Example sentences of "be trying [to-vb] [is] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well presumably with , what we 're trying to do is create some sort of alternative family units , we do n't want , although , er , laudable what the youth service does , is , we would n't want , if they do n't want to plugged , clubbable together , if , if , if , if the , the unit could provide that , or provide alternatives to pick up the , the correlation between that and , and ordinary normal family unit , I would hope that that would have been the best way forward , erm , er , because often some youngsters are in this situation because they , they have n't found the , that sort of provision has been helpful for them . |
| 2 | What they 're ac what they 're trying to do is coordinate enough local parties with the same poster that they can make a block booking I would have thought . |
| 3 | It 's grown up like topsy , and what we 're trying to do is to equalize that . |
| 4 | So what we 're trying to do is approach this in a professional way , and we 're drawing on the national and the international experience and working together with Social Services to try and determine a sensible policy . |
| 5 | Er our distribution system has got great press recently and it 's regarded as one of the three best distribution systems in the U K. One of the things we 're trying to do is to pay less for our books , it 's very easy to pay very very fancy prices for , for er mid-range authors and for them not to earn out , so we 're looking for much cheaper books . |
| 6 | What I am trying to do is identify genetic potential long before the birth of the infant , and therefore long before he has been affected by his environment . |
| 7 | And before you , you have that update what I am trying to do is to list all of the recommendations we obtained in respect of the report and they are actually three - one , to three - twenty and then we put paragraph two on each of those recommendations to bring you up to date on what the service is doing . |
| 8 | No one owns this form what we are trying to do is make sure it 's ready so therefore it has an owner . |
| 9 | And what we are trying to do is attract other business into that floor space . |
| 10 | What we are trying to do is to provide good people who have an enthusiasm for this kind of catering with a fast route towards management responsibility , and that is a route which , for those who want it , can lead right up into store management and beyond . |
| 11 | ‘ What we are trying to do is to relay six miles of track from Meenglass to Donegal … the Barnsmoor Gap , plus renovate the old coaches still in existence , some of which are now holiday homes and hen houses ! ’ |
| 12 | What the teacher is trying to do is to guide each pupil into developing a set of mental models which have been found by experience or experiment to be useful in understanding technical processes . |