Example sentences of "be [prep] try [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is frustrating as a producer , when you have so many ideas that are worth trying to make it better . ’ |
| 2 | Many people think it is hard to assess whether a building is worth preserving and ask what the criteria are for trying to save it . |
| 3 | Clarke had said the same thing and she had tried desperately to comply but it had been like trying to lay hold of darting butterflies . |
| 4 | And from now on , he will be as fervently fanatical in his promulgation of Nazarean thought as he has hitherto been in trying to suppress it . |
| 5 | It may also be a social problem , but sociologists are just as interested in trying to explain ‘ normal ’ behaviour and events as they are in trying to explain the deviant or the abnormal . |
| 6 | However it must be worth trying to do so especially if a senior employee has received independent legal advice before entering the agreement and has been specifically compensated ( as is common in the USA ) for accepting the restraint . |
| 7 | It may well be worth trying to gum up the joint with a mastic sealant or self-adhesive bitumastic flashing rather than going to all the trouble of dismantling the system : use the sealant on the joints even if you do dismantle and reassemble them . |
| 8 | She spent her rare afternoons off visiting the sights of Paris , or lying in the Luxembourg Gardens alone , reading Dostoevsky and Sartre and Camus , and sending out contradictory messages to idle young men who wondered if it would be worth trying to pick her up . |
| 9 | Inspection of the scatterplot suggested that it would be worth trying to fit a line ; the task is to find one which will come as near as possible to the data points . |
| 10 | It might therefore be worth trying to get permission and , if granted , the private road can be followed on a rough surface for five miles . |
| 11 | To put Labour in charge would be like trying to douse a fire with kerosene . |
| 12 | Trying to recreate something as well-known as Layla must be like trying to forge a Picasso . |
| 13 | It all sounded so polite and formal , when what she really wanted was to put her arms around him and have him hold her , kiss her , tell her that he had forgiven her , but that would be like trying to turn the clock back , and there was no way they could do that . |
| 14 | It would be like trying to stop a buffalo , because he was nothing but muscle , weight and bone . |
| 15 | It would be like trying to fill the Pacific Ocean with pebbles thrown into the waves . |
| 16 | As I told a couple of surveyors I met at the ground earlier today , ‘ Building on here would be like trying to wallpaper a Slumberland mattress . ’ |
| 17 | As an exercise in thinking about the unthinkable , the point is a counter to the idea of ‘ tactical ’ nuclear war as a first step in the ladder of escalation but , equally , it might be like trying to avoid any unwanted delays in Russian roulette by starting with a fully loaded gun . |
| 18 | But unless you spend the night before patiently reserving your patch , finding a prime viewing spot can be like trying to catch the tube in the morning rush hour . |
| 19 | Whether one is ‘ sticking close to the knitting ’ ( Peters and Waterman , 1982 ; Redding , 1990 ) by focusing only on what one knows well , in a family business , or whether one is involved in imperatively co-ordinating only a fairly specific range of business-related activity , as in typical Japanese enterprises , leaving the broader picture to the inter-market relations and to state planning , one is certainly involved in a far more restricted and less audacious exercise of planning than one would be in trying to plan the twenty or thirty unrelated businesses of the typical conglomerate . |
| 20 | if it 's worth trying to hit anything I was on top of him |
| 21 | So erm that 's , if you 're , if you 're getting behind on that it 's worth trying to do something about it soonish before you get too far behind to manage to catch up |
| 22 | It is about trying to outfox your opponent . |
| 23 | Training is about trying to put the component parts together — the physical and the mental , working towards an agility in both . |
| 24 | Ray Montgomery , works manager for the east division , said : ‘ This is about trying to change the culture of the organisation , devolving power to people on the ground . |
| 25 | I think that the point , has to be made that when we 've had a transport supplementary grant decision and settlement as poor as this one , then it really is about trying to protect and enhance the people of Lincolnshire and the road network , rather than just for once , party politics , because I ca n't honestly believe that the conservatives would actually , feel that this is a fair , reasonable settlement . |
| 26 | It is worth trying to retain , in the ways McHale suggests , limits to the meaning of the term postmodernism . |
| 27 | Usually , these are sold in bulk to a dealer who can handle large quantities but it is worth trying to do a deal on smaller quantities if you can get in on the ground floor , so to speak . |
| 28 | These results may be due to chance , but the figures suggest that it is worth trying to do semi-automatic correction . |
| 29 | It is worth trying to get a distribution company to take your record on . |
| 30 | This situation is very difficult to handle and it is worth trying to avoid early escalation of treatment with sulphonylureas and then progressing to insulin . |