Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the trouble [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mario and I agreed during that long flight that part of the trouble had to be media coverage . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Part of the trouble lay in the German command 's ruthless system of keeping divisions in the line over lengthy periods , constantly topping up the losses with new replacements . |
| 4 | Part of the trouble stemmed from a dislike of Sandys ' refusal to heed professional advice , and from his propensity for allowing the senior civil servants in the Ministry of Defence to usurp the powers that properly belonged to the Chiefs of Staff . |
| 5 | It was plain enough now , from the glance he shot in the general direction of the three of them and the jeep , that so far as he was concerned they were just part and parcel of the trouble generated by the city , the days he had to spend queuing in the tax office , the months he had spent shut up in the squalid , over-crowded prison , the endless haggling with shopkeepers , the disappearance of his good-for-nothing son . |
| 6 | At a preliminary meeting of the British commanders Slim bluntly observed that ‘ the root of the trouble lay in the fact that the Burmese distrusted us ’ . |
| 7 | The root of the trouble lies in the fact that no segment of a polycyclic river has a perfectly smooth concave profile , so that the formula gives a curve with an approximate fit . |
| 8 | For him , the inability to locate the source of the trouble resulted in unmethodical chaos . |