Example sentences of "[adj] problem [is] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My real problem is dear Adolph 's collection , ’ she said . |
| 2 | The real problem is disabled people 's exclusion from many areas of social life . |
| 3 | An additional problem is that acid deposition reduces calcium concentrations and mobilizes toxic metals , especially aluminium , and this can be an important factor contributing to fish mortality . |
| 4 | The great problem is that evaluation focuses upon outcomes rather than processes , and this bias is given increased emphasis in the context of National Curriculum assessment arrangements . |
| 5 | The attraction of connectionism for the present problem is that understanding is based upon continuously checking what is read against background knowledge , using a large number of constraints to guide the process . |
| 6 | The traditional problem is that abandonment in many cases means that the investment to date may have been totally wasted , so there is a motivation to keep going . |
| 7 | Another frequent problem is that brood mares are often brought in from the paddock about a month before the horse is due to foal , and are put in a little paddock next to the owner 's house so that ‘ an eye can be kept on her . ’ |
| 8 | The second practical problem is regulatory capture . |
| 9 | But the essential problem is that nation states no longer have the capacity to manage ‘ their ’ economies , the main movers of which have long since become transnational corporations . |
| 10 | A sociological problem is any aspect of social life that needs explaining . |
| 11 | A second , related problem is that business ethics has mostly concerned itself with grand theorising , trying to answer questions such as ‘ Is capitalism ethically justifiable ? ’ and ‘ Can a profitable business ever be ethical ? ’ . |
| 12 | The other problem is that part of the radiation dose which induces the TL signal is from the environment the object has been kept in , and the precise storage history over the lifetime of most antiquities is not known . |
| 13 | The other problem is that Labour is not interested either in reforming the political process very radically to make it more effective in protecting citizens . |
| 14 | The other problem is that team listings may continue to be displayed in numerical rather than positional order for which there is no set convention since the days of 2–3-5 . |
| 15 | My other problem is brown algae . |
| 16 | The second underlying problem is unexpected company collapses , which are popularly assumed to indicate audit failures . |
| 17 | Apart from evaporation ( unlikely except in an unoccupied house in hot weather ) , the main problem is that water can be ‘ siphoned ’ or sucked out of traps if the system has not been designed properly to avoid pipes running ‘ full ’ and thus causing suction at the trap . |
| 18 | Their main problem is that food is not absorbed from the gut properly . |
| 19 | the main problem is low response rate . |
| 20 | In oil , the main problem is administrative disruption following last June 's merger of the oil and gas industries and the switch to greater financial autonomy for individual production units , coupled with intended massive cutbacks in capital investment plans as the government seeks to balance its own books . |
| 21 | And that the main problem is those councillors who are concerned about it , and |