Example sentences of "[been] try [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His one catastrophic mistake had been to try to settle the mystery for ever by making Harry disappear . |
| 2 | But one can not deny that a more scientific decision would have been to try to make the return of the offending plates obligatory , so that only the accurate , authentic figures were permitted circulation . |
| 3 | Since taking over from Left-winger David Hunt , former Thatcherite Mr Redwood has been trying to reassure the Welsh that there will be no dramatic change in Welsh Office policy . |
| 4 | For thirty years I 've been trying to give an affirmative reply to that question . |
| 5 | In addition to normal responsibilities , which include making new investments , approaching new potential customers and keeping existing customers happy , Mr Queen says that they have been trying to educate the professional community to recognise when a company is going to need more working capital . |
| 6 | A committee of three ministers — Roger Freeman ( transport ) , Francis Maude ( Treasury ) and John Redwood ( trade and industry ) — has been working on the railway sell-off ; and the group drafting the Tory election manifesto has been trying to distil the trio 's ideas into an appetising few paragraphs . |
| 7 | One of the main themes of lesbian feminism of the last years has been trying to create a forum in which women can talk about sex , feel happy about sex , and consume sexually explicit material without guilt . ’ |
| 8 | On all three issues conservatives in the Soviet Communist Party and army have been trying to reverse the combination of change at home and co-operation with America abroad . |
| 9 | He had drunk three glasses of home-made wine and had been trying to watch a film on television , but was unable to get interested in it . |
| 10 | The divisions are certainly latent , but the very manner in which , especially since President Muawad 's assassination , Syria has been trying to enforce the peace plan — with such haste , threats and bluster — tends to blunt rather than sharpen them . |
| 11 | We have lost it , I think , because we have been trying to lose the people and feelings it used to describe . |
| 12 | Militant Hindus have been trying to destroy the mosque at Ayodhya for years because they believe it was built by the 16th Century Moslem invaders . |
| 13 | We have been trying to stop the deteriorating effects of ageing on our skin since the times of the pharaohs . |
| 14 | FOR SEVERAL years , my husband has been trying to join the Labour Party . |
| 15 | Pepita had been trying to remember the events that led up to being bitten by the black widow spider . |
| 16 | Habitually a somewhat forgetful person , I had also for a couple of days been trying to remember the name of the director of the film Such Good Friends . |
| 17 | They have been trying to design a new force structure that would both live within the expected budget cuts and be capable of responding effectively to all imaginable crises . |
| 18 | However , he also thought she might have been trying to demonstrate the extent of her distress to her family and possibly to her husband . |
| 19 | Bella had been trying to push the walking-frame along and carry the tea at the same time . |
| 20 | Since their overwhelming vote for independence in a 1991 referendum , the Ukrainians have been trying to choose the West . |
| 21 | I I 've I 've been trying to see the 's about it and about getting copies of some of his poems so that people could see them you know . |
| 22 | He had been trying to reach the doctor they used but the man was out . |
| 23 | IBM has been trying to negotiate a deal with the Open Software Foundation to buy outright re-distribution rights to an OSF/1 single server running under Mach 3.0 on PS/2s . |
| 24 | I had been trying to negotiate the Friday lunch-time run , which was the most lucrative , office-party wise , as ER was always on the lookout for reliable drivers who could not only deliver their people but hang around and pick them up . |
| 25 | But he has been trying to unload the firm since last year to help his debt-laden holding company , BTF , and clear the way for him to pursue his political career . |
| 26 | He 'd just been trying to squeeze a split-shot on to his line and it had popped out of his fingers . |
| 27 | For several years BR had been trying to persuade the government to authorise the East Coast main line electrification ; after considerable discussion this was eventually agreed in July 1984 . |
| 28 | Donors , including the EC and the World Bank , have been trying to persuade the Kenyan government to privatize grain marketing since 1984 . |
| 29 | In the past few years , many systematists have been trying to improve the scientific rigour of their subject , mostly by reformulating it in accord with Popperian-type hypothetico-deductive methods . |
| 30 | For more than 50 years Oxfam has been trying to improve the fabric of society in some of the world 's poorest regions . |