Example sentences of "[adj] cause [prep] the trouble " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The real cause of the trouble is , that parents and teachers always pass on to us , as children , what they themselves have been told , and this has been going on for hundreds , or even thousands of years .
3 My information was that the real cause of the trouble there was a man called Jefferson .
4 You can only carry out remedial action one step at a time , so you must start by removing the primary cause of the trouble , and that is the polluted water .
5 And though I am well aware that you , Kim , are the main cause of the trouble I have no alternative but to punish all three of you . "
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