Example sentences of "have [be] try for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Authorities in Serbia again blocked a UN relief convoy which has been trying for days to reach the besieged Muslim enclave of Srebrenica .
2 Karen Gorbutt , 30 , from South London , has been trying for years to get her partner , Matthew Allen , 30 , to be considerate around the house .
3 A READER writes that she has been trying for weeks to find the outcome of the Prime Minister 's ‘ Taking Stock ’ exercise .
4 McLean is not the first bouncer to have been tried for Murder and certainly not the first bouncer to have been up on charges of serious violence .
5 The ancient Egyptians had been trying for centuries to prevent the export of their sacred felines .
6 Sylvia had been trying for years to overcome her claustrophobia , but with little or no success .
7 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 ) .
8 MIT members were shown , in detail , the market which they had been trying for years to service .
9 and I 've been trying for ages but there just has n't been any cos
10 I 've been trying for days , though , I 'm coming over tomorrow .
11 But if you can actually influence the French let us know because , or let the government know , because they , they 've been trying for years ever since Napoleon 's day , to try and do something .
12 Murray said : ‘ We have been trying for months to sign the right sort of player to replace Joe Allon .
13 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 .
14 We have been trying for years , centuries , to establish this and it is only because of help from outside that we have been able to do it now .
15 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 .
16 In these , soldiers have been tried for manslaughter or , if negligence can be proved , for murder .
17 There 's nothing new in that — she 's been trying for years .
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