Example sentences of "[noun sg] have be trying [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For 20 years ’ , said Mr Beckman , ‘ the European Community has been trying to agree on air fares . |
| 2 | Noise from vehicles is something the Government has been trying to tackle for more than 20 years . |
| 3 | But it is also a lesson that Yucatan 's businessmen and its state government have been trying to impress on investors from the United States — with controversial results . |
| 4 | Timid winds of change had been trying to blow in Spanish universities since 1951 , when a relatively progressive Minister of Education , Joaquin Ruiz-Giménez , had initiated an attempt to revitalize and open up the torpid and reactionary Spanish education system . |
| 5 | There then appeared a chink of light when we were advised by Mr F. Musgrave of Saintfield that he wished to sell the site of the former Ballynahinch Junction Station , a site which the Trust had been trying to secure for the past 20 years . |
| 6 | In a speech that blended music-hall style with soap-box rhetoric , the veteran left wing MP for Bolsover , said : ‘ For too long the Labour Party has been trying to follow in the wake of Mrs Thatcher 's agenda . |