Example sentences of "we [am/are] trying [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What we are trying to highlight is the whole effect of Government policy on the health service , ’ Mr Gillen said . |
| 2 | What we are trying to do is to excite , giving black women a voice , in mime . |
| 3 | ‘ What we are trying to do is provide women with the sort of club environment that men are used to and they are not , so that they can relax and talk about business . |
| 4 | ‘ What we are trying to do is to relay six miles of track from Meenglass to Donegal … the Barnsmoor Gap , plus renovate the old coaches still in existence , some of which are now holiday homes and hen houses ! ’ |
| 5 | And what we are trying to do is attract other business into that floor space . |
| 6 | ‘ The cost is killing us , and what we are trying to do is make a proportion of business profitable once more . |
| 7 | The nearest McIntosh comes to direct criticism is when he says : ‘ What we are trying to do is to provide clients with the services that they want and I think that will be the difference . |
| 8 | What we are trying to do is to provide good people who have an enthusiasm for this kind of catering with a fast route towards management responsibility , and that is a route which , for those who want it , can lead right up into store management and beyond . |
| 9 | No one owns this form what we are trying to do is make sure it 's ready so therefore it has an owner . |
| 10 | It well I say one it was one of the aspects that was that tha that cropped up in our discussion about the criteria on Friday and as far as we 're concerned , what we are trying to do is not er to exclude anything from the discussion in terms of er trying to locate or find a suitable location . |
| 11 | What we are trying to do is serve them direct and there is no problem as far as transport is concerned . ’ |
| 12 | What we are trying to do is ensure that our training records meet the requirements of B S 5750 . |
| 13 | What we are trying to say is that we do n't have to look to our mothers for everything . |
| 14 | It is important to ensure , therefore , that when we evaluate support teaching , the full complexity of what we are trying to achieve is properly appreciated , and is reflected both in the criteria we adopt and the methods we use to apply them . |
| 15 | What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it . |
| 16 | What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it . |
| 17 | Like she says I think the position is exes effectively what we 're trying to reinforce is that we do n't want any heros |
| 18 | What we 're trying to do is to write cricket bats , so that when we throw up an idea and give it a little knock , it might … travel … |
| 19 | And if you notice what we 're trying to do is with our er illustration here er is to reflect the the gentility if you like of the Yorkshire hills and Yorkshire dales and we have a logo of our own which appears in the corner of the screen . |
| 20 | This , we 're all agreed that it 's a marketing exercise and what we 're trying to do is to get across to our clients , what we have to offer to them . |
| 21 | What we 're trying to do is ref replace those three |
| 22 | ‘ What we 're trying to do is have a piece of research that is so novel and is so placeable within industry that they ca n't really say no . |
| 23 | Er our distribution system has got great press recently and it 's regarded as one of the three best distribution systems in the U K. One of the things we 're trying to do is to pay less for our books , it 's very easy to pay very very fancy prices for , for er mid-range authors and for them not to earn out , so we 're looking for much cheaper books . |
| 24 | Well presumably with , what we 're trying to do is create some sort of alternative family units , we do n't want , although , er , laudable what the youth service does , is , we would n't want , if they do n't want to plugged , clubbable together , if , if , if , if the , the unit could provide that , or provide alternatives to pick up the , the correlation between that and , and ordinary normal family unit , I would hope that that would have been the best way forward , erm , er , because often some youngsters are in this situation because they , they have n't found the , that sort of provision has been helpful for them . |
| 25 | What we 're trying to do is get it , reasonably up to date , and these are of course then , photographs for the album as well . |
| 26 | So what we 're trying to do is approach this in a professional way , and we 're drawing on the national and the international experience and working together with Social Services to try and determine a sensible policy . |
| 27 | do n't let's , do n't let's try and assume the , all we 're , all we 're trying to do is to gather together the bit that we can put into the pot , and to present it in a logical fashion , to say , if this , then we belief that , and if that , then we believe the other , |
| 28 | Okay , let's swap over , what I want you to remember is it 's not a conversation it 's not the try not to get into a conversation what we 're trying to do is we 're trying to stick to one person 's trying to stick to their point the other person 's trying to take them off it , okay ? |
| 29 | And I think what we 're trying to do is to see that we 're being treated fairly just as we might listen to that person 's argument as well . |
| 30 | Erm , the point perhaps of , of , of the thing is , it 's called the Team Focus , and hopefully for that very reason what we 're trying to do is to look at the way in which you can improve your performance together if you like , erm , and it would be very interesting to see what Jack and Linda can contribute to this in that , people who 've worked together for sort of six or seven years , erm , ought to be able to show us something . |