Example sentences of "[prep] [art] trouble of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Teddy Boys also coexisted with compulsory military service — which is so often wheeled out as a panacea for the troubles of youth — and national service was even condemned in the 1950s as ‘ a positive adverse influence on young people ’ because of the way in which it interrupted the transition from school to work and encouraged an ‘ eat , drink and be merry ’ philosophy . |
| 2 | On the whole they had a much more restricted influence than the gentry but they occasionally emerged , as during the troubles of 1549 and the Clubmen 's riots of the 1640s , as a powerful conservative and stabilising force in county politics . |
| 3 | During the troubles of 1173–4 the inhabitants of the citadel seized the opportunity to turn their enclosure into a proper circuit of walls , a move which was probably aimed against the city rather than against ducal authority , though clearly it was taking advantage of the latter 's temporary weakness . |
| 4 | He was badly wounded in Dublin during the troubles of 1919–21 , in which he admired the technical skills of his Irish guerrilla opponents . |
| 5 | He is to learn about the troubles of his early life by interviewing the servants of the family and by submitting to the interviews of psychoanalysis . |
| 6 | ‘ No one wants to hear about the troubles of the elderly . ’ |
| 7 | When I was writing in this magazine [ October 1987 ] about the troubles of the Flow Country in Sutherland ( christened then ‘ Britain 's Last Wilderness ’ ) , I suggested that the concept tends to devalue ‘ the presence of humans in remote areas and overvalue their contribution elsewhere . ’ |
| 8 | But Henry was more concerned about the political repercussions of the advances he was making on the Continent than about the troubles of the church of Canterbury . |
| 9 | ‘ Both worrying about the troubles of the world and how to cure them , but John 's been talking to his dad about this Spanish business and other things and he 'll work things out soon . ’ |
| 10 | The squalor remained through the troubles of the Civil Wars until a new prosperity was built on the growing export of corn in the later seventeenth century . |
| 11 | Items of value , real or sentimental , are worth the trouble of proper storage . |
| 12 | Is is worth the trouble of allowing members to propose resolutions ? |
| 13 | In such cases it would be worth the trouble of introducing worms from elsewhere . |
| 14 | To give this impression would ensure shipwreck on a reef which we shall in any case be lucky to avoid , the indifference of the reader who takes it for granted that we are trying to deduce imperatives from the facts of which one ought to be aware , and assumes in advance that there has to be a flaw somewhere , hardly worth the trouble of locating , as in a new proposal for a perpetual-motion machine . |
| 15 | A commodity never difficult to find , in John-William 's experience , particularly now when the Chartist leaders , who had been locked up after the troubles of 1839 , were all out of prison again ; except for that Sheffield lad , of course , who 'd died at twenty-seven , from the hard labour he 'd been put to at Northallerton jail . |
| 16 | The psychological basis of Hitler 's popularity as a national leader standing above and outside of the troubles of everyday life , was , however , not substantially affected by these material concerns . |
| 17 | This rather gloomy picture of the troubles of the daughter at home obviously does not apply in every case . |
| 18 | Anyone inclined to question the advisability of monogamy should read of the troubles of Jacob , David and others who took more than one wife . |
| 19 | She had heard enough from the Julians to recognise in the disrepair something of the troubles of the Dersinghams . |
| 20 | That was one of the troubles of tourism : Skye needed to sit and stare to get into the soul of a place . |
| 21 | His resignation came amid sharp criticism of his handling of the troubles of the thrift industry as a whole and in particular of the collapse of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association of Irvine , California , which was currently the subject of investigation by the House banking committee . |
| 22 | Pure Class restores cars for customers in the United States , Germany and France and it seems that despite the troubles of the Jensen company itself , there 's no lack of demand for these sleek machines with their muscular 7 litre Chrysler engines . |
| 23 | Or will he by then be associated in the public mind with the troubles of the economy ? |
| 24 | The dynamic duo get away from the troubles of the world and curl up for a nap , by ffolkes , June 1954 |
| 25 | They were imagining the dead man in a beautiful distant place , far from the troubles of this world . |
| 26 | Since the troubles of 1860 , the Goldsmiths had paid the £300 a year endowment to the School but had shunned any further involvement . |
| 27 | Another process is sometimes adopted for getting rid of the sediment without the trouble of decanting in this mode ; the bottles are reserved in a frame proper for the purpose , for a certain number of days , so as to permit the foulness to fall into the neck ; while in this position , the cork is dexterously withdrawn and that portion of the wine that is foul , allowed to escape , after which the bottle is filled with clear wine , permanently corked and secured with wire . |
| 28 | Taxis are available for hire for full- or half-day excursions , and the cost for four compares very well with hiring a car for a day — without the trouble of driving yourself . |
| 29 | They came down the steps of the hotel with their Kodaks — at the Continental there was always a large number of Americans — and were immediately fallen upon by dragomans , donkey-boys and street-traders of all kinds , all offering instant picturesqueness without the trouble of having to go too far in the heat to find it . |
| 30 | 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 . |