Example sentences of "the trouble of " in BNC.
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| 31 | So you can take this even further if you want , by saying : why go to the trouble of using your hands at all ? |
| 32 | Given full rein to run as far as they want , the plants are living very well and do n't feel in any particular danger , so there is no need for them to waste energy by perpetuating the species and going to the trouble of producing flower and setting seed . |
| 33 | At any rate , it was difficult to see that the FAA had any good reason not to implement the very important recommendations made by their own US investigating authority , the NTSB , after the Windsor accident , especially as the RLD had gone to the trouble of flying to Los Angeles to make their point . |
| 34 | This time there was plenty of evidence that could have saved him the trouble of the trip . |
| 35 | In case Lord Milton missed the importance of making this change , Campbell took the trouble of repeating the request three days after first suggesting it , which was clearly long before the judge could have hoped to arrange such an alteration . |
| 36 | Numerous trials have evaluated the various procedures performed during pregnancy and labour ( Iain Chalmers has even gone to the trouble of collating them ) but very few of these ideas have changed obstetric practice . |
| 37 | The high standards aimed at in such a sifting process are important if we want teachers to go to the trouble of organizing the use of our materials in their teaching . |
| 38 | Besides , as field staff said , ‘ you can always throw it away later ’ if the pollution turns out to be unimportant and the officer wants to avoid the trouble of processing , that is , bureaucratically accounting for , his sample . |
| 39 | Although the Chinese transformed rhinoceros horn into forms of customary refinement , it seems unlikely that they went to the trouble of removing agglutinated masses of hair from rhinoceros snouts and lavishing such skill on them for purely aesthetic reasons . |
| 40 | My aunt was the one who went to all the trouble of trying to get me out of the Soviet Union . ’ |
| 41 | I knew that from day one , and would n't take the trouble of working and saving for them . |
| 42 | You might then find that having gone to the trouble of preparing a good speech and a joke just in case , you decide that you might as well give the speech anyway ! |
| 43 | Since he wanted to delay the ceremony , but did n't want to go to the trouble of desecrating any graves , he only had one option . |
| 44 | " The Meeting Considering that the Island is in a backward state of Cultivation , have Resolved as an Improvement that each occupier of a 4d. land in Tillage over the whole Island shall sow in the ensuing Spring 2 pecks of Peas & Beans , and for enabling them to have proper Seed they now request that Shawfield will take the trouble of sending a Cargo of Peas & Beans to the Island in proper time … " |
| 45 | It 's even worth going to the trouble of sending your own System file of font suitcases . |
| 46 | ‘ Why on earth do you think Syl went to all the trouble of making her a separate kitchen ? ’ |
| 47 | ‘ If she 's dead , ’ said Sam , ‘ she 's not going to mind much about anything , and anyway , if she went to all the trouble of making that tape in the first place , she 's obviously not bothered about leaving it lying around . |
| 48 | If you do n't want to go to all the trouble of making curtains yourself , Rectella has a huge range of ready-made curtains and operates a made-to-measure service through its nationwide stockists . |
| 49 | Why you would n't break a window to break a window , why you 'd go to the trouble of using a glass cutter |
| 50 | " He could have given me a ticking off , considering that he 'd gone to the trouble of telling me that you were coming . |
| 51 | And this bloke called Haigh that sent his clothes in to the model-maker so 's they would n't have the trouble of faking them . |
| 52 | At least that way the remaining infants would be deloused , taught to read and write , fed , and Mrs Rattrie , by being separated from her husband — since paupers were not allowed to breed — would have been spared the trouble of having any more . |
| 53 | It would be a waste of time actually to go to the trouble of filling the space itself with blanks . |
| 54 | They rescued me from my predicament , and saved me the trouble of rewriting the entire chapter . |
| 55 | Rather more interesting , however , to Julia than either Ian 's or Canon Wheeler 's vision for the Church was the very puzzling question of why , when he invariably summoned his subordinates to come to him by phone , Wheeler had today put himself to the trouble of walking up a back staircase to the servants ' quarters ? |
| 56 | ‘ Given that an angry parent might just conceivably break Gray 's neck for , as you put it , touching up his youngster , why should he go to the trouble of severing the head , and then putting it in the Cathedral font ? |
| 57 | And the trouble of cutting it up ! |
| 58 | He had actually taken the trouble of ruling them out for all his business contacts as well . |
| 59 | She was being carried at considerably over the legal speed-limit towards an unknown destination — and quite possibly what a Victorian heroine would have regarded as a ‘ fate worse than death ’ , since she could hardly imagine that Luke had gone to the trouble of virtually kidnapping her in order to spend a quiet weekend playing Scrabble . |
| 60 | ‘ Why did you go to the trouble of hiring me if what you wanted were the same drab old styles of before ? ’ |