Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] the trouble " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their occupational duty , as they saw it , was equally clear-sufficient numbers and mobile reserves for the trouble spots . |
| 2 | The drink had something to do with it , no doubt , but lack of a decent woman in his house was the real cause of the trouble . |
| 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 | My information was that the real cause of the trouble there was a man called Jefferson . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Wood is not a material which suffers fools gladly and a great deal of the trouble with wooden aeroplanes was due to wooden people . |
| 8 | But this dichotomy is , itself , a great deal of the trouble in St Ann 's . |
| 9 | In order to gain automatic control of the trouble spot , namely the association between the pronoun and the verb ending , a system drill consisting of several substitution drills needs to be set up , in which the pronoun is kept constant ( and hence the verb ending ) , and substitution is made at the verb stem position . |
| 10 | You can only carry out remedial action one step at a time , so you must start by removing the primary cause of the trouble , and that is the polluted water . |
| 11 | When Jonathan Malcolm and his girlfriend met they could have little idea of the trouble which lay in store . |
| 12 | And though I am well aware that you , Kim , are the main cause of the trouble I have no alternative but to punish all three of you . " |
| 13 | Alex and I enjoy it occasionally and I enjoy making it , which I suppose is sufficient justification for the trouble . ’ |