Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] the problem " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if , as conservationists hope , the European Parliament addresses the problem of the administration of structural funds , it still lacks the institutional power to oversee the work of the Commission 's multiple directorates . |
| 2 | And a scaly skin solves the problem of drying out even in intense heat . |
| 3 | How seriously are British Rail treating the problem ? |
| 4 | Conventional public administration sees the problem of bureaucratic power in these terms . |
| 5 | In 1979 the Conservative Government was elected with a clear mandate to tackle the problem of excessive Union powers which was destroying the employment and the livelihood of thousands of people every week . |
| 6 | But British Telecom thinks the problems can be licked . |
| 7 | However , the very historical focus poses the problem of agency and containment in a more immediate way that demonstrates some of the dilemmas that follow from Foucault 's genealogical history . |
| 8 | Developments in electronic diaries allow the problem of retrospective recall to be tested experimentally . |
| 9 | Will my right hon. Friend consider the problem to see whether the Government can help ? |
| 10 | The French Navy passed the problem to the DGSE who at first suggested that the simplest course of action was to tow the Rainbow Warrior out to the test area . |
| 11 | Indeed , the fact that those lobbies are so much more vociferous than that for old people symbolises the problem which we have to confront : old people themselves are too accepting of the way they are viewed and described by others and others have been slow to take their part . |
| 12 | Thirdly , and most importantly for our purposes , the natural-entity theory overcame the problems of the artificiality in the case of large companies of analysing the directors ' managerial power as being derived from the contractual agreement of the shareholders . |
| 13 | My hon. Friend , who has been courteous and kind in meeting delegations led by me and by other hon. Members to discuss the problem , has pointed out from time to time that the scheme is the responsibility of the county council . |
| 14 | She said Penketh High School takes the problem of children smoking very seriously . |
| 15 | The French translation overcomes the problem by spelling out the interpretation : Nous attendimes en vain ( literally : ‘ we waited in vain ’ ) ; but loses the surprise element because it conforms to the given-plus-new pattern . |
| 16 | As the intervention system remains entirely in place , and as the Community has not decided to try to make savings by reforming the system to make it less attractive , it seemed to us to be the wrong way to tackle the problem . |
| 17 | Crondall seemed to be in need of a Pied Piper to answer the problem of an increasing rat population in a rubbish dump near the recreation ground . |
| 18 | The health and housing committee agreed to ask the North Wales Euro MP , Joe Wilson , to try to find out how other European countries tackle the problem . |
| 19 | There have been limited attempts to address the problem of third parties , for example by the International Law Commission and the International Court of Justice . |
| 20 | The settlement of the Alans near Valence may have more in common with imperial attempts to solve the problem of abandoned land , agri deserti , than with other grants to the barbarians . |
| 21 | Most significantly in Argentina , Brazil and Mexico , where the organised working classes were large and strong , longer-term strategies to forestall the problems posed by labour militancy were already being implemented . |
| 22 | We knew that there were no instant or easy solutions to overcome the problems that we faced . |
| 23 | The fitting of a few extra valves solved the problem . |
| 24 | Post-war lateral thinking solved the problem by abolishing the school , but the building survived that , too . |
| 25 | This was more to do with window dressing and the government 's need to be seen to be doing something , rather than a serious attempt to tackle the problems . |
| 26 | Throughout the post-war period the case for a high degree of centralised planning was weakening because there was no serious attempt to address the problem of an allocative mechanism which did not give free reign to market prices and collective bargaining . |
| 27 | The second step is to construct appropriate drills to overcome the problem . |
| 28 | A serious article discussed the problems of recruitment . |
| 29 | This simple set-up avoided the problem of flash reflection . |
| 30 | It is supposed that the ratio between the actual and predicted hospital mortalities , a value known as the standardised mortality ratio ( SMR ) , can be used to compare ICUs , but the following example illustrates the problem . |