Example sentences of "[noun pl] be try [to-vb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Researchers are trying to sort out the difference in genetic make-up both in cancers and in normal tissue . |
| 2 | In defining these limits , Christians are trying to carry out the pattern laid down by God , who created our sexuality . |
| 3 | The securities firms are trying to prop up the tumbling stockmarket by cutting the supply of new issues . |
| 4 | A statute of 1388 attempted to reinforce the Statute of Labourers , the measure enacted to control wages after the Black Death of 1348–49 , but attempts in 1389 to put it into practice showed that men were trying to shake off the stigma of villein tenure , even at the cost of taking a cash wage worth less in real terms than the combination of cash and food which they had been paid previously , insisting on working by the day rather than contracting for a yearly wage , and exploiting the possibility of alternative employment ( 65 , pp.92–5 ) . |
| 5 | The Slovaks are trying to rub out the use of Hungarian in officialdom . |