Example sentences of "be trying [to-vb] [art] same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You 're trying to do the same thing but whereas in feudal exploitation
2 At the same moment you may be trying to tell the same editor an agreed version of what is happening at your client 's company .
3 Any attempt to quantify the relative intelligences of species — and even of human beings from different cultural backgrounds — is quite patently misguided : one is trying to apply the same measure to two qualitatively different things .
4 At a certain level of abstraction there is a sense in which any speech processing mechanism is trying to solve the same search problem ( see Goodman & Reddy 1980 ) .
5 It 's trying to do the same work with the smaller amount of blood as it did with the full amount , ten pints perhaps reduced down to seven , got to keep pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , because that little bit of blood has got to get round and do a lot more work now , okay , so the blood 's rushing round and the heart is pushing faster because it 's having to , because it 's not enough of the , not so much pressure there , that 's why it feels weak , weak and fast , okay ?
6 HP would know something about the exercise since it 's trying to do the same thing and the best it 's been able to come up with is the diskless 16Mb 715/33 for $5,700 or 525Mb 715/33 for $7,400 .
7 The Roots , a drawing done at about the same time as Sorrow , was conceived quite deliberately as a companion piece , He paired them because he was trying to say the same thing in both .
8 Last night , Sam had tried to manipulate Clare , and now her grandmother was trying to do the same thing on his behalf .
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