Example sentences of "problem be that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is that the Labour party dodges all the important European issues because its conversion to the EC is not so much skin deep as ruled purely by expediency . |
| 2 | The only problem is that the Soviet side insists there is nothing new . |
| 3 | The problem is that the additional task has sometimes been found to facilitate performance in the visual field opposite the supposedly activated hemisphere and in other cases has been found to impair performance . |
| 4 | The problem is that the additional functionality provided by Unix vendors — the bells and whistles which differentiate and position their products in the market — all require further APIs , rendering different Unix implementations incompatible in certain areas . |
| 5 | The problem is that the European convention only really gives expression to traditional liberal and democratic freedoms bearing on such things as freedom of association , speech , belief , the press , and so on . |
| 6 | He says one problem is that the new scheme for support from the DOT involves putting packages together that must cost at least £2 million and it 's quite hard to find a package of cycle-ways that actually cost that much ! |
| 7 | The only problem is that the first time you do it for each project if it 's a ne if it 's a an old project , then we are going to have to put something in the field which summarizes the total remit for the whole of the group to date . |
| 8 | The problem is that the second question can not be answered until Washington comes up with a consensus on the first . |
| 9 | The problem is that the vast majority of stand alone fax machines are set up to send faxes in low resolution . |
| 10 | The problem is that the early lists of historic buildings were done at such a pace that they had to be assessed largely on the basis of their exteriors . |
| 11 | The problem is that the abysmal ignorance of science in Britain , especially among the educated classes , leads to a complete inability to assess developments . |
| 12 | The problem is that the massive increase in objective culture has not been appropriated by the subject in such a way that material goods become the instrument of the subject 's self-development through the sublation of its own projections ; instead , the subject confronts the world of material goods as an alien sphere . |
| 13 | The industrial equivalent of fiddling while Rome burns is to spend hours of internal management time arguing about the allocation of costs between departments or divisions , when the real problem is that the whole cost of the operation is too high . |
| 14 | A further problem is that the governing authority of quangos often consists of a board or council . |
| 15 | Possibly the main problem is that the Keynesian model is only short-term and in the short-run , it is not always easy to predict the effects of policy changes , and the management of the economy , therefore , may become very erratic . |
| 16 | the problem is that the radioactive material has a half life of about thirty years … this means that it 'll be three decades before the material becomes half as radioactive as when it was first leaked … and a century before it is safe to humans . |
| 17 | But the problem is that the last year has been a nightmare , because you 're probably on a two or three week turnaround in current affairs . |
| 18 | Well actually I think your quite right , but I think the problem is that the older reader reads it for escapism and enjoyment , its , its fun , but I think the younger reader reads it and thinks that 's what life is should be like and that 's when the trouble starts . |
| 19 | ‘ The problem is that the missing person was going to marry a junior Treasury Minister . ’ |
| 20 | The main problem is that the stored sound can be lost when the thin layer of aluminium which coats a CD 's plastic surface is oxidised , losing its ability to reflect laser light . |
| 21 | Thus , if the original problem was that the monetary sector as a whole was critically short of base money , then the attempt by individual banks to improve their own position by raising interest rates will be self-defeating . |
| 22 | The problem was that the whole thing had become so complex — it was n't only what he was going to do now but there was the stuff back at the club , there was Ashdown and what he knew , there was the whole sorry business of his suspension and the charges against him … taken one piece at a time it seemed bad enough , but taken all together it was far too much for his mind to handle . |
| 23 | The problem was that the cultural experience offered by an education in science and technology was in practice a completely different kind of experience . |
| 24 | One general problem was that the very number of international organisations had divided the democracies and had created several different Western Europes . |
| 25 | The only problem was that the big men in Formula One were not delegated at the Plenary Conference of FISA and so did not have a vote . |
| 26 | The main problem was that the socio-political implications of scientific and technological change were not thought through thoroughly . |
| 27 | The new initiatives of the left made a start by identifying strategic sectors of the economy in which to intervene , rather than adopting a blanket approach to all firms in their area — but the problem was that the local authorities were still geographically limited . |