Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the trouble " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their occupational duty , as they saw it , was equally clear-sufficient numbers and mobile reserves for the trouble spots . |
| 2 | He had no illusions about the trouble she was in . |
| 3 | Wood is not a material which suffers fools gladly and a great deal of the trouble with wooden aeroplanes was due to wooden people . |
| 4 | But this dichotomy is , itself , a great deal of the trouble in St Ann 's . |
| 5 | Nobel made a loss of SKr 1500m during the first 8 months of 1991 , as a result of the troubles . |
| 6 | Not only was it unsightly , but it was also a constant and unhappy reminder of Garrison 's misfortunes as a result of the troubles . |
| 7 | I was afraid to go back home for fear of the trouble I 'd be in from Mum . |
| 8 | With the outbreak of the Troubles in the late 60s , the NILP came under increasing pressure from the rival sectarian political camps . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Or will he by then be associated in the public mind with the troubles of the economy ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Killion cackled with pleasure at the trouble he was causing . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Part of the trouble with Harwich is it 's neither one thing nor the other . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Mario and I agreed during that long flight that part of the trouble had to be media coverage . |
| 18 | That was part of the trouble , that was how it was that events were set in motion . |
| 19 | That 's part of the trouble , part of why he is so lonely , but she just looked at the carpet in silence , at the dark place where Luke had once spilled black coffee . |
| 20 | Maybe part of the trouble is also Raymond Leppard 's handling of the orchestral accompaniment , the quavers of which chug along in too solid and inflexible a manner . |
| 21 | A large part of the trouble lay in the overlapping and by no means clearly defined responsibilities for operations in Vietnam between US forces operating in support of the Chinese in the ‘ China Theater ’ , and Southeast Asia Command : more particularly , the disagreements between the US General Wedemeyer and Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten . |
| 22 | Sri Lanka part of the trouble is the civil war . |
| 23 | That was n't any comfort ; part of the trouble , a big part , was that she could sympathise with him . |
| 24 | That 's part of the trouble . |
| 25 | Part of the trouble was that the information which colleges needed for their own purpose was on a scale different from that which was called for by local authorities and by the DES . |
| 26 | In fact , that was part of the trouble , more often than not it is the protestations and evasions of a witness which tell most about him . |
| 27 | That was part of the trouble , of course : she was just so aware of him . |
| 28 | Part of the trouble lay in the German command 's ruthless system of keeping divisions in the line over lengthy periods , constantly topping up the losses with new replacements . |
| 29 | The minority party , realising that they could take advantage of the troubles , persuaded the Duke of Cumberland to issue a warrant against three of the former Councillors for treason and they were committed to Perth prison . |
| 30 | It was plain enough now , from the glance he shot in the general direction of the three of them and the jeep , that so far as he was concerned they were just part and parcel of the trouble generated by the city , the days he had to spend queuing in the tax office , the months he had spent shut up in the squalid , over-crowded prison , the endless haggling with shopkeepers , the disappearance of his good-for-nothing son . |