Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In defining these limits , Christians are trying to carry out the pattern laid down by God , who created our sexuality . |
| 2 | I think it enables the young people that have been coming to those meetings to find out too the problems that Councillors and Local Authorities have in actually trying to carry out the sort of things they want . |
| 3 | I think it enables young , the young people that have been coming to those meetings to find out too the problems that councillors have and local authorities have , in actually trying to carry out the sorts of things they want . |
| 4 | ANALYSTS and advisers were yesterday lining up the next series of state asset sales and trying to see how the Government could increase the projected £19 billion over the next three years to reduce borrowing and fund tax cuts . |
| 5 | Waving his men into a pincer formation , Mortimer surprised the small group of machete-wielding rebels who were trying to wear down the staff of the building . |
| 6 | They believe the council , aware of its weak case in favour of the barrage , is trying to wear down the opposition by attrition . |
| 7 | Today , while Maudie was filling a grocery order to the delivered by hand , he had decided to amuse him self by trying to clamber up the shelves , and succeeded in pulling down several tins of treacle . |
| 8 | Her mother feared the trauma of being snatched from her could bring on an attack , and ran around frantically trying to find both the inhaler and the child 's tablets . |
| 9 | Conoco was trying to find out the cause of the leak , before it could decide how to stop it . |
| 10 | We are now trying to find out the details of this negative feedback system . |
| 11 | , writes : MY DAUGHTER is getting married in October and we are trying to find out the proper rules . |
| 12 | And we 're trying to find out the opp so we want something that ties up opp and adjacent . |
| 13 | The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office announced on March 22 that the UK and Czechoslovakia would co-operate in trying to find out the ultimate destination of the Semtex which had been exported to Libya . |
| 14 | He 's been in contact with his family , who are trying to find out the details of what happened . |
| 15 | He is now trying to pull down the house about the ears of Winchester 's Tories . |
| 16 | In truth , Diana got on rather well with Adeane , who introduced her to many of the women she accepted as her ladies-in-waiting while she was an enthusiastic matchmaker , continually trying to pair off the difficult bachelor with unattached ladies . |
| 17 | Enough light would spill inwards from the porch as the door closed slowly on its damper , enough at least for him to get to his own door and line up the key ; but when it came to it he hurried too much and was trying to shake out the Yale when the front door put him in darkness . |
| 18 | He walked away quickly , trying to shake off the unnerving effect of the encounter . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | Oxford United 's new owners are still trying to shake off the Maxwell legacy . |
| 21 | And that 's the problem facing conservationists who are trying to discover where the dormice are . |
| 22 | Why was she on this distant planet , trying to discover how the Althosian civilization was destroyed ? |
| 23 | A team of BR investigators , including British Transport Police , are trying to establish how the cows strayed on to the line . |
| 24 | So in the past few weeks Mr Yavlinsky , Vladimir Shcherbakov , the Soviet minister in charge of economics , and Yevgeny Primakov , an aide to Mr Gorbachev , have all visited America trying to work out the terms of an aid-for-economic-reform package . |
| 25 | He went on staring at the television screen , not listening to the next item , but trying to work out the puzzle . |
| 26 | A small , thin tabby , she spent her life trying to work out the central dilemmas of her life — how to get in and out of the house , and why the fat man called Henry tried to kick her every time the two other people in the house were out of the way . |
| 27 | ‘ I du n no why yer put up wi' it , ’ he sternly admonished the Captain , who was trying to work out the batting order on the back of his chequebook . |
| 28 | It gave us both lots of pleasure trying to work out the various clues , so we shall give ourselves a pat on the back for doing so well — hope you will have some more mind-boggling competitions in the future . |
| 29 | His mind was still trying to work out the puzzle she had set him . |
| 30 | Assessors are still trying to work out the full cost of the fire at the Spring Bank shopping centre , but initial estimates have been put at a quarter of a million pounds . |