Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] try [to-vb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is evidence in speaker A's contributions that what she is trying to say is not very well organised before she starts to speak . |
| 2 | Okay Assumptions for Pearson 's are It assumes that there 's an n an approximate linear relationship between , in other words you could cos what it 's trying to do is draw a straight line through it . |
| 3 | I mean if it , wh wh what it is trying to do is , is to is to formalize the fact that land reform was already taking place , and therefore you , you 've got to give the go ahead to that |
| 4 | So the universe he is trying to build is one which offers its inhabitants the possibility of moral action ; one which challenges its inhabitants to transcend it . |
| 5 | And so what he 's trying to do is to as Andrea says erm uncover the truth , get to the , get to what really happened as it were , under the layers of myth and distortion could have been introduced in the Bible story , and as I said if you read the book erm and it is quite fascinating in many ways , it is a bit like a detective story because what Freud does is he tries to get to the truth by analyzing the , the actual texts and the texts contains discrepancies and anybody who 's ever tried to erm edit a book , learns this to their cost actually , but er you find no matter how carefully you change things , there 's usually things you miss , little discrepancies that give away how it was the first time and er Freud 's view is this , this has happened very much to the Bible , it 's been so heavily edited and re-written and later the the various editings show and if you read it very critically , you can begin to see perhaps the underlying pattern er coming through and erm just as you can tell for instance by reading Genesis , that it 's a of two accounts because there are two stories , the first story is Chapter One of Genesis , then in Chapter Three or something there 's a second story repeats it with variations . |
| 6 | Even I mean the the English teacher will know that , that what he 's trying to do is to get a student to write his intentions clearly , to make his points clearly , to have a goal in writing his essay , what is it he 's trying to say . |
| 7 | What he 's trying to do is always to get outside ideological systems , and to present arguments which are simply in terms of what we must all desire . |