Example sentences of "have [be] trying [verb] [adj] " 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 | The Wissenschaftsrat has been trying to sort this one out , but the political factors seem to have prevented progress . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On April 1 this year the college became independent of local education authority control , and since then the college 's management has been trying to introduce new employment contracts , as recommended by the College Employers ' Forum . |
| 8 | For 10 years the centre has been trying to breed African Fish Eagles . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | China is North Korea 's closest ally and has been trying to defuse recent tensions . |
| 11 | Though why she 'd been trying to do that , heaven only knew . |
| 12 | Their bodies were discovered when friends who 'd been trying to contact one of the women became worried and called the police . |
| 13 | I talked to the boy who 'd been trying to help this Frome — trying to get him to vomit it up , and so on . |
| 14 | Then I found out that Jim was making all the original pedals as well , so I decided to get rid of all the stuff I 'd been trying to make all these sounds with and just use the original things . |
| 15 | On the debit side we have dropped one day on the calving interval to 376 days , although not a disaster we had been trying to improve that but our heifers are calving at 28 months instead of two years three months . |
| 16 | Wilf Orton , prosecuting , said Hooker , driving at up to 50 miles per hour in a 30 miles per hour limit , had been trying to over-take four slower moving vehicles when he hit the other car side on . |
| 17 | Despite the fact that they had been trying to kill each other , against the creature they were united . |
| 18 | He had been trying to put inorganic chemistry into an intelligible form for his students at the University of St Petersburg , when ( in common with various contemporaries in various countries ) he realized that if the elements are set out in order of increasing atomic weight , they display periodicity : similar elements recur at regular intervals . |
| 19 | Although a number of influential parties had been trying to have New Year 's flay changed from the old style 13th of the month to 1st , the majority of the natives were loath to change and both days were partially observed . |
| 20 | The Coal Board had been trying to introduce new mechanical processes into coal mining in order to increase productivity , but the innovation provoked severe industrial unrest . |
| 21 | Poor had been trying to remove this panel in the control room when we appeared and was surrounded by contractors trying to get in to start redecoration . |
| 22 | After three weeks of intense work and numerous rejected ideas the creative team of copywriter Liz Whiston and art director Dave Shelton felt they had been trying to solve one of humanity 's great challenges . |
| 23 | While everyone else had been trying to solve this problem by heating … to millions of degrees , we had apparently stumbled on the solution involving low temperatures instead . ’ |
| 24 | I 've been trying to vacuum this through all morning I have n't even done it |
| 25 | Because the kind of earthly and human illustrations that I 've been trying to use this morning are all bound to fall short . |
| 26 | ‘ The thing I 've been trying to do all along is to create a very large-sounding rock record — orchestrated , in a way — combining that with my songwriting style , which is pretty eclectic , I suppose . |
| 27 | Now the enemy 's all deflated and dead , I feel like all my friends and all the artists were like little pygmies and we 've been trying to kill this elephant all these years with little arrows , and finally tonight … |
| 28 | I 've been trying to talk some sense into her . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't you think I 've been trying to believe that ? ’ |
| 30 | For the past three months I 've been trying to buy some SIMMS for my Mesh 386SX . |