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

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1 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 .
2 Sri Lanka part of the trouble is the civil war .
3 The real cause of the trouble is , that parents and teachers always pass on to us , as children , what they themselves have been told , and this has been going on for hundreds , or even thousands of years .
4 I thought the leg might have been broken , but the cause of the trouble is a shot up here . ’
5 Tribunal chairman Lionel Brown said : ‘ The cause of the trouble is free alcohol .
6 Tribunal chairman Mr Brown said : ‘ The cause of the trouble is free alcohol if people had to pay for it they would not drink so much . ’
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