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

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1 What are the problems of allowing a high-priority device to interrupt the servicing of a low-priority device ?
2 In contrast , Tenon 's commercialised MachTen sits on top of MacOs and runs as an application , eliminating the problems of supporting the various Mac devices , boards and applications .
3 By concentrating on the return to the unit holder the problems of adjusting the net asset value of the fund for capital inflows and outflows may be avoided .
4 Over the centuries all the world 's religions have accumulated vast amounts of scriptures , as generation after generation struggled with the problems of defining an ever-growing variety of gods ; of endeavouring to explain the origins of the earth and the universe , ; of setting out independently the rights and wrongs of almost everything , ; of justifying caste systems and privilege by birth ; of seeking to instil a belief in an afterlife ; of explaining the complexities of simple and compound reincarnation , ; of building an hierarchy , sometimes with well-paid officers , ; of introducing rituals , rules and forms of worship , and combating ever growing scepticism until the whole world and all life would seem to be in existence solely for the purpose of providing space for this monstrous dumping ground for the products of centuries of speculative and ineffective effort .
5 While there are still reservations among orthopaedic surgeons about the problems of removing the artificial hip and the long-term stability of the coatings , many believe that using these coatings offers the potential for much longer lifetimes of the artificial joint and their use in younger patients .
6 Baker 's visit to the former Soviet Union [ see also pp. 38771-72 ] included talks on disarmament and the problems of dismantling the Soviet nuclear arsenal .
7 The order of magnitude of these transfers suggests that problems of resettling the elderly long-stay population in the community were considered too daunting .
8 But a great deal of knowledge was gleaned concerning impurity effects on the conductivity of copper ; the myriad problems of laying an undersea cable , and the terse frustrations of manufacturing one .
9 The problems of creating a strong union , as the union leadership is fully aware , remain enormous — indeed in some respects they have increased .
10 The present economic recession has highlighted the growing problems of financing an expanding education system and it has revived the debate on the contribution of education , and particularly higher education , to economic growth .
11 One should , for example , mention guild socialism which was much more concerned than Fabianism about the problems of establishing a strong , centralized bureaucracy and which promoted a pluralist theory of the state .
12 The facilities for travellers and the ever present interest of the Inca remains made this an easy city to spend time in , but the darker side of Peru 's history had found its way into the present and thus highlighted the problems of fitting a comfortable tourist face on to a Third World country .
13 The difficulty of netting in summer and early autumn relates to the problems of pushing the net stakes into the ground easily .
14 The problems of choosing an appropriate framework for any privatised natural monopoly have already been considered .
15 To overcome the problems of collecting a 24 hour urine specimen , an overnight collection was made .
16 In a farewell speech on Aug. 28 , Pöhl warned that the German economy faced a period of considerable difficulty , as rising inflation compounded the already serious problems of funding the necessary investment surge in the east of the country after unification , and as the social transfer costs in the east continued to mount .
17 Within any one society also , there are internal differences in relation to the problems of maintaining a safe environment and the particular kinds of hazards to which certain groups of people are exposed .
18 Unfortunately the practical problems of operating a large plant in Ireland were totally unrelated to the glowing words in the glossy literature , and to the enchanting phrases which slid so eloquently off the honeyed tongues of Ministers and officials .
19 The problems of calculating the total energies of such ions are by no means trivial , and important advances in techniques of calculation have been made in the process of developing satisfactory methods .
20 The urban disorders of the 1980s are the most explicit index of the deep hostility now felt by many inner-city residents towards the police , and of the problems of policing the inner city .
21 In Flight of Fancy ( pp 64 ) he grapples with the problems of building a flying machine while Informagic ( pp 72 ) finds him trapped in the workings of a giant computer .
22 Regions of the old DDR have been subsumed into the new federal states of Germany , and many of the sources are housed in what must now be called the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin , Preussischer Kulturbesitz — a name that in itself sums up the problems of uniting the two Germanies .
23 Electronic marking is particularly appropriate on large courses , since it helps avoid the problems of managing the handing-in of work .
24 The problems of learning an additional system for parents are put to one side in stressing this need for early interaction .
25 BRITAIN 'S debate on entering the exchange rate mechanism centred on the problems of tracking the German mark .
26 Not as strong as all that , however ; for if the internal difficulties were eased because the government 's hand was strengthened by the plebiscite , the problems of making the new Constitution work did not go away .
27 Caplow is aware of the problems of selling a long-lasting product ( business advisors have warned him against workwear 's long-term potential ) , although , like Roger Wade at Carhartt , he thinks the workwear brands can break out of their cult status .
28 Only the sailing types appreciated the problems of keeping the same bit of distant coast line ahead on the same point of sailing and in the same position relative to the other boats .
29 There may be problems of deciding the social class of married women , but these will have to be settled at some time .
30 In the past the doubt felt by some about the existence of great sequences of high-level eroded plateau surfaces has been reinforced by problems of explaining the possible basic causes of the vast changes in base level required .
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