Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] a new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you are trying to find a new angle of vision , it is particularly important that you avoid familiar or worn-out ways of writing . |
| 2 | In the garden you will see them nosing around trying to find a new place to dig a hole . |
| 3 | Ghatak saw himself as groping , experimenting with each film , trying to find a new form to say something new , now picturesque , now documentary , now epic , now experimental , now melodrama . |
| 4 | An Australian soap star is trying to launch a new career over here . |
| 5 | They have been trying to design a new force structure that would both live within the expected budget cuts and be capable of responding effectively to all imaginable crises . |
| 6 | Together , both companies are trying to set a new standard for the more complex computing world of the 1990s : a jointly developed operating system called OS/2 . |
| 7 | It 's too big to take out with you but the drawings and descriptions of over 300 common British birds are great for teaching beginners what to look out for when trying to identify a new bird . |
| 8 | Well you do get aeriated though when you 're trying to do a new job do n't you ? |
| 9 | While even this degree of relief Chairman in the town centre would be welcome , the problem comes in trying to justify a new bypass in terms of its cost effectiveness . |
| 10 | I was trying to start a new life on a building site ! |
| 11 | ‘ Establishing a level of confidence is quite important when you are trying to start a new business ’ — especially in a sector like aerospace . |
| 12 | Or they could be used to design new strategies ; useful , for example , to politicians trying to get a policy on the agenda , or a sales manager trying to market a new product . |
| 13 | When the computer is trying to save a new file to a disc , it looks for the first available fragment of space , writes as much of the new file as will fit , then looks for another available fragment of space , writes a bit more , and so on until all the file is written somewhere on the disc . |
| 14 | Clark and Fraser were trying to control a new set of television nabobs with priorities quite unlike those of the forty-year-old BBC , whose task was to ‘ inform , educate and entertain ’ , in that order . |
| 15 | ‘ We 're trying to develop a new kind of show , so obviously there are problems . |
| 16 | My girlfriend and I are trying to compile a new guidebook for the Clwyd area and would appreciate details of any new route information your readers might have . |
| 17 | As erm as a doctor , Bill , I have ingrained on my heart Aneurin Bevan 's words when the National Health Service was introduced in this country by the post-war Labour government , against the wishes of my colleagues , and he commented that he would erm cross our palms with silver , and he did that very successfully , with the result that he stifled a lot of opposition amongst some very powerful people , and erm of course when you 're trying to introduce a new scheme such as this and you 're terribly keen that erm it should take off and be successful , you do , of course , cross palms with silver . |
| 18 | The Klan has been trying to recruit a new type of kid : young , middle-class and white . |