Example sentences of "[prep] the trouble [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Penry was a mature , proud man who obviously no longer thought it worth the trouble to cultivate a relationship with someone as jealous and unreasonable as Leonora Fox , spinster of the parish of Chastlecombe . |
| 2 | One foreign ministry clerk in the early years of the twentieth century " soon decided that it was not worth the trouble to go to the office to sleep when I could sleep more comfortably in my own bed or pass my time in more interesting or more amusing tasks " , while an Italian ambassador is said to have spent only fifteen days of a year in residence in a post which he disliked . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At a preliminary meeting of the British commanders Slim bluntly observed that ‘ the root of the trouble lay in the fact that the Burmese distrusted us ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In strategic terms the England manager , who does not have a Gerson or Pele to bail his team out of the trouble caused by such indiscretions , was right , but if you drive the idiosyncrasies out of football altogether what is left can be grey indeed , which is what one finds a little disconcerting about the present Brazilian side . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mario and I agreed during that long flight that part of the trouble had to be media coverage . |
| 9 | For him , the inability to locate the source of the trouble resulted in unmethodical chaos . |
| 10 | you know talking to five , you know , people who 've done their projects , they 've said some of the trouble going out |
| 11 | The root of the trouble lies in the fact that no segment of a polycyclic river has a perfectly smooth concave profile , so that the formula gives a curve with an approximate fit . |
| 12 | The worst of the trouble occurred in Bihar , a state with a long record of political violence . |
| 13 | Most of the trouble appeared to be centred on the Cocody and Yopougon campuses of Abidjan university where , on the night of May 17-18 , troops stormed student accommodation . |
| 14 | Cos this is where most of the trouble comes from , when the riots are on , there 's people come out of the flats to join the riots . |
| 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 | Warnings from western diplomats that he would ‘ not only be imprisoned but perhaps killed ’ failed to deter him , despite the trouble encountered on his way out of Malawi . |
| 17 | The new word quickly settled down , however , as a regular pattern began to emerge in the trouble associated with the London Hooligans . |
| 18 | More importantly , it 's er conveys to the client that we care about quality , that we 've gone to the trouble to set up procedures which make our product as good as it possibly can be . |
| 19 | No one goes to the trouble to dress up compliance so elaborately . |
| 20 | It was better to let it rot out on the field then go to the trouble to carry it wet because it would only rot or become mouldy and absolutely useless . |
| 21 | ‘ No-one would go to the trouble to devise such an imposture , and kill at least once , probably twice , to maintain it , just for the possibility of a few snippets of military information . |
| 22 | Why , when animal teeth were available and were in fact used for necklaces by the simple process of perforating their roots , did men go to the trouble to carve beads from solid ivory ? |
| 23 | One can only hope that policy-makers ( and knee-jerk media pundits ) will take to the trouble to read beyond the title . |