Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [v-ing] to persuade the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time and again one gets the impression that the lawyer is trying to persuade the court that anyone other than his client was to blame for the accident . |
| 2 | Now Prof Oesterhelt 's team is trying to persuade the halobacteria to mass-produce human receptors instead . |
| 3 | The union is trying to persuade the bank to offer redundancy to staff who have already volunteered . |
| 4 | The federal government is trying to persuade the communes to give up their existing sales taxes and rely in future either on transfers from the budgets of the republics and provinces or on revenue raised by taxes on local incomes and property . |
| 5 | In this type of meeting one person or party is trying to persuade the others to a particular point of view . |