Example sentences of "have been trying [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they were perfectly competent people and good at their jobs , they were never going to become part of the new culture which we have been trying to design for the Storehouse group . |
| 2 | However , a few hundred men aged between 18 and 60 who have been trying to leave on grounds of illness were told they must obtain a certificate from an army doctor . |
| 3 | We have been trying to din into the heads of the electricity boards an inkling that different people are susceptible to different levels of radiation exposure and that there is no safe level . |
| 4 | We have been trying to lay on chances for each other . |
| 5 | It is for this reason that most doctors will not generally accept that couples have a fertility problem until they have been trying to conceive for at the very least a year . |
| 6 | I deciphered a code that confirmed things scientists have been trying to get at for years ; that magick is physics , basically . |
| 7 | We have been trying to focus in this study on those people within the enterprise who are in a position to effect strategic change ( or to maintain the status quo in the face of destabilising influences ) . |
| 8 | But it is also a lesson that Yucatan 's businessmen and its state government have been trying to impress on investors from the United States — with controversial results . |
| 9 | I will not yield to the temptation to reflect on the problems that face this university and the Centre for Continuing Education as part of it , but I think that it 's fair to say that in the future we will be hard put to maintain the volume and variety of the contribution we have been trying to make to adult education in the community . |
| 10 | This has a shuffling joss-sticky booga-booga spook beat and a strange haircut ; this is the record that Pop Will Eat Itself have been trying to make for the past 24 months , the grinning idiot love-child of Mr Desmond Drugmusic and Mrs Winnie Indiewhine brought up in a radical lesbian commune in Vancouver , Canada and fed on a diet of black pudding and Ecstasy . |
| 11 | It may just be the book you have been trying to find for years ! |