Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Booz , Allen & Hamilton was forced to close down its executive search division in 1980 , when serious problems surfaced as a result of trying to carry on a recruiting business whilst at the same time having 3000 management consultancy clients on their books , who were more or less off-limits from the point of view of providing candidates for headhunting . |
| 2 | It begins to sound from this description that it 's I twelve which is a bit of a dinosaur , a a dodo , that this is a county trying to carry on a thing which has probably passed its sell by date , that er it is n't fair to say that I five is primarily for industry , erm that is n't what the law says it is . |
| 3 | I think it enables the young people that have been coming to those meetings to find out too the problems that Councillors and Local Authorities have in actually trying to carry out the sort of things they want . |
| 4 | In defining these limits , Christians are trying to carry out the pattern laid down by God , who created our sexuality . |
| 5 | ANALYSTS and advisers were yesterday lining up the next series of state asset sales and trying to see how the Government could increase the projected £19 billion over the next three years to reduce borrowing and fund tax cuts . |
| 6 | They believe the council , aware of its weak case in favour of the barrage , is trying to wear down the opposition by attrition . |
| 7 | Her mother feared the trauma of being snatched from her could bring on an attack , and ran around frantically trying to find both the inhaler and the child 's tablets . |
| 8 | Conoco was trying to find out the cause of the leak , before it could decide how to stop it . |
| 9 | The fawn was badly injured trying to jump over a wire fence , and had to be operated on to save her life . |
| 10 | This time , gently stretch upwards for 10 counts , trying to pull up a bit further with each count . |
| 11 | IDG World Expo is trying to pull together a Unix Fair ‘ 93/Tokyo for December 8 to 10 at the Pacifico Yokohama and has been touting for prospects for the show at UniForum . |
| 12 | IDG World Expo is trying to pull together a Unix Fair ‘ 93/Tokyo for December 8–10 at the Pacifico Yokohama : It 's got a hospitality suite set up at the San Francisco Marriott this week trolling for prospects . |
| 13 | 88open is trying to pull together a meeting of consortia chiefs this month to mull over the kinds of business , customer and anti-trust issues they all share . |
| 14 | USL is apparently unwilling to budge on standard pricing , knowing full well that SCO is trying to pull together an agreement for SVR4 by the time of its showpiece SCO Forum in Santa Cruz this week . |
| 15 | He is now trying to pull down the house about the ears of Winchester 's Tories . |
| 16 | Down in division 3 , Hereford United are trying to shake off a run of 3 league defeats in a row . |
| 17 | I squirm like I 'm trying to shake off a mosquito . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm also trying to shake off a cold which I picked up in Belgium . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I am not pregnant , nor do I suffer from anorexia , ’ she added frostily , ‘ I 'm trying to shake off an illness I 've had for a few months , that 's all . ’ |
| 20 | A statute of 1388 attempted to reinforce the Statute of Labourers , the measure enacted to control wages after the Black Death of 1348–49 , but attempts in 1389 to put it into practice showed that men were trying to shake off the stigma of villein tenure , even at the cost of taking a cash wage worth less in real terms than the combination of cash and food which they had been paid previously , insisting on working by the day rather than contracting for a yearly wage , and exploiting the possibility of alternative employment ( 65 , pp.92–5 ) . |
| 21 | It should be a condition , for anyone thinking about development to resist trying to infer how a structure develops by only looking at the final result . |
| 22 | And that 's the problem facing conservationists who are trying to discover where the dormice are . |
| 23 | Trying to establish why a component snapped |
| 24 | My tired brain is trying to work out a response which it 's failing to do at the moment . |
| 25 | According to press reports , the experts are trying to work out a compromise solution under which the Danube 's water would be divided between the old river bed and the new canal . |
| 26 | Anybody who 's still trying to work out the story about the wreath and the river , there was n't any point to it . |
| 27 | It says : ‘ I am sure that there must be a right-wing think-tank somewhere , trying to work out the possibility of privatising air so that only those who can afford to pay can breathe . ’ |
| 28 | He went on staring at the television screen , not listening to the next item , but trying to work out the puzzle . |
| 29 | His mind was still trying to work out the puzzle she had set him . |
| 30 | ‘ I du n no why yer put up wi' it , ’ he sternly admonished the Captain , who was trying to work out the batting order on the back of his chequebook . |