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

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1 I do not suppose that in every case it would be worth the trouble that would be caused to the taxing authorities if they were to inquire into every deposit account and find if the interest had been increased , unless it had been increased by a large amount .
2 Quill pens , properly cut and ready to use , are difficult to obtain but worth the trouble if you want to make good ink drawings .
3 I did not know enough about painting to recognise it , or even guess at its value , but in the present-day crazy art market even a relatively modern painting might well be very valuable , and this one was apparently worth the trouble and risk that Ewen Mackay had taken .
4 The total penalty , then , was scarcely worth the trouble and cost involved in Mr Hunte 's consultations with senior ICC officials , conciliators all , it seems .
5 West Brom were then safe and were not too bothered about letting Stoke beat them to send Leeds down after the trouble that Leeds fans had caused at the Hawthorns .
6 Livingstone said he had been at home at the time of the trouble while Hardy said he watched the disturbance , although he did not throw anything .
7 He did not cause Lloyd George a tenth of the trouble that Lloyd George , outside , would have caused him .
8 That decision was the second major controversy of Hunt 's extraordinary year : this time not just Ferrari but many others felt that the race had been stopped to give Hunt time to repair his car , an argument given plausibility by the fact that Lauda had made his way out of the trouble and was clearly leading the race when it stopped .
9 As play was held up Bucknor strolled over to the scene of the trouble and appealed for calm .
10 Common decided to discontinue further experiments because of the trouble and cost and passed the patterns to Thomas Brown and his son , iron-founders of Alnwick , who emigrated to New York State with them in 1824 .
11 Parents may jump to the conclusion that the fact of being adopted is the root of the trouble when that has nothing to do with the case .
12 ‘ It 's something he 's had for some time , but I was always going to play him despite the trouble and the fact he 's one booking away from a ban . ’
13 You must then know how to cope with the trouble and judge whether to act on your own or call the vet .
14 Taking part in the forum ( in the order they spoke ) were : Nadia Tarazi from the General Union of Palestinian Women ; Celmira Salazar , from Chile , Fatima Babiker Mahmoud , from the Institute for African Alternatives ; Savvy Hensman , from the Black Lesbian and Gay Centre ; [ lean Thomas , from the Jamaican Organisation for Women for Progress ; Juliette Joseph , from the International Women 's Day Planning Committee ; Sarah Roelofs , from Women for Socialism ; Noirin O'Riordan , from Women in Ireland ; Elizabeth Carola , active in WAVAW and campaigns against child sexual abuse ; Shaila Shah from the Outwrite Collective and Margot Farnham from the Trouble and Strife Collective .
15 Margot Farnham : I 'm involved in the Trouble and Strife collective which is a radical feminist British journal , it 's our fifth birthday issue , we 've been going since 1983 and I 've been on the collective for two years .
16 I could see it sailing over the trouble and landing on the green .
17 It makes the agency 's continued presence known to dischargers without the trouble and cost of a sample .
18 The account describes the ‘ hospitals and open stables for the reception of diseased and sick horses in the first stage of their complaints ’ … ‘ more pure stables , which are taken up by horses in physic , or patients whose complaints are not contagious ’ … stocks where ‘ all operations are performed without the trouble or hazard of casting … a perfect skeleton of a horse , to refer to in cases of lameness , fractures , etc … various paddocks , some with and some without water for the better accommodation of horses of different descriptions , whose complaints require open air , or grass , for their perfect recovery ’ .
19 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 .
20 Why do the Continent 's environmentalists , unlike the British or American , need to go to the trouble and expense of political parties at all ?
21 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 .
22 If people have gone to the trouble and expense of referring
23 I 've been out on the on the streets and the roads and we 've had a few beers and I 've not seen any trouble but the first I 've heard of trouble was was this morning after breakfast in a nearby hotel and and by by the trouble that 's been caused I do n't know the details of it but I believe it 's been quite intense really .
24 We heard about your recent burglary and hope you were not too upset by the trouble and inconvenience .
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