Example sentences of "[art] trouble [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I think she 'd become a habit with him , if you know what I mean — and of course she was at the root of the trouble between Silas and me . ’
2 ‘ Will there ever be an end to the trouble between Copts and Moslems ? ’ he asked wearily .
3 On the 17th the bunkers are on the left , so Seve missed the fairway to the right and hacks over all the trouble up the right , pitches on and the crowd are all shouting ‘ get in ’ .
4 The trouble about starting a very small business is that it 's difficult to do things of any great originality , because you do n't have the buying power or maybe the manufacturing base to really get the thing off the ground .
5 His prose style bears this out : half the trouble about the Preface to Lyrical Ballads was caused by the dogmatic style of some of its assertions — Wordsworth probably thought he was simply stating a point of view .
6 ‘ So what 's the trouble about ? ’
7 The trouble about that is that nobody in England has ever sounded terribly enthusiastic about the dismemberment of England .
8 The trouble about Ellis 's preoccupation with crime fiction is that it 's a genre that sits most comfortably in an England that is dead and gone . ’
9 That was the trouble about missing a couple of hours .
10 The trouble about that is , it 's now enforced upon us and that 's official target , we have to set priority of fire certificates because we need the money , bluntly , otherwise we have to find it elsewhere , so we give them a priority that they would n't otherwise have .
11 Yes but the trouble about it is that the English are so insular that lots of them do n't , do n't realize it or wo n't believe it .
12 Er the trouble about the trouble with the fifties and er actually it was a very good programme er for reminiscing about the fifties .
13 erm The trouble about the tropical forest is this tremendous variation from place to place , the conditions are totally different in different places , although the forest is similar in that it 's got large numbers of different species of trees and flora and fauna .
14 But the fact that you took the trouble to ‘ phone is a point strongly in your favour …
15 On the other hand , do take the trouble to be friendly and courteous .
16 And er I 'd like to sort of thank Jan on your behalf and all the other people for taking the trouble to , to organize this scheme and get things rolling because it , it will be a little financial benefit to you when you renew your insurance , so thanks for that , Jan .
17 Sections of the Yemeni press linked the trouble to agitation by the main Islamic party , the Yemeni Rally for Reforms ( YRR ) .
18 Erm you 'd have thought that they would have taken the trouble to erm you know to do some bit of arm twisting .
19 The trouble for him was that this manifesto — ‘ the longest suicide note in history ’ — had also made his party entirely unelectable .
20 The trouble for Rubberneck , he lived with a fanatic , he had not the gift .
21 The trouble for the Tory whips , and for such organisers of backbench opinion as the Chairman of the 1922 Committee , Cranley Onslow , was that far too many Conservative contenders appeared : Peter Brooke , the former Ulster Secretary ; Terence Higgins , a minister as long ago as Ted Heath 's government , and chairman of the Treasury Select Committee ; Sir Giles Shaw , another officer of the '22 ; Paul Channon , another former cabinet minister ; Dame Janet Fookes , some Tories ' hope as the first woman Speaker .
22 That was the trouble for him with dope .
23 The trouble for me is that — as happens with so many western writers on eastern topographical themes — it feels grafted on , retrospectively interpreted to give a quasi-authentic mystico-intellectual gloss , rather than profoundly integrated , even throughout what St. Augustine terms the ‘ vital dimension of approach . ’
24 It was the chappies that got the trouble for for making a bad mould .
25 Some states even go to the trouble of having two switches , one a ‘ dummy ’ , so that everyone can say , ‘ it was n't me who actually killed him ’ .
26 You go to all the trouble of finding me a bed in a night shelter and you then get me so drunk they 'll refuse point-blank to let me in ! ’
27 WHEN Ron Dennis , the managing director of McLaren International , goes to the trouble of stressing that his team intend to continue giving Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost impartial treatment during the final two races , such a commendably even-handed approach immediately arouses suspicion in a sport governed by an organisation which is not exactly noted for its equitable methods .
28 Items of value , real or sentimental , are worth the trouble of proper storage .
29 Our school was evacuated to Hadlow Down in Sussex , just about where the German bombers used to off-load their bombs to save themselves the trouble of having to go all the way to London .
30 If they both ran into Viola , he would introduce her as that , and if he waited awhile , fate might save him the trouble of a divorce , anyway .
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