Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [v-ing] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eager to lessen its dependence on the highly regulated and increasingly competitive British telecoms market , BT has been struggling to turn itself into a ‘ one-stop-shop ’ provider of global telecoms services for multinationals . |
| 2 | In this sense , social work has been struggling to free itself from the same trap as much of British industry . |
| 3 | Saddam Hussein disagrees with what the Kurds would like and has been trying to eradicate them from Iraq by killing them with his powerful army . |
| 4 | Its owner , Okan Guney , has been trying to breed them at this home in Kidlington for two years . |
| 5 | The $420m a year that America has been getting to compensate it for the loss in sales of farm products to Spain and Portugal after they joined the Community was due to run out in 1990 . |
| 6 | Mr Fitzwater reiterated President Bush 's denial earlier in the day that the United States , which has indicted General Noriega on drug trafficking charges and has been seeking to oust him for nearly two years , had initiated the revolt . |
| 7 | Secondly , the IBM Agent market does not welcome untried and untested ( new ) products with open arms , and Cognos has been attempting to prove itself in this market . |
| 8 | Heads of department from the Soviet trade union centre , the AUCCTU , are expected to visit Congress House in the New Year on a fact-finding mission , and there have been requests for training links to be built between the TUC and the Hungarian trade union body , SZOT , which has been attempting to restructure itself over the last two years . |
| 9 | I shall work in , because I mean I 'm the one who 's been pushing to get them on this . |
| 10 | He 's been trying to do something about the brambles and nettles . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Your father 's been trying to keep it from you . |
| 12 | she 's been trying to get something for the mother of the bride . |
| 13 | The film we 're going to see is Flatliners , and Denice tells us she 's been dying to see it for ages . |