Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [prep] the trouble " in BNC.

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1 With the outbreak of the Troubles in the late 60s , the NILP came under increasing pressure from the rival sectarian political camps .
2 As play was held up Bucknor strolled over to the scene of the trouble and appealed for calm .
3 Another process is sometimes adopted for getting rid of the sediment without the trouble of decanting in this mode ; the bottles are reserved in a frame proper for the purpose , for a certain number of days , so as to permit the foulness to fall into the neck ; while in this position , the cork is dexterously withdrawn and that portion of the wine that is foul , allowed to escape , after which the bottle is filled with clear wine , permanently corked and secured with wire .
4 That had been the beginning of the trouble , because her mother had made her swear solemnly , although she was only seven , that she was innocent of all filthiness , and although she had sworn , she knew deep down in her heart that she was n't .
5 Since the start of the Troubles , a number of loyalist trade unionists had tried to create a province-wide organization of unionist workers and by late 1973 the plans of men such as Billy Kelly , a power workers ' shop steward , Billy Hull , ex-Northern Ireland Labour Party , and Hugh Petrie , a precision engineer from Shorts , were sufficiently advanced for them to propose to the loyalist politicians that the province could be brought to a halt by a strike .
6 Disagreement about the rate at which parents let go is usually the root of the trouble .
7 Parents may jump to the conclusion that the fact of being adopted is the root of the trouble when that has nothing to do with the case .
8 and hinted that it would probably be a good idea if the Rector of St. Mary 's , the Vicar of St. Peter 's , and Mr. John Meridyth ( another Grammar School Visitor from the 1850s ) , who were considered to be at the root of the trouble , were not appointed Trustees .
9 At a preliminary meeting of the British commanders Slim bluntly observed that ‘ the root of the trouble lay in the fact that the Burmese distrusted us ’ .
10 The root of the trouble lies in the fact that no segment of a polycyclic river has a perfectly smooth concave profile , so that the formula gives a curve with an approximate fit .
11 I think she 'd become a habit with him , if you know what I mean — and of course she was at the root of the trouble between Silas and me . ’
12 The consensus along the corridor was that Yussuf 's wife was all right really apart from her inability to produce any children and that this was the root of the trouble .
13 Er the trouble about the trouble with the fifties and er actually it was a very good programme er for reminiscing about the fifties .
14 The uprising was put down by the action of the police and the army , and an unknown number of people were killed , among them Muhammadu Marwa Maitatsine , leader of the fanatical sect which was at the centre of the trouble .
15 The panel on page 16 conveys something of the scale of the troubles .
16 The continuing bail-out of the FSLC , the FDIC 's counterpart for the savings-and-loan industry , shows the scale of the trouble .
17 At the height of the troubles in 1970 , the Irish Army brought field hospitals to the border ready for refugees from Ulster .
18 At the height of the troubles the hospital was seeing 100 cases of major trauma a day .
19 No side has won successive grand slams since Wavell Wakefield 's England of 1924 , though it is worth recalling that what has become known as the Irish Problem deprived Wales in Barry John 's farewell year , 1972 ; they won handsomely against England , France and Scotland but like the Scots dared not venture to Dublin at the height of The Troubles .
20 If you begin to feel better , then it is likely that hyperventilation is the cause of the trouble .
21 If you have cut out more than two or three foods , and your baby gets better , then you will probably wish to test the foods to see which ones were the cause of the trouble — often it will just be one food .
22 If he is the cause of the trouble , then it sounds very much like territoriality , not food-seeking ; a territorial cichlid will rarely attack much smaller fish , especially non-cichlids , but will go for territory contestants , viz other cichlids and especially conspecifics .
23 I thought the leg might have been broken , but the cause of the trouble is a shot up here . ’
24 Tribunal chairman Lionel Brown said : ‘ The cause of the trouble is free alcohol .
25 Tribunal chairman Mr Brown said : ‘ The cause of the trouble is free alcohol if people had to pay for it they would not drink so much . ’
26 There is far less of the mystification which can be attributed to the account of the troubles in Guerrillas : what we get is the mysterious politics of forest and township as observed by an outsider , by an African Asian who understands a good deal of what is going on .
27 By some kind of irony this was exactly the reverse of the trouble with masonry cathedrals which fell down because they turned out to be in tension when the builders held that they were in compression .
28 Livingstone said he had been at home at the time of the trouble while Hardy said he watched the disturbance , although he did not throw anything .
29 If the child gets better when certain foods are excluded , then they should be reintroduced to check that they were the source of the trouble .
30 Nicholas Winton identified the state travel agency as the source of the trouble .
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