Example sentences of "the problem " in BNC.

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1 Despite the fact that we do n't hear so much about AIDS these days the problems are increasing .
2 These short studies are in part historical , but partly art criticism ; the study of Leinberger is particularly relevant , as it comments both on an encounter with a sculpture and the problems of reading about it .
3 A painter himself , he was attracted to the problems he believed that Cézanne had faced and solved in composition and technique .
4 By now you will have made a definite decision to become an actor — no matter what the problems or obstacles .
5 But , of course , the problems that arise out of this interpretation are twofold .
6 We will have to meet and discuss some of the problems .
7 The slower the better , he wrote , since one of the problems is the speed with which it could all be over .
8 the problems of writing a script from the writer 's point of view .
9 It is a realistic human drama focusing on the problems faced by these very ‘ special ’ police officers ’ .
10 Also — and I 'm quite prepared to admit this — because of all the problems I was having trying to find work , just at that moment I really did n't want the bother of hunting for a new home .
11 Cope with a slope If you 've got the inclination , she 's got the advice ; Pippa Greenwood gives a new and refreshing slant on overcoming the problems of a sloping garden .
12 One of the problems with a sloping garden is that it may be overlooked by many other houses .
13 Puzzling pines and poorly potatoes are just a couple of the problems to be solved by our team of BBC experts this month
14 Think about the problems
15 With many aspects of flying , we need to have reached a certain stage or standard to be able to appreciate the problems , or to understand and take in the facts .
16 However , they can be demonstrated and tried at height to get the idea and to see the problems which can arise if they are not neatly executed .
17 Although considerable effort has been made to develop an automatic release for the towplane , the problems are not as simple as they might at first seem and so far no really satisfactory technical answer has been found .
18 Because I became aware of the problems when I first came into gliding , I wrote a booklet on the subject , called Sub-Gravity Sensations and Gliding Accidents ( available from the BGA in the UK and SSA in the USA ) .
19 They illustrate some of the problems the policeman/anthropologist faces when he sets out to describe and interpret police culture , for he must — if the ethnography is to count — reveal hidden aspects of the relationships of power which are an integral aspect of this institution of state .
20 He spoke revealingly about the problems he had had with jurisprudence , bemoaning the fact that it was ambivalent and undefined , concerned primarily with the ambiguity which sustains the anthropologist by revealing the centralities of a system : ‘ it was all grey areas ; no black and white certainties or decisions ; no precedent or case law giving the definitive interpretation ’ .
21 Such an insider 's account will therefore hopefully achieve the ‘ finer grain and detail ’ MacDonald ( 1987 ) demanded of postmodern ‘ anthropology at home ’ , while ‘ practical mastery ’ of the ethnographic field should reduce the problems faced by McCabe and Sutcliffe ( 1978 ) , who set out to pursue participant observation on the police and found that ‘ it would be necessary for anyone wishing to fully understand the process of policing to take into account the difficulties in gaining access and an understanding of just what was going on ’ .
22 In such a world , the easy resolution of the ethical dilemma remains problematic , for as Anne Akeroyd ( 1984 : 134 ) recognizes ‘ there is not , nor ever likely to be any definitive agreement about the nature of either the problems or solutions [ facing the social scientist and the question of ethics ] ’ .
23 on more than one occasion … senior ranking officers have made no bones about the fact that they attribute many of the problems of contemporary police work to the pernicious influence of the media and sociology !
24 I had discussed the problems of insider analysis with him at a 1988 Police Conference , where he described how , on return to his force after his undergraduate degree , he had asked for permission to publish research material .
25 Two books in the recent past ( Pope and Weiner 1981 and Thackrah 1985 ) both contain veiled indications of the problems these civil service academics encounter when they write about the police .
26 Once the semantics of police experience were revealed , I had to live with the problems experienced by both Castenada and Favret-Saada , although I demur from casting myself into their intellectual companionship .
27 Anthropology has played a significant part in illustrating ways in which symbolic use is made of the body to make statements about the condition of society itself ( Mauss 1935 , Douglas 1973 , Blacking 1977 , etc. ) , and hair became an apposite symbolic indicator of the problems the forces of control were faced with at this time .
28 Understood thus it avoids the questions ( and therefore the problems ) , which Leonard nowhere addresses : such as the historicity , canonicity and the like of the world-faiths — to his mind a species of academic involvement with which he was not interested and of which he was even disdainful .
29 Paradoxically , associationism is anathema to representational theorists like Fodor ; and Fodor criticizes connectionism ( see Chapter 7 ) for inheriting all the problems of associationism .
30 The problems which these and other patients suffer can mostly be explained in terms of detailed functional models of face processing such as that proposed by Bruce and Young ( 1986 ) , in the same way that patients ' different reading problems could be explained by Coltheart ( 1985 ) .
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