Example sentences of "[be] try [to-vb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Well that 's what they 're trying to do at the moment by measuring rates of turnover of deep to surface waters
2 All I 'm trying to do at the moment is to sort of get
3 His sight was coming back but he still seemed to have some uneven blindness , as if he were trying to look at the world through a ragged hole in a postage stamp .
4 ‘ We are trying to confirm at the moment a suggestion that the dog had been kept for security purposes .
5 We used the word " profile " to indicate that we are trying to look at a shape when we are selecting people , choosing a business to take over , assessing a deal , estimating a risk .
6 Erm , we we talked about this sort of issue earlier on , in in relationship to the , to the R A D. Erm , I 'm not quite sure of the strong importance of that organisation to the council , but I am sure that this erm , committee was set up by a number of south west authorities who are trying to look at the future of county farms .
7 Even if some of the signs of upturn , of turn around , of better things to come the government are trying to trumpet at the moment .
8 erm Part of the project that we 're on is trying to look at the possibility of tracing timber through from the forest right through to the end user , or at any rate , the sale at the saw-mill , in the same .
9 A bloke who was trying to get at the tomato purée gave him rather an odd look , but Quigley was not bothered .
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