Example sentences of "the trouble [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly the situation did deteriorate during the seven-year war and lots of schools closed as the troubles increased . |
| 2 | For the regular force alone , this is a ratio of just over five policemen and women per thousand of population , a proportion which has grown steadily since the troubles began in 1968 , when it stood at just over two ( see Brewer et al . |
| 3 | Indeed , 1977–9 , with Roy Mason at the Northern Irish ministry , was the most unproductive period that Ireland had known , in political or constitutional terms , since the troubles began in the late 1960s . |
| 4 | But he died before the troubles began . |
| 5 | Persecution had also brought many of the dissenting groups together in a greater unity than they had experienced before the troubles began . |
| 6 | The troubles began on the morning of the match when Gavin Hastings , probably the best fullback in the world , pulled out of the team with a back injury . |
| 7 | Leonid never brought you to the house after the troubles began . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You spoke of my father … before the troubles began . |
| 9 | He was in Belfast when the Troubles began , then I heard he 'd gone to Italy . |
| 10 | ‘ The troubles began when some tribesmen came in |
| 11 | They include Dennis and Kathleen Tate , of Linthorpe , Middlesbrough , who were visiting their daughter , but who had not ventured out of her apartment since the troubles began . |
| 12 | The troubles had deep roots in the previous hundred years and represented a breakdown in much of the aristocratic social order which the classical forms of houses and estates concealed rather than coerced . |
| 13 | Amid criticism that the government 's reactions to the troubles had been slow and their position confused and biased , Deputy Prime Minister Gelu Voican-Voiculescu , who was leading compromise talks between the HDUR and the UVR on March 22 , assured crowds in Tirgu Mures that the government 's commission of inquiry would be objective but would seek the " resolute " punishment of those found guilty of instigating the unrest . |
| 14 | When Parliament met in the autumn of 1381 , the Speaker expressed the view that the troubles had been caused by abuses in government , notably by purveyance for the royal household and by the levy of taxation for the defence of the realm , particularly as this did not prevent the King 's enemies from raiding England . |
| 15 | Still , the troubles continued . |
| 16 | Rock ‘ n ’ rail Some months before the troubles developed in East Germany , one of the world 's more arcane organisations , the Ireland-German Democratic Friendship Society , announced plans to celebrate in Dublin the 40th birthday of their comrades ' dictatorship in the East . |
| 17 | The result was a peerage granted by William and Mary in 1689 , when he had helped them through the troubles surrounding the deposition of James II . |
| 18 | ‘ They all went on to be priests and then the Troubles started and I left too . |
| 19 | LOOKING back on Northern Ireland as it was when the troubles started is uncannily like looking back on a silent movie . |
| 20 | The troubles experienced by contractors and developers have led to a new realism ; this improved view now has the benefit of a TV and newspaper marketing programme . |
| 21 | Here there may have been a connection between the temporary weakening of ducal control over minting , in the troubles following Richard II 's death , and the production of a currency useful for traders . |
| 22 | These are books by middle-aged semi-Scots who have chosen to publish accounts of their early lives which lay stress on the troubles they experienced , on the troubles inflicted , within their respective environments , by poverty and servitude , and on the responsibility of relatives for some of what the writers had to suffer . |
| 23 | ‘ He actually blamed the players for all the troubles saying it would be their fault if the club went into liquidation . |
| 24 | ‘ He actually blamed the players for all the troubles saying it would be their fault if the club went into liquidation . |
| 25 | People would have lived happily if it was n't for the troubles instigated by the government and the Jewish Agency . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Sadly , the troubles ended all that . |
| 27 | Police stated that although the troubles appeared at first to be spontaneous , both left- and right-wing extremists , Islamic fundamentalists and drug dealers had soon moved in . |
| 28 | Here the troubles start . |
| 29 | Why , when animal teeth were available and were in fact used for necklaces by the simple process of perforating their roots , did men go to the trouble to carve beads from solid ivory ? |
| 30 | Then she saw that Peter had been crying and that he had taken the trouble to wear a clean , white shirt . |