Example sentences of "we have been trying " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they were perfectly competent people and good at their jobs , they were never going to become part of the new culture which we have been trying to design for the Storehouse group . |
| 2 | We have been trying to focus in this study on those people within the enterprise who are in a position to effect strategic change ( or to maintain the status quo in the face of destabilising influences ) . |
| 3 | We have been trying to din into the heads of the electricity boards an inkling that different people are susceptible to different levels of radiation exposure and that there is no safe level . |
| 4 | We have been trying to stop the deteriorating effects of ageing on our skin since the times of the pharaohs . |
| 5 | We have been trying to lay on chances for each other . |
| 6 | Leigh chief executive John Stringer said : ‘ We have been trying to sign John for weeks . |
| 7 | And on 15 May , the morning of the Maurice debate , he recorded : ‘ We proceeded thus : S.B. — ’ You know , PM , that for ten years we have been trying to catch you deviating by an inch from the strict path of veracity and pin you down . |
| 8 | What we have been trying to do is to find " subsidy-free " prices which will cover the costs of the enterprise . |
| 9 | David said : ‘ We have been trying to promote a professional image and get away from everyone 's idea of school dinners or canteen catering . |
| 10 | We have lost it , I think , because we have been trying to lose the people and feelings it used to describe . |
| 11 | We have been trying to brief some Labour Members , especially the London Members . |
| 12 | We have been trying to extract the figures from the Opposition . |
| 13 | Secondly , we have been trying to develop an understanding of locality in human agency ; one responsive not only to social or cultural processes but also to instinctive demands and human interaction . |
| 14 | We have been trying for years , centuries , to establish this and it is only because of help from outside that we have been able to do it now . |
| 15 | There is no reason for fear or concern and that is the feeling we have been trying to get across . |
| 16 | We have been trying to breed Red Pandas for some time but they are very difficult . |
| 17 | Murray said : ‘ We have been trying for months to sign the right sort of player to replace Joe Allon . |
| 18 | ‘ We have been trying to raise the profile of the SGU and nothing , as far as I am concerned , raises it more than the Scottish Club Championship , ’ he said . |
| 19 | For a number of years we have been trying to upgrade the quality of our business , in terms of the technical content of products , the level of design we build in and the price we charge . |
| 20 | Through surveys and informal questioning and , more recently , partnerships we have been trying to do that . ’ |
| 21 | The second reason that , that we 're delighted to see you is that as a Trades Council we have been trying very hard over the last six or seven years to raise the profile of the trade union movement and this has been quite difficult in in during the Thatcher years , during the anti-trade union legislation , the onslaught by the media , trade unions er , the profile of trade unions has not been easy to raise . |
| 22 | I think that what we 're really looking for is a stimulating , exciting involvement of parents , of students , of teachers , of everyone who has an interest in the success of a school , and I think for some years at Cardinal Newman we have been trying to create this open society , which gives access at all levels to all the children and to their parents , and we do n't want to close the society in any shape or form . |
| 23 | I will not yield to the temptation to reflect on the problems that face this university and the Centre for Continuing Education as part of it , but I think that it 's fair to say that in the future we will be hard put to maintain the volume and variety of the contribution we have been trying to make to adult education in the community . |