Example sentences of "[noun] have be try [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Kemp has been trying for several years to prod the White House into launching a serious anti-poverty programme . |
| 2 | Brian Clough has been trying for several weeks to recapture the man he sees as a key player in his fight to lift Forest off the bottom of the Premier League . |
| 3 | This , then is the state of affairs which Rigoberta Menchu has been trying for the past 11 years to bring to the world 's attention — an almost impossible task , given the fact that for most of that time the international press found Nicaragua and El Salvador much more diverting . |
| 4 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had been trying for many years to raise sufficient money to build the Pavilion , and indeed had sold the Harrison Towns field some three years previously for this very reason . |
| 5 | Various methods have been tried for producing this ‘ ground ’ . |
| 6 | Ravi Shastri has been tried before but was unable to unite the team behind him and Sachin Tendulkar , 20 , is far too young to be destroyed by politics . |
| 7 | Nella also sensed that an exorcism had been tried on more than one occasion — but without success . |
| 8 | To the physician 's consternation , he had been informed that the girl had been tried in the Shari'a ( the law of God ) courts and found guilty of fornication . |
| 9 | Inevitably we have n't held er er they have n't been able to hold up that new members this year and er the main job has been trying to er keep quite a number of the members who were recruited er to the gen following er the general election . |
| 10 | Curtis Fleming has been tried at centre half in two recent Central League games but lacks experience for a key job . |
| 11 | Indeed , an attempt at reform had been tried in 1977 and failed . |
| 12 | To offer a perhaps extreme example , the Gloucestershire clothiers who celebrated the completing in 1779 – 82 of the Stroudwater Canal had been trying since 1730 to intercept the coal supplies moving down the Severn from the pits of the Midlands . |
| 13 | My head was n't really in the right state for assimilating all this stuff , but as far as I could gather , Uncle Rory had been trying for years to come up with something Creative ( his capital , his italics ) . |
| 14 | Sylvia had been trying for years to overcome her claustrophobia , but with little or no success . |
| 15 | Great local artists like Gilberto Gil have been trying for years to promote their country 's music , but ( as with the African-music boom ) it has taken the combination of an enthusiastic American super-star and cosmopolitan French audiences to really make the change . |
| 16 | ‘ Daddy 's been trying like mad to get hold of some . |
| 17 | The ancient Egyptians had been trying for centuries to prevent the export of their sacred felines . |
| 18 | Experiments with such regulations had been tried in other towns and cities during the 1980s , but had met little success . |
| 19 | I would have thought that most things have been tried by now and I would not imagine that there are many other avenues to be followed . |
| 20 | Le-eyo was distinguished by an error which mankind has been trying to right ever since . |
| 21 | Naturally the next field in which to try out this half-truth was politics , where people have been trying since the time of Demosthenes to fool all of the people all of the time . |
| 22 | A number of experiments with financial incentives to reduce rubbish have been tried on both sides of the Atlantic , and others have been considered . |
| 23 | The US has been trying for a decade to clinch the deal , not least because it would give its nuclear forces control of what is seen as the strategically vital Pacific zone and a new set of options if its Philippine naval and air bases are threatened . |
| 24 | Astrophil has been trying in the sonnet to proceed by imitation and been singularly unsuccessful in doing so . |
| 25 | Mr Clarke 's solicitor said as it was the first time the new offence had been tried under the 1991 Road Traffic Act they would be considering an appeal against sentence . |
| 26 | Mr and Mrs Allen had been trying for a child for 19 years and were overjoyed when Laura was born . |
| 27 | Similar mud-slinging exercises have been tried on the Princess of Wales , but somehow the mud does not stick . |
| 28 | Scientists have been trying for years to realize the potential of hydrogen , but they have been thwarted by the problem of storing the gas , which is highly explosive and needs to be kept in high-pressure containers . |
| 29 | Credit controls have been tried in the past in Britain , and proved arbitrary and ineffective . |
| 30 | They 're opening the gates of the Manor Ground for the first time this season tomorrow … new signing Anton Rogan has been trying on his shirt today … |