Example sentences of "been trying [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | For thirty years I 've been trying to give an affirmative reply to that question . |
| 2 | In addition to normal responsibilities , which include making new investments , approaching new potential customers and keeping existing customers happy , Mr Queen says that they have been trying to educate the professional community to recognise when a company is going to need more working capital . |
| 3 | We have been trying to stop the deteriorating effects of ageing on our skin since the times of the pharaohs . |
| 4 | FOR SEVERAL years , my husband has been trying to join the Labour Party . |
| 5 | They have been trying to design a new force structure that would both live within the expected budget cuts and be capable of responding effectively to all imaginable crises . |
| 6 | Donors , including the EC and the World Bank , have been trying to persuade the Kenyan government to privatize grain marketing since 1984 . |
| 7 | In the past few years , many systematists have been trying to improve the scientific rigour of their subject , mostly by reformulating it in accord with Popperian-type hypothetico-deductive methods . |
| 8 | David said : ‘ We have been trying to promote a professional image and get away from everyone 's idea of school dinners or canteen catering . |
| 9 | The Klan has been trying to recruit a new type of kid : young , middle-class and white . |
| 10 | Since then he had been trying to write the second book . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been trying to find a tactful way to drop him for ages . ’ |
| 12 | Since she was rejected last year , the council has been trying to find an alternative service for the island . |
| 13 | Mrs Draper says they 've been trying to get a larger home for years . |
| 14 | She had been trying to marshal a persuasive line of argument in her mind . |
| 15 | They had been trying to maintain a steady pace , between hopping and running , and it had come hard . |
| 16 | In recent years , more and more science museums have been trying to meet the dual challenge of increasing their popularity and enhancing their educational provision . |
| 17 | Aware of this complexity , I have recently been trying to develop a non-traditional approach to describing publicly available business information resources that might help non-specialists appreciate how they come to be . |
| 18 | In writing thus , Schoenberg must have been trying to hide the main defect in this kind of quartal harmony — its tendency to become over-obvious and mechanical . |