Example sentences of "have been try " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then I have been trying to gain recognition from Technics . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | OVER THE past few years Britain and her European allies have been trying to adapt a system designed to catch Warsaw Pact spies to the task of hunting international terrorists . |
| 4 | Q I have been trying with little success to get hold of a list of camping barn and bunkhouse type accommodations . |
| 5 | Although they were perfectly competent people and good at their jobs , they were never going to become part of the new culture which we have been trying to design for the Storehouse group . |
| 6 | Donors , including the EC and the World Bank , have been trying to persuade the Kenyan government to privatize grain marketing since 1984 . |
| 7 | FOR THE LAST three weeks , officials of the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control ( UNFDAC ) have been trying to sell thousands of tons of onions . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | On all three issues conservatives in the Soviet Communist Party and army have been trying to reverse the combination of change at home and co-operation with America abroad . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Naturally the next field in which to try out this half-truth was politics , where people have been trying since the time of Demosthenes to fool all of the people all of the time . |
| 12 | I deciphered a code that confirmed things scientists have been trying to get at for years ; that magick is physics , basically . |
| 13 | SIR — Since Peterborough reported that the Maastricht Treaty was being sold by HMSO ( March 19 ) I have been trying to obtain a copy without success . |
| 14 | EURO Disney may be officially opening tomorrow , but tens of thousands of guests and Disney employees have been trying out the rides this week . |
| 15 | In recent months Mr Adams and the more pragmatic elements in Sinn Fein have been trying to distance themselves from IRA violence , and during the campaign they called for talks about the future of Ireland with all parties to the conflict . |
| 16 | Its sudden arrival on the scene must have been embarrassing for those who have been trying to deny that federalism was on the agenda . |
| 17 | After all , the press have been trying to marry me off for years . ’ |
| 18 | So Stephen Matthews and his colleagues at LLNL have been trying out their linear accelerators . |
| 19 | We have been trying to focus in this study on those people within the enterprise who are in a position to effect strategic change ( or to maintain the status quo in the face of destabilising influences ) . |
| 20 | In other words , they have been trying to scratch themselves on the sandy bottom and get stranded by accident . |
| 21 | We have been trying to din into the heads of the electricity boards an inkling that different people are susceptible to different levels of radiation exposure and that there is no safe level . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , biophysicist Professor H. Ti Trien and his team have been trying to mimic photosynthesis , in particular the charge separation step . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Since then chemists have been trying to model haemoglobin 's reversible oxygen binding . |
| 26 | FOR months now I have been trying to contain excitement at the thought of the compact disc . |
| 27 | ‘ I have been trying to elicit what is happening in Scotland . |
| 28 | I have been trying to draw attention away from the great cities , which were quite uncharacteristic of the scene in our centuries , and to focus on the small or middling sort ; and here we meet the doctrine so brilliantly established in recent decades by Philip Jones : that the Italian cities were essentially market towns in origin , in which nobles and knights and farmers and peasants had a common interest ; very often the knights lived as much in the towns as in their country fortresses or castles . |
| 29 | Other enthusiasts have been trying to persuade us to do aerobics , skip , row and a dozen other things to keep fit . |
| 30 | I have been trying to hatch brine shrimps to feed fry , but the eggs just settle on the bottom of the tank , in spite of aeration . |