Example sentences of "[be] try [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " 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 | Another problem is that if you 're trying to deal with other manufacturers in the way that we do , where we have this extremely close relationship and they are very reliant on our forward forecasts of volume , they feel if you have your own manufacturing plant that you would always give preference to it in bad times and the other suppliers would be the people to suffer if sales declined . |
| 3 | But otherwise it 's basically I think it 's , it 's all there , all you 're trying to do at this stage is , is to give , your aim here is to get is to get firstly , first of all , to get it on the diary , on the picture editor 's diary for your picture , and also to get the basic information in so that somebody can write a few cards as an advance to say it is going to happen . |
| 4 | Er ours is a slightly more difficult task , I would suggest a much more difficult task , in that we 're trying to go for one certificate for the whole of the group . |
| 5 | Okay , let's swap over , what I want you to remember is it 's not a conversation it 's not the try not to get into a conversation what we 're trying to do is we 're trying to stick to one person 's trying to stick to their point the other person 's trying to take them off it , okay ? |
| 6 | The Women Artists Slide Library will be supporting both events in Madrid and in Graz and will be trying to participate in future talks about the development of IAWA and further opportunities for women artists generally . |
| 7 | As they reached the door she glanced down at the small flower bed which gardeners in the congregation were trying to cultivate with more optimism than success in the unrewarding soil at the side of the path . |
| 8 | When Paul was writing to the Galatians he was confronting the Judaisers who were trying to act as cultural imperialists . |
| 9 | It is an equivalent of Alcoholics Anonymous , that is , those who were trying to escape from frightening fundamentalism which had destroyed their lives . |
| 10 | There was litter , shoddiness , people here were no less commercial ( the contrary , they were trying to get in three days enough to balance out the winter ) , no less hasty . |
| 11 | The phenomenon I am trying to demonstrate in this chapter is seen in the most domestic of deposits . |
| 12 | Forgive the typed letter — bit impersonal , but I am trying to get to speedy grips with the little apple laptop powerbook 100 which I got when George was home — heaven alone knows how I would have done without it in the last few weeks . |
| 13 | A business relies on a driving personality taking it forward , and the confusion about getting somebody on board who is working with you in the business and who is putting money board , is that they feel to some extent , proprietorial to that business , and you can find that that will result in those individuals who have done that tearing apart the business because they are trying to go in different directions . |
| 14 | That 's what we are trying to do in that sub-committee which will meet for once perhaps and maybe twice . |
| 15 | At present many sheltered housing schemes are trying to cope with severe difficulties in relation to dementing tenants . |
| 16 | I think the important thing is that we do establish with the other professionals within the school a real understanding about what we are trying to achieve , an agreement and , as far as possible , a sharing of values between us as to what we are trying to achieve with these youngsters . |
| 17 | So as well as keeping you informed we are trying to encourage in NEW MEMBERS . |
| 18 | Still , those who manage Europe 's frequencies are trying to struggle with other problems . |
| 19 | One has been to include cognitive processes in the list of functions that they are trying to relate to particular brain regions or systems . |
| 20 | When we are trying to get into equal opportunities and , as I say , I agree with you entirely , but I still think that the best person for the job |
| 21 | the number of people that are trying to get towards this sort of diet that I 'm on . |
| 22 | Muslim-controlled Sarajevo radio reported that Serbs also launched attacks on Brcko and Gradacac , towns in a communications corridor the rebels are trying to establish across northern Bosnia . |
| 23 | They 've been trying to see about that lot where the boys ' grammar school is int they ? |
| 24 | We have both been trying to return to some semblance of normality . |
| 25 | So you see what I 've been , what I 've been trying to do in this lecture is to explain the , the modern biological basis which I think makes Freud 's findings intelligent . |
| 26 | You ca n't , take your point which we 've been trying to tackle at national account level |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ Even so , I 've been trying to get to this level for seven or eight years , even though I knew that people liked what I did . |
| 29 | Director Alvin Rakoff had problems with Crawford when it came to a crucial , very dramatic scene that he shared with Donald Pleasence , who was playing the police officer who could see a way to nailing the crook whom he had been trying to get for twenty years through his son . |
| 30 | Helen had been trying to learn for some time , but she found it very hard although Tony was endlessly patient with her . |