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

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1 This reduction in natural ventilation not only causes trouble within the house , but also can affect its structure , and one problem area is the roof space .
2 Either tactic offers at least a chance of keeping trouble to the minimum .
3 Bill Grundy has trouble with The Sex Pistols on TV .
4 It needs to be granted , certainly , that in speaking of a thing 's properties one is not always speaking of individual properties , and that the proponents of more traditional solutions to the problem of universals , unsuccessful though they have been in their own proposals , have made trouble for the solution in terms of individual properties .
5 Thus on 14 May 1875 , John Evans , FRS , spoke on the ‘ coinage of the Ancient Britons and Natural Selection ’ , showing how copies made from Roman models gradually degenerated towards simple and symmetrical patterns , saving trouble for the makers .
6 The French gave support to the Scots who , from very early on in the new reign , caused trouble in the north ; while to the west , in Wales , where Owain Glyn Dŵr was to rise against English rule in 1400 , French troops landed and at one time might have been seen in the Herefordshire countryside .
7 Seb realised immediately that Boz was seeking trouble as a means of purging himself of the anger and frustration that was bubbling inside him .
8 This would avoid causing trouble with the people ( Mark 14:2 ) .
9 But if if we find anybody 's a persistent discounter they 're causing trouble for the person who comes to resell .
10 It used to be that causing trouble for the leadership was the surest way to a big NEC vote .
11 I ca n't see even Hitler causing trouble for the Swedish , he needs our iron ore too much .
12 Earlier , the national executive committee had expelled two CCM members and five officials for " spreading political propaganda and causing trouble on the island of Pemba " , according to a radio report on Oct. 12 .
13 At the end of the century the Franks appear in the Latin panegyrics as a maritime people , causing trouble in the Channel .
14 I fear that I may not be able to take part in the debate as I intend to cause trouble for the Government over Oxleas wood , which is in my constituency and that of the hon. Member for Woolwich ( Mr. Cartwright ) , but I hope that my hon. Friend will regard my support as being with him throughout the debate .
15 This careful combination of royal with local authority could prove a two-edged weapon , reinforcing local bonds on the one hand , but offering opportunities for the disenchanted to cause trouble on the other .
16 Swiftly following on from coal there came trouble in the steel industry .
17 She tried to banish the thought that Zambia attracted trouble like a magnet , knowing it to be bad magick even to think that , but it was difficult not to .
18 In the metopes Herakles , mortal son of Zeus , to be raised after death to Olympus , hero of all Greece but in particular of the Dorians and traditional founder of the Olympic games , clears trouble from the earth with the help of his divine siblings , Hermes and especially Athena , goddess of wisdom and courage as well as of Athens .
19 Shabby , he 'd thought , and plain , so that he was taken aback by the neatly-rounded woman who answered his knock , a most presentable person in a dark , well-cut woollen dress with what looked like a gold brooch at the neck , her smooth oval face miraculously ironed of the creases he remembered , her mouth smiling the serene welcome of a woman who has no reason to expect trouble from a knock at her door , a woman who eats well and sleeps well and can settle all her bills .
20 ‘ I have had trouble with a glove , ’ she said .
21 They 've recently had trouble with the Ixmariters , concerning a child . ’
22 Recently we have had trouble with the engine misfiring and stalling , even when hot .
23 er the coach to er to er Bowness on the bus we took thirty nine pound erm with discount from last year people who er bought some last Christmas we made twenty three pound on that the library , only thirty pence course , we 've had trouble with the library because we ca n't leave it here now and er so that 's why it 's s so low the , the income .
24 Another resident , who asked not to be named , said : ‘ Everyone has had trouble with the gangs at one time or another .
25 no , no we have n't had much , no , no we have n't had trouble with the Hitachi , just the machine itself actually
26 I could guess why he might have had trouble with the sort of people Barbara described : she said she had watched what happened but the men had not spotted her .
27 He 'd had trouble over a dock strike in France , and had some perishable cargoes which he could n't deliver .
28 Meanwhile the pair say that they 've had trouble in the past with vandalism and youths prowling around the back of the council owned flats .
29 is she still getting trouble with the inflammation ?
30 But I got trouble with the ceptor links .
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