Example sentences of "[noun pl] be try [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All sensible people must with shame agree that it is a disgrace to our nation that we Germans are trying to suppress a German , to whom foreign countries have done justice by their great admiration and even by public acknowledgments in writing . |
| 2 | EXPERTS are trying to identify a baby snake which popped out of the toaster in Shelley Marshall 's flat at Hove , Sussex , on her 24th birthday . |
| 3 | It 's a bunch of people , Universities , Publishers , erm some funding from Central Government , some from er research councils of various kinds are trying to make a sort of record of current usage of the English language and I think Longmans are intr interested in it for example f from the point of view of dictionaries and stuff like that . |
| 4 | Hardliners are trying to overturn a decree by Russian President Boris Yeltsin banning the party . |
| 5 | They say that the Banks are trying to create a climate to lower expectations and thereby facilitate the making-up of minds for the final handshake from the Area Manager . |
| 6 | The fleet of balloons studding the Swindon skyline took second place to the collision but the organisers were trying to get a message across . |
| 7 | Members are trying to raise a petition against a decision to take the programme off the air for 18 months at the end of the current series . |
| 8 | Doctors are trying to find a cure for a four-year-old girl who 's allergic to eating . |
| 9 | At the far end of the hall a great pile of earth was growing steadily ; here the Sikhs were trying to dig a well . |
| 10 | And if you cast your minds way back to Tuesday you will remember that what I said was that the Americans were trying to create a system of limited government er and yet one which er protected the liberties of individuals not all individuals , not black individuals especially but of individuals , this was the rhetoric of the time and the main device that they invented to do this was something called the separation of powers and they argued that , where political power is concentrated , the potential for abuse is greater so that where executive and legislative powers are held in the same hands , as they are in our system of government , the , there is more prospect of government encroaching upon the rights of individuals . |
| 11 | Detectives are trying to trace a charity worker who was due back in Britain today to face questioning about missing funds . |
| 12 | Police are trying to hook a thief who stole specialised fishing equipment worth more than £1,300 . |
| 13 | Houston police are trying to find a man who has succeeded in getting teenage girls to pose nude for him by saying they will appear in a music video for NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK . |
| 14 | Police are trying to identify a man who 's body was discovered in a barn destroyed by fire . |
| 15 | Such gatherings were called wapenshaws and one test of skill for archers was trying to dislodge a model of a parrot , called a papingo , from the top of a high tree or tower . |
| 16 | My hon. Friend the Member for Belfast , East ( Mr. Robinson ) and I understood that the basis of the talks was to try to secure a replacement for the Anglo-Irish Agreement and to make arrangements to safeguard the administration of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom . |
| 17 | Can I just say colleagues before you , you second the motion , there is this hubbub again that 's growing , I mean it seems to go down and I do n't know perhaps it 's like the tide but can we try and keep it a bit lower , especially when colleagues are trying to make a speech from the rostrum . |