Example sentences of "[adj] problem is that [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A further problem is that the governing authority of quangos often consists of a board or council .
2 Another problem is that the prosperous middle classes — who pay high marginal income tax rates themselves — exaggerate the importance that taxation plays in most people 's family budgets .
3 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 .
4 The second problem is that a lax competition policy might be used by a member state as a substitute for trade policy or industrial policy , to protect domestic producers or to promote export sectors .
5 The second problem is that the complex multi-causal nature of drug use makes it difficult to identify what particular combinations of factors make people likely to use heroin , and changes in these causal variables could increase the size of the potential user population .
6 The central problem is that a political party is ill-equipped to debate policy or philosophy because unity , not intellectual openness , is its highest virtue .
7 As Prime Minister , Rajiv Gandhi of India has pointed out the real practical problem is that the rich will evade very high rates of tax .
8 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 !
9 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 .
10 The only problem is that the Soviet side insists there is nothing new .
11 The only problem is that the Dutch have not really been very good at the game since Dr Euwe retired .
12 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 .
13 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 .
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