Example sentences of "[be] trying [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think you 're trying to be honest , ’ Henry said . |
| 2 | Talbot said : ‘ If you 're trying to be encouraging , Professor , you 're not doing too well at it . ’ |
| 3 | I think this is one of the chairman because there was so many horrendous forecasts in the summer and autumn about the S S A that when it was announced you know we thought it was goods news and of course it was n't , erm so this is why they 're trying to be prudent and we have kept in our proposals to the erm , has already mentioned that er , thank god , the er democratic growth has been covered this year and so on , erm , plenty of other things that we would like to see erm to comply with the government 's own legislation erm but they where with all . |
| 4 | I said , ‘ Oh for Chris'sakes , shut up I know you 're trying to be nice to me and help me , but please do n't because you 're just giving me a headache . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You can exclude me from the all round , Mother ; and I think it 's a little late for you to say you 're trying to be calm and helpful . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , Henry , ’ said Elinor , now blocking her mouth with the palm of her hand and moaning elaborately , ‘ you 're trying to be funny ! |
| 7 | You 're in a mess , William , and you 're trying to be devious with me . |
| 8 | Yes and they they provided me with boxes of tapes and batteries and eh Walkman and so on and so forth and eh , I 'm trying to be conscientious . |
| 9 | I 'm not being coy ; I 'm trying to be useful . |
| 10 | I 'm trying to be nice . |
| 11 | I 'm trying to be honest about him , and about myself . |
| 12 | And I 'm trying to be serious today . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm trying to be clear . |
| 14 | I 'm trying to be calm and … and helpful for us all round . ’ |
| 15 | He appeared genuinely not to know of Atkins and to be trying to be helpful . |
| 16 | Though his critics maintain they were trying to be constructive and wanted him to stay , Sutton was convinced that the criticism had been organized in advance as a warning that if he did not go , as Pilger was demanding , they would make life hell for him . |
| 17 | Mrs Gray sounded as though she were trying to be fair . |
| 18 | The teachers tried to put life into our lessons and some of the people in my form were trying to be funny as well . |
| 19 | In that way , the French banks are trying to be Japanese , to set up a community of interest between themselves and their clients . |
| 20 | One oil analyst described investor sentiment as a ‘ two-way pull between the Americans who are trying to be optimistic and the British who have been selling to them ’ . |
| 21 | If we humanize the cat to the extent where we start to give it human medication , we may be hurting it when we are trying to be kind . |
| 22 | We are trying to be economical and do n't want to waste postage for those who no longer want to support the scheme , so please get in touch with either Helen ( 632 8214 ) or Theresa ( 638 5882 ) . |
| 23 | But we are trying to be sensible . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ I have got to express my admiration to residential staff who are trying to be positive and ensure the residents do n't suffer . |
| 25 | But more recently , as criticism of ‘ non-planning ’ and piecemeal development has grown , the LDDC , along with the other UDCs , is introducing some social programmes and is trying to be reasonable and cooperative with local communities and ‘ host ’ local authorities . |
| 26 | The Secretary of State for Wales is trying to be helpful and to clarify the matter . |
| 27 | At least the Under-Secretary of State for Energy , the hon. Member for Wells ( Mr. Heathcoat-Amory ) , is trying to be sensible . |
| 28 | The interviewer is trying to be objective and scientific , yet has to establish and maintain ‘ rapport ’ if he is to get a good interview . |
| 29 | Certainly this limpidity is not within Eliot 's reach even when he is trying to be limpid , as in ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ ; , and of course the experience of a simple person enduring a commonplace and unavoidable sorrow — is such as Eliot could never manage , early or late . |
| 30 | As IRFU technical director George Spotswood said : ‘ One has to be aware that , when experimental matches are taking place , everyone is trying to be co-operative . |