Example sentences of "be try [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But ca n't you see how foolish you are to try to handle this by yourself ? ’ |
| 2 | One red herring that has been produced by increased language awareness among teachers has been to try to rewrite academic texts so that pupils can cope with them . |
| 3 | Problem is , we 're trying to save this union . |
| 4 | Well you see exactly which is why , I mean we 're getting into problems here because we 're trying to say that one character equals one thing and it 's not that , it 's you know Nick he 's a scientist , he 's a biologist , he also represents in a way Russia , he also represents , you know , kind of erm the new of the young threatening the old . |
| 5 | And you 're trying to amalgamate all the unions together to make it easier for them . |
| 6 | And i I you know , it it just looks as though erm they 're trying to force more and more onto the voluntary erm centres and the voluntary organizations , to provide resources and to provide help . |
| 7 | So what the parents are doing is they 're rewarding the duckling that runs the furthest and the fastest , to erm , they 're trying to reinforce that behaviour , because what they 're are trying to do , is get the ducklings away from the nest and start looking for , for food for themselves , presumably . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't you talk in that disgusting way to me , keep it for your clever friends who 're trying to turn this fine country into a nest of crawling , grovelling , filthy snakes . ’ |
| 9 | I think we 're losing track of what this actually is Paul , there are , you 're trying to do two things at once what you 're trying to do , I think is use it as a learning process for children but this is an annual report for parents and I think that part of it a at least surely must be a report by the sa member of staff , by the department on how the child has done , by the member staff . |
| 10 | That 's what we 're trying to do all You know that 's that 's that 's just our job , that 's how we 're we 're looking at buildings . |
| 11 | For the future of course , we have now erm negotiated with Eurofighter a rather better arrangement , they 're setting up a joint team , they 're trying to do all the work in one place and they really are now making a lot of progress . |
| 12 | My argument is it 's being done all in one go that we 're trying to do nine on one day . |
| 13 | Well surely we 're trying to do this in the way of neighbourhood watch |
| 14 | Well I do n't know yet , we 're trying to sort that one out , we 're trying to either put the load back or get another order to go with it . |
| 15 | You have the problem of how much to tax because on the one hand you 're trying to promote this rich peasant economy and not erm tax them too heavily because you do n't want to , them to not invest with |
| 16 | Well they 're trying to set this trial are n't they ? |
| 17 | At the moment we 're trying to formulate some standard policies on treatment and are trying to resolve problems of obtaining equipment , drugs etc . |
| 18 | ‘ If you 're trying to link poor Vicente with your niece 's abduction … ’ |
| 19 | Really we 're trying to give young people a voice , put them in the driving seat . |
| 20 | You 're trying to see more than exists , and so you 're squinting . ’ |
| 21 | And they 're trying they 're trying to compile one of these things . |
| 22 | ‘ We 're trying to package that with Sony , using our anthology as the first example of the technology . |
| 23 | But that that phrase in the structure plan approved in nineteen eighty I think does give some weight to what we 're trying to address this morning . |
| 24 | how they do when th they 're trying to scare some of them off . |
| 25 | And there 's also something else that I forgot to bring up and that is that they 're trying to find new ways of removing the gases , and they reckoned that in 2 years there 's going to be an electrical method , an electrical filter , and the lab is 99% efficient . |
| 26 | English footballers are not usually renowned for such artistic pursuits but Isabelle is quick to refute any suggestion of intellectual snobbery : ‘ I do n't like the word intelligent , we do n't do things because we 're trying to appear intelligent , ’ she says . |
| 27 | We 're trying to locate each and every one of them . |
| 28 | If that 's what you 're doing in practice , say so , do n't put all these exclusions in the document because that makes me suspicious and makes me think you 're trying to exclude these things . |
| 29 | Ms Botwin disagrees : ‘ Problems are inevitable because you 're trying to bring two very different individuals , and sometimes many more , into some kind of intimacy , which means differing values and all kinds of compromises . |
| 30 | Ironically , women will often cross their legs when they 're trying to look relaxed or elegant or assured . |