Example sentences of "[art] [noun] have be trying " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kindred spirits reaffirmed loyalties which the authorities had been trying to suppress . |
| 2 | The Wissenschaftsrat has been trying to sort this one out , but the political factors seem to have prevented progress . |
| 3 | Whoever was driving the car had been trying to kill her , it was as simple as that . |
| 4 | Since she was rejected last year , the council has been trying to find an alternative service for the island . |
| 5 | The council has been trying to sell the half-timbered historic mansion in Royden Park for more than two years and has put a £1m price tag on it . |
| 6 | The council has been trying to sell the halftimbered historic mansion in Royden Park for more than two years and has put a £1m price tag on it . |
| 7 | As the storm raged about them , the bier unaccountably broke and the corpse tumbled into a meadow the bailiff had been trying to extort . |
| 8 | It is innocent ; cleared of all the expressions that the child has been trying out during the day . |
| 9 | Rather than making the observations that were originally planned , the telescope has been trying out various options to see what is possible , and at the same time producing pictures and results to reassure the public that all is not lost . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sorry miss , but the station has been trying to get hold of you for several days , ’ he interrupted . |
| 11 | There are numerous accounts from researchers or trainers who start their contact with dolphins thinking they will teach a dolphin how to communicate with humans , and end up wondering it in Fact the dolphin has been trying to teach us a thing or two about communicating with them . |
| 12 | Since their overwhelming vote for independence in a 1991 referendum , the Ukrainians have been trying to choose the West . |
| 13 | Sadly , this representation of our salvation has been the source of the rift between two historic Communions as both have misheard or misunderstood what the other has been trying to say . |
| 14 | ‘ You can be sure that the Greeks have been trying to organise something like this since ‘ The Age of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent ’ was such a success in America ’ , he added , referring to a travelling exhibition of objects from Turkish collections , organised by the National Gallery in 1987 . |
| 15 | The manager had been trying to set himself up in the Business when he knew full well that Clive had the franchise . |
| 16 | The Klan has been trying to recruit a new type of kid : young , middle-class and white . |
| 17 | ‘ There were claw marks up the bank side where the badgers had been trying to get out . ’ |
| 18 | E. The Government has been trying to help people in these country areas , particularly in the north . |
| 19 | Noise from vehicles is something the Government has been trying to tackle for more than 20 years . |
| 20 | In Britain , the government has been trying to encourage commercial recyclers such as waste-paper merchants to join forces with the packaging industry to give more packaging a second life . |
| 21 | Ever since 1979 the Government has been trying to widen and deepen share ownership , but apart from privatisations , which have resulted in millions of people owning a few hundred shares in one or two companies , it can not be said to have had much success . |
| 22 | She was still weak from her miscarriage and the journey had been trying . |
| 23 | For 10 years the centre has been trying to breed African Fish Eagles . |
| 24 | The US has been trying for a decade to clinch the deal , not least because it would give its nuclear forces control of what is seen as the strategically vital Pacific zone and a new set of options if its Philippine naval and air bases are threatened . |
| 25 | Sullivan then surrendered the embassy and opened the steel doors to the second floor of the chancery , which the attackers had been trying to batter down . |
| 26 | The newspapers had been trying him ever since his arrest . |
| 27 | Dr Simon Newell , in charge of the neonatal unit , said the couple had been trying for a baby for seven years and Mrs Vince had been undergoing fertility treatment for five years . |
| 28 | After all , the press have been trying to marry me off for years . ’ |
| 29 | Its quite possible this was taken out of context by teletext — they often do — especially in this case where the press have been trying to stir up a rift for well over a year . |
| 30 | There then appeared a chink of light when we were advised by Mr F. Musgrave of Saintfield that he wished to sell the site of the former Ballynahinch Junction Station , a site which the Trust had been trying to secure for the past 20 years . |