Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] the troubles " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were only an hour 's drive from the front and it was quite frightening to watch the TV and see the Croatian coverage of the troubles , considerably more horrific than what we had seen on the BBC . |
| 2 | Rock ‘ n ’ rail Some months before the troubles developed in East Germany , one of the world 's more arcane organisations , the Ireland-German Democratic Friendship Society , announced plans to celebrate in Dublin the 40th birthday of their comrades ' dictatorship in the East . |
| 3 | Or will he by then be associated in the public mind with the troubles of the economy ? |
| 4 | ‘ The rallies were a spontaneous reaction to the troubles of the time and it was the first time there had been any movement like it in Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | Another commentator on the troubles of earlier centuries was Lord Curzon , later to become Viceroy of India and British Foreign Secretary . |
| 6 | It was a personal matter , and she had no intention of telling a snooty foreign doctor about the troubles she had been through with Ken Noakes from Audiology . |
| 7 | Soon he will become another statistic , the 3,045th death of the Troubles . |
| 8 | That was a real issue during the troubles in the Punjab and had a real effect on Wolverhampton . |
| 9 | This rather gloomy picture of the troubles of the daughter at home obviously does not apply in every case . |
| 10 | With contributors as widely diverse as Garret FitzGerald , Seamus Heaney , Tom Paulin and Nell McCafferty , plus a detailed day-by-day chronology of key events in the Troubles , this book — like Fortnight itself — presents some of the most informative and entertaining writing in Ireland today . |
| 11 | Like many other innocent victims of The Troubles , he was in the wrong place at the wrong time . |
| 12 | At his London press conference he attacked a Northern Irish journalist 's complaint that ‘ We 've had all those films about the troubles in the North and we 're bored with them ’ by insisting that those were the films the people needed . |
| 13 | Irony seldom works in print and this blunt appraisal of the troubles that had beset his friend was made to Nancy Collins and published in Rolling Stone some fifteen years after the Tate murders at Polanski 's rented home in Beverly Hills in August 1969 . |
| 14 | The next year brought the first indications of the troubles which were eventually to lead to the Goldsmiths ' abandonment of the School a decade later . |
| 15 | The original entries for 995 and 996 may have been lost , and it says nothing of the hostile relations which probably existed with Normandy for a time , and only hints at the troubles in the Irish Sea mentioned above . |
| 16 | Together with the Alliance Party , our sister party and the only non-sectarian political party in Northern Ireland , we believe that mutual respect , shared responsibilities and decentralised government are the only basis for a lasting solution to the troubles of Northern Ireland . |
| 17 | Paul was the three thousand and first victim of the troubles in Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | According to official figures , more than 200 women and young girls have been killed during the 23 years of the Troubles . |
| 19 | His first book , ‘ The Northern Ireland Problem ’ , co-written with Charles Carter after extensive research and published by Oxford University Press , appeared several years before the Troubles . |
| 20 | ‘ Michael Caine ’ , although disguised , is an oblique look at the troubles in Northern Ireland , and ‘ Yesterday 's Men ’ and ‘ Brand New Beat ’ chronicle a country slipping into darkness with nobody there to turn the lights back on . |
| 21 | There has never been any difficulty finding the facts in Northern Ireland — the news media comb through them relentlessly and university libraries are crammed full of academic literature on the troubles . |