Example sentences of "[be] try [verb] [art] [noun] " 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 | Now you 're trying to save a document now . |
| 4 | Erm it 's actually being done by a company called er for or with and I gather they 're trying to sell a database package . |
| 5 | Cos they 're trying to sell the things are n't |
| 6 | I think you 're trying to over-simplify the matter . |
| 7 | But they were then held in remand in prison , and did n't really know how to defend themselves , so this project will be sending lawyers into the Long Houses of the indigenous peoples , trying to educate them about the process of Malaysian law , and work it into their system of customary law , which is known as ADAT , whereby within the Long House , all the community leaders and the members within the community debate disputes over land rights , the forest , the use of it , and try and get them to use their customary law with a knowledge of the Malaysian legal process in order to form associations and fight being thrown into prison because they 're trying to defend the forest . |
| 8 | erm And as I said , we 're trying to , not that I 'm giving the opposite view to Doctor Plumtree , as I said , we 're trying to fund the people on the front line , you know , the foresters in their back yard , as it were , we 're trying to preserve it , and we also feel we 're not being patronising , it 's not like we 're writing out a large cheque and saying ’ here you are ’ , we 're actually putting a lot of time and effort into this , I mean , it 's now become a full time job for me and certainly for Dave Kester , and all the other people working on it . |
| 9 | ‘ Our method was to sit down and say : ‘ Look , Chris , I 'm not sure if this idea is working ’ , rather than Shaun 's approach which was to say : ‘ Allison , you 're the devil and you 're trying to destroy the group ’ , ’ says Gedge . |
| 10 | They 're trying to relieve the congestion on this Norwich Road |
| 11 | ‘ We 're trying to smooth the path for purchasers , and streamline the system , ’ says Graham Harrison , pointing out that live telephone bidding will also be available for those unable to attend . |
| 12 | ‘ Couple of my boys tell me you 're trying to earn a piece of that five grand I 'm putting up . |
| 13 | The other thing to remember , you 're trying to persuade the court to your views , or the view that you 're putting forward for your client , you 're not telling the court what they must think . |
| 14 | If you can clearly state what your objective is what you 're trying to persuade the audience to then everything you say supports that and you stand a better chance of being persuasive . |
| 15 | I know , I 'm saying we 're trying to improve the strength but we still have |
| 16 | Of course I accept that ruling entirely Mr Deputy Speaker but the point I was trying to make , I am going to give the speech very briefly indeed I do assure you , is that if you 're trying to assess the numbers er and the correctness of the numbers that are being er er going to vote for and indeed the boundaries associated with those numbers , it 's a perfectly I would have thought , fair question to ask oneself as they go off er from us as to what they are going off in to er and I I do assure you Mr Deputy Speake , I do n't plan to speak more than two minutes , two to three minutes on this matter , I do hope that you will allow me just to make a very brief point on this . |
| 17 | They 're trying to chuck the kids off they ca n't take care of them . |
| 18 | I , I totally agree with what they 're saying , but I 'm just worrying that we 're trying to do the job that the district councils are supposed to do . |
| 19 | Yes , right I agree entirely , and one of the points we 're making to Mr is that we were never consulted we were merely told this is happening , now we 're trying to put the report in in a positive way . |
| 20 | The one we'v we 're trying to put an age to . |
| 21 | When you 're trying to dribble the ball past opponents you might want to side-step him without changing direction . |
| 22 | We 're trying to lift the profile of every player and get everyone involved . |
| 23 | I mean , I 'm a bit cynical about great conferences , they 're important if you 're trying to set a tone , and they 're important if you want the press and the media involved , but actually it 's a smaller fora on the local basis , which actually produces much better results , in my opinion , but that 's the sort of thing I have in mind . |
| 24 | ‘ You ca n't have any real scruples about our supposed affair or we would n't be working for you , so I can only assume that you 're making this personal attack for the sheer hell of it , because you once got a kick out of disapproving of me — despising me — and you 're trying to recapture the thrill of it all . ’ |
| 25 | We 're trying to fix the problem by reducing costs — we have cut our staff to 40,000 from 60,000 at the end of 1992 . |
| 26 | Armed with powerful telescopes , they 're trying to spot a Peregrine Falcon chick , born just two weeks ago . |
| 27 | Now we do n't have any new things , I should have Thank you for asking the question because we 're trying to give the impression of a medieval house the what 's special about this is that it 's a medieval house as it looked when it was new . |
| 28 | And , the people that were milling around us when you 're trying to drink a cup of coffee stood up last year it was just the , you know , people are not |
| 29 | But you also need them in your team , because if you 're trying to solve a problem that is difficult , or what 's called a messy problem , we 'll come back to nice messy problems in a minute , you need somebody to come up with some good ideas , some ways of solving it . |
| 30 | ‘ We 're trying to change a direction of 12 years , take a new course ’ from the Reagan-Bush era , he told reporters before meeting Democratic congressmen . |