Example sentences of "difficulty is that [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 One of the difficulties is that the Angolan understanding of the agreement reached in June was that Mr Savimbi should not remain in Angola while elections are held , though he might return later .
2 The difficulty is that a like conditional ( derived from the independent conditional ( 6 ) also set out in 1.3 ) may well be true of b .
3 The first and most obvious difficulty is that a three-dimensional object can not fit satisfactorily on to a flat page .
4 Another difficulty is that a third of Asian patients disappeared from contact with services , and although this was not considered statistically significant , in percentage terms they had the highest attrition rate of the three groups .
5 A further difficulty is that the current legislation provides no means for combating the growth of the tacit or informal collusion which has come to replace the formal agreements of earlier years .
6 A bigger difficulty is that the premature announcement of merger talks may tempt other firms into bidding for one or both .
7 The difficulty is that the two contributions made opposite points .
8 A major difficulty is that the inert gases account for only a small fraction of the volatiles known at the surfaces and in the atmospheres of the three planets , where the volatiles almost entirely consist of CO 2 , H 2 O , N 2 and O 2 , or of compounds derived from them such as carbonates , hydroxy-silicates and nitrates .
9 The main difficulty is that the non-business sector is not a homogeneous group of organizations .
10 Another difficulty is that the geological maps of Britain are out of date .
11 Part of the difficulty is that the same environmental factors which predispose children to middle-ear infections may contribute independently to developmental delay .
12 One experimental difficulty is that the solar corona has a finite refractive index ( varying as 1/ ( frequency ) 2 ) and the effect of the corona is to increase the delay .
13 Our difficulty is that the contractual position is clearer than unfair dismissal law so employers can sometimes , though by no means always , achieve the same result by issuing notices of dismissal and offering new contracts of employment .
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