Example sentences of "was trying to create " 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 | It is almost as if Thomas was trying to create , in fiction , an alternative pattern his life might have followed . |
| 3 | He recognised that the criticism to which he was replying had its root in fundamental differences between the culture of management in the pre-nationalisation industry and what he was trying to create . |
| 4 | Moreover , the approach was trying to create a science of international relations . |
| 5 | The question of her hair , however , brought about a confrontation , Madame arguing that Ellie 's long hair , even caught up as it was in a chignon , was completely out of fashion , and quite ruined the look Madame was trying to create . |
| 6 | Using the wrong face can destroy the effect that a document was trying to create just as the wrong colour can ruin a decoration scheme |
| 7 | Soviet accusations followed that Washington was trying to create the basis for a military alliance through strengthening mutual dependence between its regional partners in an arrangement over which it presided . |
| 8 | Another scholar claims that since the government was trying to create a class of peasant smallholders , it had to safeguard the peasant 's person , his property and his entrepreneurial activity ; " Securing these conditions without an apparatus of justice was impossible " . |