Example sentences of "[prep] the trouble " in BNC.
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| 31 | Make no mistake , Wright 's short fuse is a serious business and if Graham is to lose a top player through suspension , on top of all the headlines on his ill-discipline , the Arsenal manager may soon wonder if he is worth the trouble . |
| 32 | But for anyone contemplating a similar project , it was no more difficult than many domestic-type woodworking exercises , and well worth the trouble . , |
| 33 | One reason for this resistance might be the common idea that language is ‘ trivial ’ , so linguistic reforms are not worth the trouble they cause . |
| 34 | I did not know enough about painting to recognise it , or even guess at its value , but in the present-day crazy art market even a relatively modern painting might well be very valuable , and this one was apparently worth the trouble and risk that Ewen Mackay had taken . |
| 35 | With roses that are normally grown on their own roots , propagating your own by cuttings is quite feasible , but with H.T.s , many Floribundas and those which are budded and grafted , apart from the fun it is not worth the trouble . |
| 36 | The total penalty , then , was scarcely worth the trouble and cost involved in Mr Hunte 's consultations with senior ICC officials , conciliators all , it seems . |
| 37 | Quill pens , properly cut and ready to use , are difficult to obtain but worth the trouble if you want to make good ink drawings . |
| 38 | A more general definition of resistance valid for varying cross-sections may be easily arrived at , but it is hardly worth the trouble . |
| 39 | Biddy said gently , ‘ She may not be worth the trouble , Pip . ’ |
| 40 | She had planted some runner beans in the patch of the old vegetable garden he had dug earlier ; they were flowering energetically and seemed to have been worth the trouble . |
| 41 | So then the teachers think if he is like that he 's not worth the trouble . |
| 42 | And by then , surely , it would not be worth the trouble . |
| 43 | And do you think it would be worth the trouble ? |
| 44 | One foreign ministry clerk in the early years of the twentieth century " soon decided that it was not worth the trouble to go to the office to sleep when I could sleep more comfortably in my own bed or pass my time in more interesting or more amusing tasks " , while an Italian ambassador is said to have spent only fifteen days of a year in residence in a post which he disliked . |
| 45 | This may provide calmer sailing but is it worth the trouble ? |
| 46 | I do not suppose that in every case it would be worth the trouble that would be caused to the taxing authorities if they were to inquire into every deposit account and find if the interest had been increased , unless it had been increased by a large amount . |
| 47 | Penry was a mature , proud man who obviously no longer thought it worth the trouble to cultivate a relationship with someone as jealous and unreasonable as Leonora Fox , spinster of the parish of Chastlecombe . |
| 48 | After the trouble the Amateur Rowing Association decided to restyle Chuter 's job as performance director and to advertise the post . |
| 49 | After the trouble with the coal , Peter was afraid of seeing the Station Master again . |
| 50 | West Brom were then safe and were not too bothered about letting Stoke beat them to send Leeds down after the trouble that Leeds fans had caused at the Hawthorns . |
| 51 | Part of the trouble with Harwich is it 's neither one thing nor the other . ’ |
| 52 | After the hearing in the court Alison Draper , who lives near the station , said : ‘ Nearly all the people here are against the festival because of the trouble we had to put up with last year . |
| 53 | The FA made Birmingham 's away matches all-ticket after trouble at Crystal Palace last season and Chief Supt Kenneth McKay , head of Blackpool police , said fans without tickets caused most of the trouble . |
| 54 | Mr Roskha said of the trouble in Kishinyev : ‘ Several thousand people from the Popular Front and other groups broke through cordons of police and climbed on to the tanks and armoured personnel carriers , waving banners and chanting slogans . |
| 55 | In strategic terms the England manager , who does not have a Gerson or Pele to bail his team out of the trouble caused by such indiscretions , was right , but if you drive the idiosyncrasies out of football altogether what is left can be grey indeed , which is what one finds a little disconcerting about the present Brazilian side . |
| 56 | Part of the trouble stemmed from a dislike of Sandys ' refusal to heed professional advice , and from his propensity for allowing the senior civil servants in the Ministry of Defence to usurp the powers that properly belonged to the Chiefs of Staff . |
| 57 | The continuing bail-out of the FSLC , the FDIC 's counterpart for the savings-and-loan industry , shows the scale of the trouble . |
| 58 | For instance , part of the trouble in the clean-air example is that nobody owns the air ; if somebody did , polluters would not be able to dirty it with impunity . |
| 59 | Shrewdly , in view of the trouble such ambitions were to cause her successors , the queen turned Bradley down . |
| 60 | The drink had something to do with it , no doubt , but lack of a decent woman in his house was the real cause of the trouble . |