Example sentences of "have [been] trying [verb] [adj] [noun] " 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 | On April 1 this year the college became independent of local education authority control , and since then the college 's management has been trying to introduce new employment contracts , as recommended by the College Employers ' Forum . |
| 6 | For 10 years the centre has been trying to breed African Fish Eagles . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | China is North Korea 's closest ally and has been trying to defuse recent tensions . |
| 9 | I talked to the boy who 'd been trying to help this Frome — trying to get him to vomit it up , and so on . |
| 10 | Despite the fact that they had been trying to kill each other , against the creature they were united . |
| 11 | He had been trying to put inorganic chemistry into an intelligible form for his students at the University of St Petersburg , when ( in common with various contemporaries in various countries ) he realized that if the elements are set out in order of increasing atomic weight , they display periodicity : similar elements recur at regular intervals . |
| 12 | Although a number of influential parties had been trying to have New Year 's flay changed from the old style 13th of the month to 1st , the majority of the natives were loath to change and both days were partially observed . |
| 13 | Poor had been trying to remove this panel in the control room when we appeared and was surrounded by contractors trying to get in to start redecoration . |
| 14 | While everyone else had been trying to solve this problem by heating … to millions of degrees , we had apparently stumbled on the solution involving low temperatures instead . ’ |
| 15 | Because the kind of earthly and human illustrations that I 've been trying to use this morning are all bound to fall short . |
| 16 | Now the enemy 's all deflated and dead , I feel like all my friends and all the artists were like little pygmies and we 've been trying to kill this elephant all these years with little arrows , and finally tonight … |
| 17 | I 've been trying to talk some sense into her . ’ |
| 18 | For the past three months I 've been trying to buy some SIMMS for my Mesh 386SX . |
| 19 | They 've been trying to find alternative berths for incoming cargoes and negotiating the release of ships waiting to sail on the night time . |
| 20 | I 've been trying to find loose stones again . |
| 21 | I 've been trying to ring all evening ! ’ |
| 22 | Christian deputies have been trying to obtain some form of timetable for a Syrian military withdrawal before accepting political reforms , but at their fifth meeting yesterday , the 62 MPs — half of them Christians — were persuaded to debate the future powers of a Christian Maronite president . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We have been trying to breed Red Pandas for some time but they are very difficult . |
| 25 | Here it 's been trying to snow all day . |