Example sentences of "[be] trying [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mankind is a dominant species because it 's adaptable , and you 're trying to stop the natural methods of evolution for your own rotten reasons and … ’ |
| 2 | You 're trying to do the same thing but whereas in feudal exploitation |
| 3 | So we 're trying to unite the two things together . |
| 4 | Well we know the opposite and we 're trying to find the adjacent . |
| 5 | Now as soon as you 've got a minus X and you 're trying to take it over to one side , and you 're trying to bring the other one over , there 's a good chance that something 's going |
| 6 | And when you 're trying to impress the opposite sex , a foot-long bundle of foliage might just not cut it . |
| 7 | They 're trying to make the bottom bit look decent now , they keep buying things for it , but it never looks right you ca n't see it from here , we 'll go out and look at the garden after tea . " |
| 8 | al al although you you 're trying to make the same but you do try and change tack a bit |
| 9 | So , no you wo n't know that we 're trying to get the two pilots out of er |
| 10 | I suppose what it really amounts to , it 's probably someone who 's in the same line of business and they 're trying to get the best way are n't they ? |
| 11 | Slow , badly coordinated vector graphics are awful at the best of times , but when they 're trying to convey the scintillating action of such a classic film their inadequacy is more poignant . |
| 12 | Sure I 'm trying to earn the five grand , no harm in that , is there ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm trying to explain the complete breakdown in communications . |
| 14 | I 'm trying to avoid the excess cost . |
| 15 | Sorry , I 'm trying to find the right bit of paper . |
| 16 | Students often object to the expense of textbooks , but remember that all your friends will be trying to borrow the best textbooks from the college library . |
| 17 | Diplomats think that by releasing General Tin Oo now , General Ne Win may be trying to counter the growing power of the MIS head , Khin Nyunt . |
| 18 | At the same moment you may be trying to tell the same editor an agreed version of what is happening at your client 's company . |
| 19 | You ca n't use the double-width switch with transfer lace , because the first needle to transfer will be trying to transfer the second of the two needles that are transferring . |
| 20 | From the beginning , Frohnmayer seemed to be trying to please the avant-garde artistic community while at the same time proclaiming his own high moral stance he actually is the possessor of a degree in Christian ethics from the University of Chicago . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The director also seems to be trying to satirise the fashionable filmmaking of the day by having Cleavon Little play a French-speaking director with a hand-held camera . |
| 23 | A few enthusiasts within the midst of the crowd were trying to dance the Eightsome Reel , which in the circumstances was a little like trying to stage a boxing match in a telephone box ; not totally impossible , just pointless . |
| 24 | Britain 's economic problems added to the sensitivity of her leaders , and to the conviction that the Americans were trying to undermine the British Empire just as they had destroyed that of the Dutch in Indonesia in the late 1940s . |
| 25 | An immediate offensive might have given victory in Scotland and enabled him to march into England , where Thomas Forster and the Earl of Derwentwater were trying to raise the northern shires on behalf of the Jacobites . |
| 26 | It was a bare room without a carpet , and in it , he and the Adjutant were trying to conceal the real terror they were feeling . |
| 27 | These people were already showing that they were trying to make the best and rebuild their lives . " |
| 28 | These latter writers were trying to re-enter the lost world of childhood after first discarding the traditional concept of the afterlife . |
| 29 | There was some speculation that the kidnap groups in Lebanon were trying to add the Lebanese Hamadei brothers to the list of those who might included in an arrangement for a staged release of Western , Israeli and Palestinian hostages and prisoners . |
| 30 | Richard Morris , Paul Rayner and Kevin Greenhill , from High Wycombe , Bucks , were trying to win the Chief Scout Award badge when the rain forced them to shelter in a tiny tent they were carrying . |