Example sentences of "[verb] to the trouble " in BNC.
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| 1 | I taught for 29 years at a boy 's school and I was very aware of young people who are now serving prison sentences for crimes relating to the troubles . |
| 2 | I have you and all at your magazine to thank for your support , but listening to the troubles of fishkeepers on the telephone and when meeting them over the last twelve months I am left in no doubt that there is a vast array of undetectable contaminants in our tapwater , apart from just chlorine , which consistently depress fish condition and render them less able to resist stress and infection . |
| 3 | Well , that tie broke and my trousers kept coming down ; and that added to the trouble . |
| 4 | On the M forty , between junctions four and five , that 's between High Wycombe and Stokenchurch , there are two narrow lanes running in both directions and there 's , er added to the trouble , there 's a contraflow at Boulter End with single-line traffic running both ways . |
| 5 | And , further , in areas like Easton , where there is very little crime related to the troubles , the police do not on the whole develop the attitude that law and order is a battle between the RUC and Catholics . |
| 6 | But inasmuch as these two chapters show that routine policing exists in the province , they are useful as a corrective to the folk model of policing in Northern Ireland , which assumes that all policing is related to the troubles ; that police officers have been brutalized as a result of their baton guns , face masks , and riot shields ; and that they know or prefer no other mode of police work . |
| 7 | In particular it challenges a prevalent tendency to compartmentalise the study of ‘ abnormal ’ issues ( that is , those related to the troubles ) from ‘ normal ’ issues of socio-economic change . |
| 8 | The landlord Alec Crossley kept an orderly house and his buxom blonde wife Grace was always jolly and invariably found time to listen to the troubles of her customers , even when she was hard put to it behind the counter . |
| 9 | The main problem is that the cost of most new resistors and capacitors is now so low that it is barely worthwhile going to the trouble of removing and testing them . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It 's even worth going to the trouble of sending your own System file of font suitcases . |
| 12 | At the end of the sixth book of The Faerie Queene , Spenser alludes to the troubles some of his earlier work has caused through slanders which provoked ‘ a mighty Peres displeasure ’ . |
| 13 | While ‘ Flags & Emblems ’ generally deals with terrorism and social injustice in far broader terms , a couple of the songs still refer to the troubles . |
| 14 | They will examine the social importance of journalists ' work over the last 25 years , particularly with regards to the Troubles . |
| 15 | One can only hope that policy-makers ( and knee-jerk media pundits ) will take to the trouble to read beyond the title . |
| 16 | My own guess is that there was no significant demand for free condoms ; nobody is going to go to the trouble of collecting free condoms who would not be prepared to buy them for himself . |
| 17 | From this point onwards it was entirely unnecessary for a testator to go to the trouble of writing a general damnatio in his will . |
| 18 | Why do the Continent 's environmentalists , unlike the British or American , need to go to the trouble and expense of political parties at all ? |
| 19 | It may be asked why it was necessary to go to the trouble of carving a model which by all accounts may only have been used once , when the same procedure , in fine day would produce a mould directly . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In both these cases the old plates made the necessary points , and there was no need to go to the trouble and expense of getting new ones . |
| 23 | It would be a waste of time actually to go to the trouble of filling the space itself with blanks . |
| 24 | Interesting that Bill 's going to go to the trouble of taking out windows putting in |
| 25 | WHEN Ron Dennis , the managing director of McLaren International , goes to the trouble of stressing that his team intend to continue giving Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost impartial treatment during the final two races , such a commendably even-handed approach immediately arouses suspicion in a sport governed by an organisation which is not exactly noted for its equitable methods . |
| 26 | The Epitome or Gaius ' Institutes still distinguishes between legacies and trusts , and even goes to the trouble of explaining what the difference is . |
| 27 | No one goes to the trouble to dress up compliance so elaborately . |
| 28 | I once went to the trouble of having a pair made in the finest white doeskin but fortunately I have now outgrown such extravagances in much the same way that I have outgrown the petty conversations and banal posturings of those who frequent literary gatherings or , worse , television studio canteens . |
| 29 | William Houstoun went to the trouble of making drawings in the West Indies , which he bequeathed to Philip Miller and from these Sir Joseph Banks published the engravings as Reliquiae Houstounianae ( 1781 ) . |
| 30 | If correct , this hypothesis might explain why these people so many thousands of years ago went to the trouble and danger of penetrating so deeply into the cave for this purpose . |