Example sentences of "[noun prp] be trying [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keynes was trying to create a consensus around public works and his adoption of protection in the autumn of 1930 was almost certainly an attempt to enlist the support of the growing tariff lobby . |
| 2 | As its name suggests , MPEG is trying to define a standard for coding moving images and associated audio . |
| 3 | Representatives from Compaq Computer Corp 's East European headquarters in Munich are trying to arrange a meeting with the Slovakian government in an attempt to persuade it to ease the currency regulations adopted by the National Bank in February . |
| 4 | Labour MP Chris Mullin is trying to introduce a Bill making declaration a legal requirement to counter allegations of corruption . |
| 5 | It did n't seem to her that Timothy Gedge was trying to make a joke , yet it was amazing that he was saying all this just to pay them back for not being friendly or because he wanted a wedding-dress they would n't give him , or for any reason at all . |
| 6 | Some landowners on Dartmoor are trying to enforce a booking system and even payment for the use of facilities on their land such as rock outcrops for climbing . |
| 7 | Bell had been a teacher of the deaf , but one day , while he and his assistant Thomas Watson were trying to adjust a fault in Bell 's new ‘ musical telegraph ’ , he heard a ‘ twang ’ coming from the receiver . |
| 8 | For Marx is trying to develop a theory which will apply universally , and the fact ( if it is a fact ) that individuals who live in different societies do not share constant properties is enough to disqualify them from being the rock on which social explanations are founded . |
| 9 | Pc Barlow 's present dog , Ben , is due to retire later this year and the officer from Thorpe-le-Soken is trying to find a replacement . |
| 10 | Mark Williams , freelancing out of It , did some work , and fresh out of Oxford , Jonathon Green was trying to get a job in Fleet Street . |
| 11 | Furniture retailer Conroys is trying to engineer a compromise . |
| 12 | For the scene when Benjamin is trying to get a room key , Nichols suggested that Dustin find in his life what was the most painful thing for him to do that had a sexual connotation , in a public way . |
| 13 | A few yards down the bar , an unshaven Ray Milland was trying to exchange a typewriter for a bottle . |
| 14 | In El Salvador , the FMLN is trying to build a party and electoral apparatus in a climate where the killers of the past decade are still at large . |
| 15 | HEALTH Board officials in Belfast are trying to solve a hospital mystery . |
| 16 | Conservative MP David Shaw is trying to put a stop to their transactions with UK residents . |
| 17 | Armenia alleged that Azerbaijan was trying to open a corridor to the Azeri-populated Autonomous Region of Nakhichevan through Armenian territory . |
| 18 | Sometimes , when Henry was trying to write a letter of apology to the analyst for having quit , and wondering whether the man was all right — and when Finch was pondering the need to do the same thing — they would wander off together and watch Cecil coaching the people he referred to as ‘ the speaking parts . ’ |