Example sentences of "[prep] [art] trouble [prep] " in BNC.

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1 For the trouble with the great and the good is that we expect them to be on duty the whole time .
2 Er the trouble about the trouble with the fifties and er actually it was a very good programme er for reminiscing about the fifties .
3 But Mary was out so I gave him the letter and began to tell him about the trouble at home .
4 It appeared that Lord Coleworthy had heard all about the trouble from Fairfax and was trying to be a peacemaker .
5 Items of value , real or sentimental , are worth the trouble of proper storage .
6 Is is worth the trouble of allowing members to propose resolutions ?
7 In such cases it would be worth the trouble of introducing worms from elsewhere .
8 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 .
9 After the trouble with the coal , Peter was afraid of seeing the Station Master again .
10 Part of the trouble with Harwich is it 's neither one thing nor the other . ’
11 By some kind of irony this was exactly the reverse of the trouble with masonry cathedrals which fell down because they turned out to be in tension when the builders held that they were in compression .
12 Wood is not a material which suffers fools gladly and a great deal of the trouble with wooden aeroplanes was due to wooden people .
13 It was also the cause of much of the trouble with Elfed .
14 He says the force has started to crack down on rural violence and he blamed much of the trouble on young people drinking too much .
15 I think she 'd become a habit with him , if you know what I mean — and of course she was at the root of the trouble between Silas and me . ’
16 Mr Roskha said of the trouble in Kishinyev : ‘ Several thousand people from the Popular Front and other groups broke through cordons of police and climbed on to the tanks and armoured personnel carriers , waving banners and chanting slogans .
17 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 .
18 But this dichotomy is , itself , a great deal of the trouble in St Ann 's .
19 It was their own form-master Sam Sylvester who got them into the trouble in the first place .
20 ‘ But then he got her into the trouble in the first place .
21 He wanted to look at the contract and check it out and really , with no trouble at all — I think he wrote a couple of letters and said that Pitt was not acting in the capacity as manager that David required and that was that . ’
22 The bottom line is , however , that an amp with an effects loop which could n't be used properly before , not only handles one processor but can feed four with no trouble at all and with no signal corruption .
23 If it were full size you would have shaped the shoulders on a garment with no trouble at all and have a lovely neat edge for sewing up or grafting .
24 When I switch off my lamp I switch on me , and vice versa , with no trouble at all .
25 Close beside it is a much fainter star , Alcor , which is an easy object when seen against a dark sky , and can be made out with no trouble at all .
26 Anyone who really wanted to could get in with no trouble at all . ’
27 At first she had travelled first class and stayed in only the best hotels , but McKenna had found her with no trouble at all .
28 One look at the intricate pattern was enough to tell her she could follow it with no trouble at all .
29 With no trouble in selling their products , Champagne houses should have been heartened by such healthy expansion , but theirs was a labour-intensive business , where every bottle produced was taken through each stage of a complex operation by hand .
30 ‘ She is in no trouble at all , ’ Miss Honey said .
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