Example sentences of "[is] [adv] try [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is still trying to arrange a concert for it in London . ’ |
| 2 | Despite this apparent endorsement , SCO wo n't say whether it has even made a decision yet , suggesting that it is still trying to picture a future for OSF/1 , given the lack of industry support for it and the shadows cast by OSF 's re-focusing . |
| 3 | So , Freud says , trying to build morality on the basis of religion , is like trying to build a house on sand , because the foundations wo n't hold . |
| 4 | it 's like trying to put a quart in a pint pot gon na dry them , it 's dry , manage to get it in , it 's awful |
| 5 | But it 's , it 's like trying to climb a mountain , is n't it , in a sense , you , it 's getting steeper and steeper as you get to the peak , so it gets harder and harder to get that last little bit . |
| 6 | He is also trying to finish a commerce degree at university , but the remarkable series of events which has seen South Africa catapulted into the cricketing limelight means that studies might have to take a back seat for at least 1992 . |
| 7 | He is also trying to find a manufacturer for a porcelain razor he designed for an exhibition in New York . |
| 8 | I think he 's really trying to hide a lack of direction in his work . ’ |
| 9 | Since he has been in Deerbolt , he has passed his GCSE 's and is now trying to get a place catering college when he gets out next year . |
| 10 | He 's simply trying to put a package together to sell to one of the big corporations — Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh or Zebaot International . |
| 11 | The government is plainly trying to generate a sense of nationalism , previously absent in this tribally divided country . |
| 12 | That it 's actually trying to enforce a pattern of family life that perhaps a lot of people do n't want ? |