Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether one is ‘ sticking close to the knitting ’ ( Peters and Waterman , 1982 ; Redding , 1990 ) by focusing only on what one knows well , in a family business , or whether one is involved in imperatively co-ordinating only a fairly specific range of business-related activity , as in typical Japanese enterprises , leaving the broader picture to the inter-market relations and to state planning , one is certainly involved in a far more restricted and less audacious exercise of planning than one would be in trying to plan the twenty or thirty unrelated businesses of the typical conglomerate . |
| 2 | Now , if I do n't go to this phone , what would that look like , it would n't be just dialling , would it , she lied , I 'm just trying to compare the two , because they are quite different . |
| 3 | A particular difficulty in trying to estimate the ninety-three , four er position , was erm , stemmed from er , the independence of further education colleges . |
| 4 | The firm had also been asked by the Bank to make a s 41 report and was trying to finalise the 1990 accounts , which had been delayed by the lack of access to ICIC . |
| 5 | No press release was made and I experienced extraordinary difficulties in trying to obtain the 1985 échelle des crus , Quite why this historic event was clothed in such secrecy is a mystery . |
| 6 | To force together two protons that are initially far apart , for example those in two separate hydrogen atoms , is like trying to encourage the two north poles of a pair of magnets to join at a distance of less than a billionth of a millimetre . |
| 7 | What I was erm doing was trying to identify the three er characteristics of the er Maoist Communist Party as it emerged towards the end of the nineteen thirties which really disqualifies it , I think , from the label Marxist , means that it 's a completely different type of organization to what the Chinese Communist Party had been in the nineteen twenties . |
| 8 | But until it does , constant confusion arises from trying to combine the two approaches . |
| 9 | Henry is trying to trace the two men with whom he has struck up an acquaintance : |
| 10 | Trying to keep the two sides apart . |
| 11 | Harper 's next test will be a 12hour race at Darlington on March 29 , when he will be trying to break the 55–59 category outdoor 50 miles record of 6 hours 46 secs . |
| 12 | So , no you wo n't know that we 're trying to get the two pilots out of er |
| 13 | However , the plight of students is well known to every hon. Member and it is absurd , especially in Scotland , that local authorities are trying to collect the 20 per cent . |
| 14 | So we 're trying to unite the two things together . |
| 15 | Sure I 'm trying to earn the five grand , no harm in that , is there ? ’ |
| 16 | I waded over it , trying to drag the four hundredweight on its side , and when all else failed , I beat it with my fist , kicked and cursed and pleaded with it to try harder . |
| 17 | in getting , trying to bring the four together again |
| 18 | The Russians are certainly trying to bring the two sides together for talks and end the fighting , but , so far , they are finding it a hard row . |