Example sentences of "trying a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty eight year old Susan Magill has been trying a homoeopathic approach to help her improve her diet and lose weight . |
| 2 | Forty-seven passengers died when a British Midland Airways Boeing 737 trying a forced landing hit an embankment at Kegworth , Leics , in 1989 . |
| 3 | Trying a pure tone stimulus , light flashes , and a water spray on an exposed part of the body , Dement and Wolpert found that the water spray was most effective in influencing the content of dreams ( although this stimulus also tended to wake the subjects up ! ) . |
| 4 | It was no use trying a friendly smile because you immediately developed a long line of followers and felt like a comet with a tail . |
| 5 | I have been trying a new range of foods from OSI , an American company with a good reputation in the States , which manufactures a massive range of both freshwater and marine food products . |
| 6 | In recent years , however , some scientists have been trying a new approach , ‘ cold fusion ’ , which involves ‘ changing ’ the behaviours of atoms at room temperatures . |
| 7 | Corgi is trying a new approach and has broken away from the single figure on the cover , giving this one an old master oil painting reproduction which makes it more sophisticated . |
| 8 | Growth choices usually involve some element of risk — trying a new sport or hobby , changing your job , starting or ending a relationship , making new friends , going abroad , redecorating , moving house , joining a campaign group , being more open about your feelings , changing your routine or behaving in a way which is ‘ out of character ’ . |
| 9 | Each board has slightly different turning characteristics so when trying a new board it takes a while to learn where to put the back foot . |
| 10 | Actually , I am trying a new strategy . |
| 11 | Anyway , I 'd been staying with them in darkest Kensington , at Mr Gibbon 's very grand , three-storeyed town-house in Ascot Square , just off Addison Road , and working at a branch of Mondo-Food on Victoria Street ( they were trying a new line in Haggisburgers at the time and the manager thought my accent would help shift them . |
| 12 | Rewards ( reinforcement ) can be offered for finishing a meal , eating quietly at the table without getting up , or trying a new food . |
| 13 | And ‘ it ’ might be a frantic drive down the coast for a weekend over the border into Mexico , or a trip into the wine-growing country beyond the Berkeley hills , or trying a new recipe involving chocolate sauce and lobster claws or something equally revolting . |
| 14 | Some British colleagues thought it was overweight and underpowered , so after trying a right-hand drive 1.8GL version recently , I looked up with some trepidation what I had said about the car on my voting form six months ago . |
| 15 | What seems to have happened here ( as on other matters ) is a division of Opinion between the ETS committee who may have been quite sincere in trying a long-term solution — and the knee-jerk reaction of the membership against the permanent acceptance of women as compositors which the project undeniably contained . |
| 16 | Astra is trying a similar route . |
| 17 | I , I 'm trying a little French at the moment cos |
| 18 | He stumbled on , occasionally trying a little jogging run . |
| 19 | With mild behavioural symptoms , it may be better to cope with them in other ways , rather than trying a dietary approach . |
| 20 | Recently some people have been trying a different approach , seeing if they can change the nature of the atoms such that fusion can occur at a useful rate even at room temperature . |
| 21 | And we 're trying a different approach both mentally and physically , and I believe he can be a new person even after ten years . |
| 22 | Although the names looked at so far dip more than a toe into this price region , we feel like trying a different brand . |
| 23 | The three major national firms are each trying a different solution . |
| 24 | This week , Zoe Muir has been updating us on the progress of our five Lunchtime dieters who have each been trying a different method of losing weight . |
| 25 | It was expected that Noriega 's appeal would question the legal basis for trying a foreign head of state taken into custody during a US military invasion and who now claimed to be a prisoner of war . |
| 26 | It may also be worth trying a herbal tea , called taheebo or pau d'arco — it is said to have anti-fungal properties , although this has not been verified scientifically . |