Example sentences of "[noun] have be try [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The purpose of our work has been to try to look at all aspects of sign language which might help those who make choices .
2 ‘ For 20 years ’ , said Mr Beckman , ‘ the European Community has been trying to agree on air fares .
3 Helen had been trying to learn for some time , but she found it very hard although Tony was endlessly patient with her .
4 Noise from vehicles is something the Government has been trying to tackle for more than 20 years .
5 But it is also a lesson that Yucatan 's businessmen and its state government have been trying to impress on investors from the United States — with controversial results .
6 I deciphered a code that confirmed things scientists have been trying to get at for years ; that magick is physics , basically .
7 But BitC was an outfit with drive , enthusiasm , and a determination to make the sort of changes in society that Charles had been trying to make for years .
8 Pc James Crane , one of six officers who had searched for the alleged raiders , said both men had been trying to hide in bushes and ferns .
9 Timid winds of change had been trying to blow in Spanish universities since 1951 , when a relatively progressive Minister of Education , Joaquin Ruiz-Giménez , had initiated an attempt to revitalize and open up the torpid and reactionary Spanish education system .
10 There then appeared a chink of light when we were advised by Mr F. Musgrave of Saintfield that he wished to sell the site of the former Ballynahinch Junction Station , a site which the Trust had been trying to secure for the past 20 years .
11 In a speech that blended music-hall style with soap-box rhetoric , the veteran left wing MP for Bolsover , said : ‘ For too long the Labour Party has been trying to follow in the wake of Mrs Thatcher 's agenda .
12 Covering her impatience , she told him that some keys similar to MacQuillan 's desk keys had been found and Ruby had been trying to divine from them the identity of their owner .
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