Example sentences of "[be] the trouble " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can this ever have been the trouble with Larkin ? |
| 2 | My sister was the person who 'd been the trouble , she had boyfriends in infant school , I was the girl who always beat up the boys in infant school ! |
| 3 | That 's been the trouble all along , has n't it ? |
| 4 | That 's been the trouble all along . ’ |
| 5 | What proved to be the trouble was that they had been munching handfuls of powdered soap . |
| 6 | ‘ What seems to be the trouble ? ’ asked the doctor . |
| 7 | " This seems to be the trouble , Mr Beamish . |
| 8 | Amis writes here , as he has written in other books , about the distance between men and women ; here , too , is the trouble that awaits the rational hedonist who deceives the woman he lives with and loves . |
| 9 | That is the trouble with the boxing-match , he wrote . |
| 10 | Is the trouble at home that I am hearing of , perhaps , that someone had been — what is the expression ? — boiling the books ? ’ |
| 11 | But that is the trouble with such charities . |
| 12 | ‘ I know — and that is the trouble . |
| 13 | What is the trouble ? ’ |
| 14 | That is the trouble . |
| 15 | One aspect of the TDC policy which seems to me to be both enlightened and enduring is the trouble which is taken to identify markets for work projects , particularly from the public sector , which again may sound surprising in capitalist Texas . |
| 16 | This is the trouble with compromises ; there was enough dialogue to string the musical numbers together , and the abridgement guarded against tedium , but the result is neither one thing nor the other . |
| 17 | That is the trouble with llamas . |
| 18 | " What is the trouble , my child ? " |
| 19 | This is the trouble : that I understand nothing . |
| 20 | That is the trouble with the Labour party : one has to distinguish between its rhetoric and reality when it comes to law and order . |
| 21 | This is the trouble with points of order of this kind . |
| 22 | Wycliffe was half expecting to be asked : ‘ What exactly is the trouble ? ’ but Tate did not speak ; he waited , apparently relaxed , his thin , pale hands resting on the desk in front of him . |
| 23 | It is not religion , nor its truth-claims , that is the trouble , but rather attitudes of selfishness and possessiveness — of thinking of religion or of truth as an entity which we have and somebody else does not have . |
| 24 | This fellow went up to a chap ( you could not tell who were NCOs or who were officers ) who was just resting because it was very hard work and we were working under pressure , and said sharply : " What is the trouble with you , have you run out of sandbags ? " |
| 25 | I mean these are n't the norm' , I do n't know what the norm is and this is the trouble . |
| 26 | ‘ What exactly is the trouble ? ’ he asked stiffly . |
| 27 | Terry Thomas : What precisely is the trouble |
| 28 | But that is the trouble with meat today , you see , that 's not rested . |
| 29 | This is the trouble with families int it ? |
| 30 | but er , that is the trouble , half of these are not been put in properly and the fumes are coming back over |