Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [be] a problem " in BNC.
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| 1 | Getting industry to adopt new technologies has long been a problem . |
| 2 | It has always been a problem : the ghosts are n't laughing now . |
| 3 | The region has a long history of human activity ( section 3.2.1 ) , and although erosion has always been a problem it has intensified considerably in the last 100 years as deforestation has accelerated and grasslands have been degraded . |
| 4 | How we seek to describe these attitudinal variables has always been a problem , and how they can be easily harnessed to the task of language learning has still to be adequately determined . |
| 5 | The relative success of right-wing organisations , compared with left-wing ones , in recruiting among lower-class youth culture has always been a problem for left idealism . |
| 6 | Drink has always been a problem since men discovered how to distil and it is known that there were a great many small stills on the island . |
| 7 | Drink has always been a problem since men discovered how to distil and it is known that there were a great many small stills on the island . |
| 8 | To coordinate the efforts of people working in different parts of the country with different languages has always been a problem , whilst the failure to do so has tended to result in an unnecessary duplication of effort . |
| 9 | Yes , this has always been a problem , but it has become worse recently , I am afraid , because of the people who have been made redundant and who have come back from Germany . |
| 10 | This has always been a problem for heads because the structure of the service puts them in an isolated position . |
| 11 | ‘ There has always been a problem , to a degree , of anti-social behaviour . |
| 12 | Has there been has there been a problem with music on late ? |
| 13 | ‘ Mr Fallon refuses to accept there is a problem with mortgage repossessions in Darlington , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Do n't forget , there is not a rabbit warren in the land where they show sex education films and yet this has never been a problem for the rabbits of the world . |
| 15 | Until recently this has never been a problem for Fred and Beth . |
| 16 | Celibacy has never been a problem for me . ’ |
| 17 | Just how we were to get out and home once we had arrived there was a problem we still refused to think about . |
| 18 | Having decided that the rude manners and customs of an outback community ‘ are rather produced by their situation than derived from their ancestors ’ , he examines first how they regulated themselves traditionally ; then , the introduction and enforcement of the country 's general body of legislation — for instance , theft of cattle from drovers had long been a problem in the Highlands ; now their passage was growing safer . |
| 19 | Corrosion had always been a problem in the chemical industry , both in containment and in heating . |
| 20 | The whole trouble , I think , started when the districts were formed in nineteen seventy three , I think District Council to seventy seven , but it 's always been a problem . |
| 21 | It 's always been a problem has n't it ? |
| 22 | Sunday nights have always been a problem for the serious cinemagoer , since this is the night that brings out the lads whose parents do n't make them go to bed early before a fresh week at school begins . |
| 23 | Twitch bites have always been a problem , and the best answers have been to scale down tackle and bait to encourage a better bite , or to hover over the rod and attempt to strike and hit the twitch bite . |
| 24 | Mature students and those who do not receive the parental contribution towards their grant have always been a problem . |
| 25 | It 's never been a problem before . |