Example sentences of "[pers pn] is trying " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have admired her greatly as someone who has an absolutely clear sense of what it is she is trying to achieve . |
| 2 | He or she is trying to locate areas of tension that may be fixed in your body . |
| 3 | He or she is trying to get a very clear picture of what you can do so that they can place you accurately and not send you on too many pointless interviews . |
| 4 | You will realise that words of comfort like this can solve no problems for her ; they can do no more than bathe the wound she has sustained , but she will be badly in need of something to cling on to and because they are spoken by someone who loves her they may be exactly what she wants to hear when she is trying to reassemble herself and face the future . |
| 5 | I think she is trying to console me with foot for not being a very good writer . |
| 6 | She is trying for a Fleet Street career — but vowed to carry on actions against the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail . |
| 7 | You , D , obviously are n't sure you like her very much , but at least you 'll admit that she is trying to raise awareness about important issues , like Mr Dylan , when he was alive . |
| 8 | Catholics are only angry because they feel threatened and so there must be some strength and force in what she is trying to say . |
| 9 | At times , it is almost as if she is trying to emulate the star-studded image of Suzanne Lenglen , which she clearly admires so much . |
| 10 | Because Gilligan assumes that rational subjects are the receptacles of moral values , she underestimates the extent to which the irrational strength of gender continues to influence the values she is trying to recast as simply ‘ human ’ . |
| 11 | She is trying to make explicit what lies hidden at another level , one which the participants , whether schooled or unschooled , are not drawing attention to themselves : the cognitive level . |
| 12 | There is some television and she is trying to learn how to use computers , which seems to cheer her . |
| 13 | Ask yourself ( a ) whether the writer tells you what he or she is trying to do ; ( b ) whether they succeed in doing it ; and ( c ) whether they convince you it was worth doing ! |
| 14 | She is trying to figure out why she is here in the kitchen preparing the Sunday lunch while William is on the Common with the Sunday papers and their child . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She makes love with her eyes closed as though she is trying not to look at him . |
| 17 | So often her only resource is tears , and those tears will more likely arouse panic rather than understanding from the man with whom she is trying to communicate . |
| 18 | She is trying out exciting sports she has spent a lifetime wanting to try . |
| 19 | Dr Enevoldson , who is involved with the Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust , said she is trying to get as many samples from healthy adults to match with leukaemia patients in need of bone marrow . |
| 20 | I have found it useful , when a child is being a thorough nuisance , making exasperating demands , to say to myself : ‘ He/she is not trying to be a ‘ problem ’ ; he/she is trying to solve a problem . |
| 21 | In other words , the drafter must understand what he/she is trying to achieve . |
| 22 | If a work is bigger than a man , he wrote , it can mean either that it is trying to surpass man or that it is not afraid of being looked at . |
| 23 | Their views of appropriate actions for resolving problems of disability related to their own value systems ; the authors of the study conclude that a standard service , which does not take individual values into account , will conflict with the view of some people it is trying to help . |
| 24 | Reefer And The Model has its flaws , but it is trying for something extra . |
| 25 | It is trying to find 30 young unemployed people to join a 16-week project exploring attitudes towards HIV and Aids , and is even offering £10 a week above unemployment benefit , travel expenses , luncheon vouchers , and £50 a week for child care . |
| 26 | The country 's largest carrier is not keen to face new battles at home when it is trying to spread its wings overseas , by buying TWA 's slots at Heathrow . |
| 27 | ‘ It is trying , to keep up with you . ’ |
| 28 | Sometimes the horse stretches out its neck at the horse it is trying to warn off and tosses its head up and down at it in a threatening manner . |
| 29 | More worryingly for Labour , in six key target seats the number disappearing from the electoral rolls is higher than the majority it is trying to overturn . |
| 30 | Even today it is trying to back out of commitments to fit pollution controls . |