Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] trying [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Giuliani campaign — advised by Roger Ailes , the media guru who turned the Bush campaign around — has been trying to persuade Jewish voters that Mr Dinkins is a clone of Jesse Jackson and no friend of Israel . |
| 2 | The minister of agriculture and resettlement , Kumbirai Kangai , has been trying to reassure white farmers . |
| 3 | And about 500 yards away in Neasham Road , Mr John Atkinson , company director of Profix Fabrication , has been trying to find new markets for his steel products . |
| 4 | In Britain , the government has been trying to encourage commercial recyclers such as waste-paper merchants to join forces with the packaging industry to give more packaging a second life . |
| 5 | A Tory friend of mine who has been trying to write nice things about the Conservative campaign has been tearing his hair out in desperation , not just because they are doing so badly — but because they deserve to . |
| 6 | China is North Korea 's closest ally and has been trying to defuse recent tensions . |