Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] been trying [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ICI has been trying to develop substitutes for halons 1211 and 1301 , but as yet none of the agents under trial match their performance . |
| 2 | The divisions are certainly latent , but the very manner in which , especially since President Muawad 's assassination , Syria has been trying to enforce the peace plan — with such haste , threats and bluster — tends to blunt rather than sharpen them . |
| 3 | Bella had been trying to push the walking-frame along and carry the tea at the same time . |
| 4 | They also took private papers relating to the large South Ronaldsay family Mr and Mrs T had been trying to help , and a library book written by a social worker on sexual abuse . |
| 5 | Pepita had been trying to remember the events that led up to being bitten by the black widow spider . |
| 6 | IBM has been trying to negotiate a deal with the Open Software Foundation to buy outright re-distribution rights to an OSF/1 single server running under Mach 3.0 on PS/2s . |
| 7 | The money from US West will help its balance sheet , which Mr Levin has been trying to clean up . |
| 8 | Since taking over from Left-winger David Hunt , former Thatcherite Mr Redwood has been trying to reassure the Welsh that there will be no dramatic change in Welsh Office policy . |
| 9 | Was that what Carol had been trying to tell him ? |
| 10 | For about four centuries the rulers of England had been trying to conquer and rule France , Scotland , and Ireland , but they had just lost their last foothold in France at Calais , their position in Ireland was as insecure as it had ever been , and the Scottish problem had taken an altogether new turn because Mary the Queen of Scotland could present a good claim to the English throne . |
| 11 | Staff at the police photographic department , Ministry of Defence laboratories and IBM have been trying to improve the original blurred images of the youths . |
| 12 | Which one , yeah that 's the one that erm Kim 's been trying to get Lorraine the Bennetton one . |
| 13 | Karen 's been trying to do that . |
| 14 | This is negotiated on an individual basis , but Mike Lester has been trying to relate all new contracts to turnover between a range of £5,250 ( turnover £80,000 ) to £7,500 ( turnover £200,000 plus ) . |
| 15 | Also because Susan Hart had been trying to reach me through my office . |
| 16 | Helen had been trying to learn for some time , but she found it very hard although Tony was endlessly patient with her . |
| 17 | Samsung has been trying to discard its somewhat downmarket image for some time . |
| 18 | For more than 50 years Oxfam has been trying to improve the fabric of society in some of the world 's poorest regions . |
| 19 | Oxfam has been trying to help the refugees er in the area , but Tony Jackson just back from Cambodia says it 's becoming harder for many to survive . |
| 20 | Fujitsu has been trying to expand its share by offering massive discounts . |
| 21 | The lessons which Donaldson has been trying to teach us are reflected throughout the following chapters . |
| 22 | Mr Aznar has been trying to exploit their success by taking time out of his campaign to visit Jacques Chirac ( and , for some reason , John Major ) . |
| 23 | Which is a lot is n't it really , once we come down to it , you know we 've had a two solid hours of what God has been trying to teach us today . |
| 24 | The Klan has been trying to recruit a new type of kid : young , middle-class and white . |
| 25 | For several years BR had been trying to persuade the government to authorise the East Coast main line electrification ; after considerable discussion this was eventually agreed in July 1984 . |
| 26 | The journalist Robert Katz had been trying to interest producers in a film adaptation of his extensive account last year in Esquire magazine of the battle between Willem de Kooning and his daughter . |
| 27 | In the UK , SAS has been trying to build a relationship with ICL plc for the last three or four years — with little success . |
| 28 | Two fur traders from the French settlement of New France on the banks of the St. Lawrence had been trying to convince their employers that the best way to develop the trade was to set up bases on Hudson Bay to which the Indians could come in their canoes down all the rivers that flowed into the Bay . |
| 29 | Peter had been trying to prove they should have left him behind ; it had been his father 's idea that he should go , needing the practice if he was ever to go hunting . |
| 30 | Minginish has been trying to keep me here , in the Rorim . |