Example sentences of "have [be] trying [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Giuliani campaign — advised by Roger Ailes , the media guru who turned the Bush campaign around — has been trying to persuade Jewish voters that Mr Dinkins is a clone of Jesse Jackson and no friend of Israel . |
| 2 | The minister of agriculture and resettlement , Kumbirai Kangai , has been trying to reassure white farmers . |
| 3 | And about 500 yards away in Neasham Road , Mr John Atkinson , company director of Profix Fabrication , has been trying to find new markets for his steel products . |
| 4 | In Britain , the government has been trying to encourage commercial recyclers such as waste-paper merchants to join forces with the packaging industry to give more packaging a second life . |
| 5 | A Tory friend of mine who has been trying to write nice things about the Conservative campaign has been tearing his hair out in desperation , not just because they are doing so badly — but because they deserve to . |
| 6 | China is North Korea 's closest ally and has been trying to defuse recent tensions . |
| 7 | They 've been trying to find alternative berths for incoming cargoes and negotiating the release of ships waiting to sail on the night time . |
| 8 | I 've been trying to find loose stones again . |
| 9 | Harp Lager have been trying to attract English horses and although this is never easy I 'm sure that if the right money was available , then the barriers would come down . |
| 10 | We have been trying to breed Red Pandas for some time but they are very difficult . |