Example sentences of "have [been] trying for [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Authorities in Serbia again blocked a UN relief convoy which has been trying for days to reach the besieged Muslim enclave of Srebrenica . |
| 2 | Karen Gorbutt , 30 , from South London , has been trying for years to get her partner , Matthew Allen , 30 , to be considerate around the house . |
| 3 | A READER writes that she has been trying for weeks to find the outcome of the Prime Minister 's ‘ Taking Stock ’ exercise . |
| 4 | The ancient Egyptians had been trying for centuries to prevent the export of their sacred felines . |
| 5 | MIT members were shown , in detail , the market which they had been trying for years to service . |
| 6 | My head was n't really in the right state for assimilating all this stuff , but as far as I could gather , Uncle Rory had been trying for years to come up with something Creative ( his capital , his italics ) . |
| 7 | Sylvia had been trying for years to overcome her claustrophobia , but with little or no success . |
| 8 | Murray said : ‘ We have been trying for months to sign the right sort of player to replace Joe Allon . |
| 9 | Scientists have been trying for years to realize the potential of hydrogen , but they have been thwarted by the problem of storing the gas , which is highly explosive and needs to be kept in high-pressure containers . |
| 10 | Great local artists like Gilberto Gil have been trying for years to promote their country 's music , but ( as with the African-music boom ) it has taken the combination of an enthusiastic American super-star and cosmopolitan French audiences to really make the change . |