Example sentences of "is trying [to-vb] [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well actually this is a matter for the police authorities and despite the fact that the Noble Lord , Lord Callaghan had said this is a centralising measure and er and a number of other Noble Lords have , have said er s similar things , what my Right Honourable Friend is trying to do is to give down to local authorities more power , more responsibility and not to keep that r responsibility to himself . |
| 2 | What the teacher is trying to do is to guide each pupil into developing a set of mental models which have been found by experience or experiment to be useful in understanding technical processes . |
| 3 | What the Government is trying to do is to persuade the estate agents that they should n't give false particulars at all . |
| 4 | So , what the Engineering Council is trying to do is to stimulate interest . |
| 5 | What the futures market is trying to do is to get an unbiased estimate of 1rs 2 the spot interest rate over period 2 . |