Example sentences of "[noun] be try [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All sensible people must with shame agree that it is a disgrace to our nation that we Germans are trying to suppress a German , to whom foreign countries have done justice by their great admiration and even by public acknowledgments in writing . |
| 2 | EXPERTS are trying to identify a baby snake which popped out of the toaster in Shelley Marshall 's flat at Hove , Sussex , on her 24th birthday . |
| 3 | Keynes was trying to create a consensus around public works and his adoption of protection in the autumn of 1930 was almost certainly an attempt to enlist the support of the growing tariff lobby . |
| 4 | The significance of this will be apparent when it is realized that , while the sportsman is trying to get a sight of the tiger , the tiger in all probability is trying to stalk the sportsman , or is lying up in wait for him . |
| 5 | As its name suggests , MPEG is trying to define a standard for coding moving images and associated audio . |
| 6 | In the meantime , the council is trying to provide a boat for the summer season , either by chartering a vessel , or juggling their fleet of inter-island ferries . |
| 7 | Representatives from Compaq Computer Corp 's East European headquarters in Munich are trying to arrange a meeting with the Slovakian government in an attempt to persuade it to ease the currency regulations adopted by the National Bank in February . |
| 8 | It 's a bunch of people , Universities , Publishers , erm some funding from Central Government , some from er research councils of various kinds are trying to make a sort of record of current usage of the English language and I think Longmans are intr interested in it for example f from the point of view of dictionaries and stuff like that . |
| 9 | Hardliners are trying to overturn a decree by Russian President Boris Yeltsin banning the party . |
| 10 | They say that the Banks are trying to create a climate to lower expectations and thereby facilitate the making-up of minds for the final handshake from the Area Manager . |
| 11 | The fleet of balloons studding the Swindon skyline took second place to the collision but the organisers were trying to get a message across . |
| 12 | My right hon. Friend the Minister for Overseas Development is trying to arrange a donors conference to bring further help , but , as my hon. Friend would agree , the best relief of human rights would be if the Iraqis accepted resolutions 706 and 712 and began to sell oil , the proceeds of which could go to the relief of poverty as well as the compensation of those whom they have victimised . |
| 13 | Labour MP Chris Mullin is trying to introduce a Bill making declaration a legal requirement to counter allegations of corruption . |
| 14 | Sheikh was trying to jab a pencil in Mahmud 's eyes . |
| 15 | The archer was trying to hit a balloon 30ft away in Aubenas , France . |
| 16 | The other was trying to find a mechanism to sell more. , Another example of the ability to see the wood from the trees can be drawn from the time he was asked to take charge of Esso 's marine operations . |
| 17 | Such warnings succeeded in bringing the King into the negotiations ; by 1914 the King was trying to secure a compromise settlement , in itself a major advance for an opposition . |
| 18 | It did n't seem to her that Timothy Gedge was trying to make a joke , yet it was amazing that he was saying all this just to pay them back for not being friendly or because he wanted a wedding-dress they would n't give him , or for any reason at all . |
| 19 | Some landowners on Dartmoor are trying to enforce a booking system and even payment for the use of facilities on their land such as rock outcrops for climbing . |
| 20 | Bell had been a teacher of the deaf , but one day , while he and his assistant Thomas Watson were trying to adjust a fault in Bell 's new ‘ musical telegraph ’ , he heard a ‘ twang ’ coming from the receiver . |
| 21 | For Marx is trying to develop a theory which will apply universally , and the fact ( if it is a fact ) that individuals who live in different societies do not share constant properties is enough to disqualify them from being the rock on which social explanations are founded . |
| 22 | And speaking of needless repeats , do you think this owner is trying to make a point ? |
| 23 | At Comdex , PC Week was trying to stage a runoff among NT , UnixWare , Solaris , Next and SCO . |
| 24 | DETECTIVES hunting a robber who sprayed a builder and his wife with CS gas are trying to trace a man seen in the area just before the raid . |
| 25 | Members are trying to raise a petition against a decision to take the programme off the air for 18 months at the end of the current series . |
| 26 | Doctors are trying to find a cure for a four-year-old girl who 's allergic to eating . |
| 27 | At the far end of the hall a great pile of earth was growing steadily ; here the Sikhs were trying to dig a well . |
| 28 | And if you cast your minds way back to Tuesday you will remember that what I said was that the Americans were trying to create a system of limited government er and yet one which er protected the liberties of individuals not all individuals , not black individuals especially but of individuals , this was the rhetoric of the time and the main device that they invented to do this was something called the separation of powers and they argued that , where political power is concentrated , the potential for abuse is greater so that where executive and legislative powers are held in the same hands , as they are in our system of government , the , there is more prospect of government encroaching upon the rights of individuals . |
| 29 | Pc Barlow 's present dog , Ben , is due to retire later this year and the officer from Thorpe-le-Soken is trying to find a replacement . |
| 30 | Mark Williams , freelancing out of It , did some work , and fresh out of Oxford , Jonathon Green was trying to get a job in Fleet Street . |