Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it enables young , the young people that have been coming to those meetings to find out too the problems that councillors have and local authorities have , in actually trying to carry out the sorts of things they want . |
| 2 | I think it enables the young people that have been coming to those meetings to find out too the problems that Councillors and Local Authorities have in actually trying to carry out the sort of things they want . |
| 3 | Waving his men into a pincer formation , Mortimer surprised the small group of machete-wielding rebels who were trying to wear down the staff of the building . |
| 4 | We are now trying to find out the details of this negative feedback system . |
| 5 | He 's been in contact with his family , who are trying to find out the details of what happened . |
| 6 | Conoco was trying to find out the cause of the leak , before it could decide how to stop it . |
| 7 | A statute of 1388 attempted to reinforce the Statute of Labourers , the measure enacted to control wages after the Black Death of 1348–49 , but attempts in 1389 to put it into practice showed that men were trying to shake off the stigma of villein tenure , even at the cost of taking a cash wage worth less in real terms than the combination of cash and food which they had been paid previously , insisting on working by the day rather than contracting for a yearly wage , and exploiting the possibility of alternative employment ( 65 , pp.92–5 ) . |
| 8 | It says : ‘ I am sure that there must be a right-wing think-tank somewhere , trying to work out the possibility of privatising air so that only those who can afford to pay can breathe . ’ |
| 9 | So in the past few weeks Mr Yavlinsky , Vladimir Shcherbakov , the Soviet minister in charge of economics , and Yevgeny Primakov , an aide to Mr Gorbachev , have all visited America trying to work out the terms of an aid-for-economic-reform package . |
| 10 | In one shot , Daine could be seen in the background while Rhonda was trying to scratch out the eyes of a competitor for his attentions , Arlene Dahl . |
| 11 | Chopra stared at the space station , trying to pick up the memories of a past age . |
| 12 | Now , at this very moment , he is trying to pick up the pieces of his life after you have shattered it so cruelly — ’ |
| 13 | Trying to pick up the pieces of his life , he says his experiences have made it difficult for him to trust anybody . |
| 14 | Vidal , whose portfolio was taken over by Victor Yamamoto Miyakawa , accused the government of trying to cover up the seriousness of the disease 's spread . |
| 15 | It is an extreme example Mr , trying to point out the sorts of problems that arise in relation to policies which say more than they mean . |
| 16 | ‘ So we are trying to fill out the details of his early life . |
| 17 | ‘ People slipping on banana skins are n't funny , but people spending a lifetime trying to figure out the meaning of the banana are . |
| 18 | Instead we 've spent the last 60 or so years trying to live up the likes of Jean Harlow , Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly . |
| 19 | Now a builder at Eastington near Stonehouse in Gloucestershire is trying to slow down the decline of valuable trees . |
| 20 | Mark was in a jogging phase , trying to hold back the river of age , puffing around in his new Nike Air . |
| 21 | Like Franco , Arrese was trying to hold back the march of history . |
| 22 | All these women are expressing a primal female energy that 's perhaps unconsciously trying to balance out the spirit of rock , super-macho style . |
| 23 | Now President de Klerk and the ANC leadership are trying to tone down the outcome of the talks in order not to appear to have pre-empted a decision before the others have had a chance to have their say . |
| 24 | Carlson remembered the passage in the Book which talked about the Form Manipulator trying to break down the power of love . |
| 25 | The Slovaks are trying to rub out the use of Hungarian in officialdom . |
| 26 | People frequently get into difficulties with this age group by trying to think through the consequences of suggestions before trying them out , which requires an inappropriately sophisticated level of thought on the part of the children . |
| 27 | There is enough to do without trying to take on the role of quality controller standing by the conveyor belt of education , rejecting two out of three products as sub-standard . |
| 28 | He was looking up the driveway , trying to make out the shape of the house through the trees . |
| 29 | Frightened by events in Eastern Europe , Vietnam 's ageing leaders appear to be trying to shore up the authority of the party by cutting down the independence of an already tightly-regulated press . |
| 30 | Woodfall , the company set up by Tony Richardson and John Osborne to exploit the profits from Look Back in Anger , with the aim of proving ‘ that good films , ones that showed British life as it really is , could be made cheaply ’ , nevertheless had no particular strategy for trying to bring down the budgets of films from the £100,000 or so they were costing to the £30,000 level that , for example , French filmmakers worked to . |