Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [be] trying " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their idea of reality remains trapped in the cultural viewpoint which their theory of literature was trying to replace , and the difficulties which this led to can be most clearly seen in their theory of literary history : despite their innovatory definition of literary history as a discontinuous series , they were unable to explain how literary history related to other historical series . |
| 2 | Now that Hunt 's committee has ducked all the technical issues and government ministers can not agree on a policy , officials inside the Department of Industry are trying to decide how tightly the government should control the type of cable system laid , what technology to recommend and who should be allowed to do what . |
| 3 | The Department of Industry is trying to tempt more companies to enter this area . |
| 4 | really odd dream once yeah I dreamt , I dreamt this tube of , tube of toothpaste was trying to get me and every time it hit me I lost |
| 5 | A group at the University of Hokkaido is trying to isolate this chemical , which it calls glycinoeclopin A. So far the group has managed to obtain a tiny portion — 0.5 milligrams — of the substance and now it is trying to discover the chemical structure of the material . |
| 6 | It is this region beyond the senses which the mystics and the artists with their new schools of art are trying to describe or depict and which the scientists are trying to explain and understand . |
| 7 | He added : " Creating political parties hastily will inevitably result in the problems of regionalism or tribalism at a time when the head of state is trying to unite families and households which were torn apart by the situation created in the past . " |
| 8 | 2 ) the Campaign for freedom of Information is trying to promote a bill which would give patients the right to see their own medical records . |
| 9 | In mid-1968 , a time of financial difficulty , while urgent discussions were taking place at the highest level on ways to save the party newspapers , the Ministry of Information was trying to find ways of cutting back expenditure on broadcasting and information services . |