Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the trouble [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | With the outbreak of the Troubles in the late 60s , the NILP came under increasing pressure from the rival sectarian political camps . |
| 4 | Or will he by then be associated in the public mind with the troubles of the economy ? |
| 5 | Part of the trouble with Harwich is it 's neither one thing nor the other . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That was a real issue during the troubles in the Punjab and had a real effect on Wolverhampton . |
| 8 | 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number of days , so as to permit the foulness to fall into the neck ; while in this position , the cork is dexterously withdrawn and that portion of the wine that is foul , allowed to escape , after which the bottle is filled with clear wine , permanently corked and secured with wire . |
| 9 | At his London press conference he attacked a Northern Irish journalist 's complaint that ‘ We 've had all those films about the troubles in the North and we 're bored with them ’ by insisting that those were the films the people needed . |
| 10 | This rather gloomy picture of the troubles of the daughter at home obviously does not apply in every case . |
| 11 | ‘ The rallies were a spontaneous reaction to the troubles of the time and it was the first time there had been any movement like it in Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | Er the trouble about the trouble with the fifties and er actually it was a very good programme er for reminiscing about the fifties . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Another commentator on the troubles of earlier centuries was Lord Curzon , later to become Viceroy of India and British Foreign Secretary . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There is far less of the mystification which can be attributed to the account of the troubles in Guerrillas : what we get is the mysterious politics of forest and township as observed by an outsider , by an African Asian who understands a good deal of what is going on . |
| 17 | At the height of the troubles in 1970 , the Irish Army brought field hospitals to the border ready for refugees from Ulster . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Will there ever be an end to the trouble between Copts and Moslems ? ’ he asked wearily . |
| 21 | ‘ Michael Caine ’ , although disguised , is an oblique look at the troubles in Northern Ireland , and ‘ Yesterday 's Men ’ and ‘ Brand New Beat ’ chronicle a country slipping into darkness with nobody there to turn the lights back on . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The original entries for 995 and 996 may have been lost , and it says nothing of the hostile relations which probably existed with Normandy for a time , and only hints at the troubles in the Irish Sea mentioned above . |
| 24 | He was badly wounded in Dublin during the troubles of 1919–21 , in which he admired the technical skills of his Irish guerrilla opponents . |
| 25 | Paul was the three thousand and first victim of the troubles in Northern Ireland . |
| 26 | One of the Statutes of the school is of particular interest , in view of the troubles at the Grammar School : |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Describing himself as the only bishop born , ordained , and consecrated in Scotland , Ewing nonetheless found a solution to the troubles of the Episcopal Church in its future alignment with , or incorporation into , the Church of England . |