Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , litigation practitioners looking for early rights of audience in the higher courts have shown remarkable tolerance of the delays necessarily involved in trying to secure the same rights for solicitors in commerce , industry and the public service . |
| 2 | He is still trying to sail the same course but the boat is just sliding sideways across the water . |
| 3 | Any attempt to quantify the relative intelligences of species — and even of human beings from different cultural backgrounds — is quite patently misguided : one is trying to apply the same measure to two qualitatively different things . |
| 4 | Fortunately , the crew were not then aware that in recent recorded history three men had perished trying to walk the same route in midwinter . |
| 5 | There are detectives and DCIs and Chief Supers and Commanders every fucking where ; more tecs and CID guys and Anti-Terrorism Squad chaps and regional guys than you can shake a nightstick at , all asking questions , all asking the same fucking questions and me trying to give the same fucking answers ; seeing DI McDunn , sucking saliva through his teeth and letting me share.his B&Hs , is like meeting an old pal even though he 's got all his questions too . |
| 6 | Paula Yates is positioned as the fluffy bimbo , and Muriel Gray is the one who stalked through the set being rather rude to the bands and deconstructing the whole female persona ; I think she 's trying to do the same now with the chat show . |
| 7 | ‘ America is so big that bands are n't surrounded by other bands trying to do the same thing . |
| 8 | But the idea of trying to do the same was impossible for Midlander like me — the nearest reservoir was over 20 miles away and after a couple of circuits would soon have lost its charm . |
| 9 | America 's airlines will not welcome another foreign rival trying to do the same — especially a state-owned carrier . |
| 10 | Omri Serlin notes in his ’ FT Systems ’ newsletter that IBM is out to establish CICS as an industry standard , positioning it to compete with USL 's Tuxedo , Transarc Corp Encina and NCR Corp 's Top End and clearly threatening USL which is trying to do the same for Tuxedo . |
| 11 | HP would know something about the exercise since it 's trying to do the same thing and the best it 's been able to come up with is the diskless 16Mb 715/33 for $5,700 or 525Mb 715/33 for $7,400 . |
| 12 | Such success for developing countries is not always the case , even in the same industry ; Bolivia has had a sorry experience in trying to do the same as its Eastern rivals , but has suffered from a critical lack of expertise . |
| 13 | It 's trying to do the same work with the smaller amount of blood as it did with the full amount , ten pints perhaps reduced down to seven , got to keep pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , because that little bit of blood has got to get round and do a lot more work now , okay , so the blood 's rushing round and the heart is pushing faster because it 's having to , because it 's not enough of the , not so much pressure there , that 's why it feels weak , weak and fast , okay ? |
| 14 | Last night , Sam had tried to manipulate Clare , and now her grandmother was trying to do the same thing on his behalf . |
| 15 | As I say the present day er premier just now is actually trying to do the same thing as a repeat performance |
| 16 | The other manufacturers are trying to do the same but I think some of them are a bit behind Rover and they 've got to catch up . |
| 17 | and you 've got to try and get round them , oh god , there 's about six thousand trying to do the same thing . |
| 18 | You 're trying to do the same thing but whereas in feudal exploitation |
| 19 | Alright , logging the data does n't change the nature of the data , what it does do is that it re-scales the data , okay so the only thing that 's , that 's , that 's changed by logging , right , is the scale of the cr is the vertical scale on the graph , right , but essentially we are still trying to model the same series and N T C is essentially the same series as T C. |
| 20 | Having the same general intention is not the same as trying to solve the same problem . |
| 21 | At a certain level of abstraction there is a sense in which any speech processing mechanism is trying to solve the same search problem ( see Goodman & Reddy 1980 ) . |
| 22 | Like advertising , it relies on the viewer 's instant recognition , while trying to shock the same viewer out of this automatic reaction . |
| 23 | Trying to repeat the same one . |
| 24 | In a sense and a I 'm not sure if it 's only in a sense , that , that when we talk now of say are n't we trying to approach the same ? |
| 25 | AT the store on the corner , three drunken men are trying to eat the same hot dog . |
| 26 | AT the store on the corner , three drunken men are trying to eat the same hot dog . |
| 27 | AT the store on the corner , three drunken men are trying to eat the same hot dog . |
| 28 | I spent hours at one of those ‘ so many ’ stone circles near Garrynahine trying to get the same angle as JTR to no avail . |
| 29 | my Lord all that follows now is that question costs in this my Lord there is no doubt that er this is the painful experience for both the plaintiffs and of course for doctor who is unrepresented and therefore must inevitably feel rather isolated in this matter erm , however in my there is no reason to er depart from the usual principal of the costs which should follow the event and of course we know as it the loss on the subsidiary appeal and so I do n't press the point on that cos the reality as you 've already probably anticipated is all the work has been done erm on this appeal the subsidiary appeal I ask , I do n't ask for costs on that , in my submission it should be both sides bear their own costs on that , the reason I say that is that there was no , there was no cross appearing in respect on it in effect , cos after all , all you were doing was er trying to get the same as the other side if we lost , so no worm of can of beans can be done by doctor I had one parallel in my whole skeleton on that , er , but we have substantially succeeded on the main issue and so I , I would ask that costs in favour of the plaintiffs on , on that and here and indeed below . |
| 30 | The Roots , a drawing done at about the same time as Sorrow , was conceived quite deliberately as a companion piece , He paired them because he was trying to say the same thing in both . |