Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the trouble " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wood is not a material which suffers fools gladly and a great deal of the trouble with wooden aeroplanes was due to wooden people . |
| 2 | But this dichotomy is , itself , a great deal of the trouble in St Ann 's . |
| 3 | I was afraid to go back home for fear of the trouble I 'd be in from Mum . |
| 4 | Killion cackled with pleasure at the trouble he was causing . |
| 5 | Part of the trouble with Harwich is it 's neither one thing nor the other . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mario and I agreed during that long flight that part of the trouble had to be media coverage . |
| 9 | That was part of the trouble , that was how it was that events were set in motion . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Sri Lanka part of the trouble is the civil war . |
| 14 | That was n't any comfort ; part of the trouble , a big part , was that she could sympathise with him . |
| 15 | That 's part of the trouble . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | That was part of the trouble , of course : she was just so aware of him . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | As the Soviet army in Germany has to cross Poland to get home ( unless it goes by sea ) , the Poles have asked for compensation for the trouble this causes . |
| 22 | As play was held up Bucknor strolled over to the scene of the trouble and appealed for calm . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | On 24 June she wrote her final thank you to the architect , asking him to accept a signed photograph of herself ‘ in remembrance of the trouble you have taken concerning my beautiful Dolls ' House ’ . |
| 25 | That had been the beginning of the trouble , because her mother had made her swear solemnly , although she was only seven , that she was innocent of all filthiness , and although she had sworn , she knew deep down in her heart that she was n't . |
| 26 | Er the trouble about the trouble with the fifties and er actually it was a very good programme er for reminiscing about the fifties . |
| 27 | Disagreement about the rate at which parents let go is usually the root of the trouble . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | and hinted that it would probably be a good idea if the Rector of St. Mary 's , the Vicar of St. Peter 's , and Mr. John Meridyth ( another Grammar School Visitor from the 1850s ) , who were considered to be at the root of the trouble , were not appointed Trustees . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |