Example sentences of "in trying [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And with a mass of highly critical evidence built up against him , chief executive Venables faces a mammoth task in trying to persuade the court he should be allowed to stay on the board despite his sacking on May 14 . |
| 2 | Magistrates found them guilty of criminal damage , but the protesters maintain that their actions in trying to stop a war machine were justified . |
| 3 | ‘ There is not going to be a solution in trying to stop the water . |
| 4 | Staff and residents have been praising her bravery in trying to stop the thief . |
| 5 | Andrew Nicol , for Mr Crook , told Lord Lane , the Lord Chief Justice , sitting with Mr Justice Macpherson and Mr Justice Pill , that his client had been ‘ zealous ’ in trying to preserve the principle of open justice . |
| 6 | There is little point in trying to transmit a professional 's " feel " for something to a parent who is anxious about his or her child 's education but does not know very much about the intricacies of teaching and learning . |
| 7 | There was no point in trying to invent a story , because under these circumstances no made-up story could begin to sound even remotely plausible . |
| 8 | Yet our art persists in trying to render the world as though it were here , now , available , he wrote . |
| 9 | You seem to be sort of trying to encourage a guilt complex by this , this idea put forward by the conservatives , which is not the case , people should not feel guilty in trying to do the benefit that they can to benefit the people of Wiltshire . |
| 10 | We vied with one another in trying to remember the order in which the stations came . |
| 11 | Of those factors relating to the individual ( abilities , experience , goals ) it is goals which are most effective in trying to predict a person 's performance at work . |
| 12 | THE West German Chancellor , Dr Helmut Kohl , yesterday killed any lingering hopes in Downing Street that the Federal Republic would join Britain in trying to slow the momentum of European union . |
| 13 | In trying to answer the question " where does a child 's control of his or her native language come from ? " , two contrasting theoretical explanations have come to dominate discussion . |
| 14 | Lord Mayor of London Sir Brian Jenkins ( below with Ms Leith ) seemed lost for words in trying to describe the sculpture … ‘ that extraordinary thing ’ … which now stands , he said , where former Institute secretary John Hough used to lunch . |
| 15 | Although the relation is the same in both cases , the psychological aspect of compresence has the epistemological priority and it is by considering the " private compresence " of the parts of one total momentary experience that we must begin in trying to explain the possibility of an objective order in physical space-time . |
| 16 | In trying to bridge the gap , theorists commonly resort to purposive forms of explanation , and Poulantzas ' appeal to class strategy is an apt example of this phenomenon . |
| 17 | Many lace patterns are vertically symmetrical so there seems little point in trying to reverse the direction anyway . |
| 18 | I 'd joined in trying to control the thing by now as Gillian found she could n't manage curves on her own . |
| 19 | In a minute we 'll have reaction from people living near the festival site , the local MP , and police involved in trying to control the festival . |
| 20 | The focus switched to the stance taken by Kuwait after Iran and Saudi Arabia , the two largest OPEC exporters , appeared to have put aside differences to work together in trying to reach a settlement . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've simply run out of time in trying to reach an agreement with all concerned ’ said tournament director , Alex Meyer-Wolden , who nevertheless remains hopeful that he will be able to stage a mixed event in 1992 . |
| 22 | The administration lost no time in trying to regain the initiative for the United States . |
| 23 | ‘ If the banks do not pass on the whole of the cut in rates then that is a waste of the Government 's time in trying to stimulate the economy . ’ |
| 24 | Especially in trying to foster a culture of open communication and widely shared ideas , managers and others must spend enormous time communicating and sharing ideas . |
| 25 | In trying to appreciate the variety of relevant perspectives that research workers have adopted , his table comprising 10 ‘ alternative lenses and approaches for strategy research ’ ( economics , cognitive psychology , analytical modelling , organisational behaviour , and so on ) is especially useful . |
| 26 | It was reactive , responding to problems and issues thrust upon it day by day , rather than pro-active in trying to shape the organisation 's future at a strategic level . |
| 27 | The difficulty encountered by the expertise theory in trying to demonstrate the legitimacy of corporate managerial power by showing that there are restraints on the discretion of the managers stems from its attempt to combine a deference to the judgments of business managers with an insistence that corporate managers are subject to fiduciary duties that prevent them from exercising their power for their own purposes or for other non-corporate ends . |
| 28 | Associated with Thomas Povey [ q.v. ] in trying to promote a West India Company , Noell was also active in the Levant and East India Companies . |
| 29 | In trying to keep the wheelbarrow upright as I walked , I moved along a wavy line . |
| 30 | He said there had been difficulties in some committee meetings in trying to achieve a quorum and said payments should be made as an award for members who attended . |