Example sentences of "[verb] be try " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was looking at the ground , he seemed to be concentrating ; he might 've been trying to remember something . |
| 2 | who was sitting in the audience who is a nurse and er would 've known and she would 've been trying to get in and say this is not true . |
| 3 | In a speech that blended music-hall style with soap-box rhetoric , the veteran left wing MP for Bolsover , said : ‘ For too long the Labour Party has been trying to follow in the wake of Mrs Thatcher 's agenda . |
| 4 | The Giuliani campaign — advised by Roger Ailes , the media guru who turned the Bush campaign around — has been trying to persuade Jewish voters that Mr Dinkins is a clone of Jesse Jackson and no friend of Israel . |
| 5 | Both sides have agreed in principle to a referendum on the future of the territory , and the United Nations has been trying to achieve agreement on its details but , despite concessions by Polisario , little progress has been made . |
| 6 | LEP 's Californian rival , the Stanford Linear Collider , has been trying , and failing , to get this result for more than two years . |
| 7 | Karen Gorbutt , 30 , from South London , has been trying for years to get her partner , Matthew Allen , 30 , to be considerate around the house . |
| 8 | The Hong Kong Government has been trying to persuade Britain to make the package as wide as possible . |
| 9 | The US has been trying for a decade to clinch the deal , not least because it would give its nuclear forces control of what is seen as the strategically vital Pacific zone and a new set of options if its Philippine naval and air bases are threatened . |
| 10 | The divisions are certainly latent , but the very manner in which , especially since President Muawad 's assassination , Syria has been trying to enforce the peace plan — with such haste , threats and bluster — tends to blunt rather than sharpen them . |
| 11 | FOR SEVERAL years , my husband has been trying to join the Labour Party . |
| 12 | The crowds at Constitution Dock cheered the owner who has been trying for 20 years to score a major success in this race . |
| 13 | There are numerous accounts from researchers or trainers who start their contact with dolphins thinking they will teach a dolphin how to communicate with humans , and end up wondering it in Fact the dolphin has been trying to teach us a thing or two about communicating with them . |
| 14 | Each has been trying to outbid the rest in an attempt to gain market share and so exploit economies of scale . |
| 15 | Rather than making the observations that were originally planned , the telescope has been trying out various options to see what is possible , and at the same time producing pictures and results to reassure the public that all is not lost . |
| 16 | Mr Deukmejian , who was elected governor in 1982 , has been trying for a mighty long time to get the death penalty enforced in California . |
| 17 | A committee of three ministers — Roger Freeman ( transport ) , Francis Maude ( Treasury ) and John Redwood ( trade and industry ) — has been working on the railway sell-off ; and the group drafting the Tory election manifesto has been trying to distil the trio 's ideas into an appetising few paragraphs . |
| 18 | Mr Kemp has been trying for several years to prod the White House into launching a serious anti-poverty programme . |
| 19 | Sadly , this representation of our salvation has been the source of the rift between two historic Communions as both have misheard or misunderstood what the other has been trying to say . |
| 20 | The Klan has been trying to recruit a new type of kid : young , middle-class and white . |
| 21 | Intel has been trying to get itself known better recently with television and magazine advertising to offset the rising power of several competitors . |
| 22 | SIR — The fact that Steve Redfern has been trying for six years to resume playing rugby union after playing rugby league ( Daily Telegraph , April 2 ) shows that union is a more enjoyable game . |
| 23 | E. The Government has been trying to help people in these country areas , particularly in the north . |
| 24 | The Wissenschaftsrat has been trying to sort this one out , but the political factors seem to have prevented progress . |
| 25 | One council , Lancashire , has been trying to enlist the Ministry of Agriculture 's help in controlling their hogweed . |
| 26 | The major combatants will be the Council of Europe and the European Economic Community , The EEC 's commissioner for industry , Etienne Davignon , has been trying to sort out the EEC 's scientific programmes . |
| 27 | And he says that the European Commission , which has been trying to break down trade barriers in pharmaceuticals since 1975 backs him . |
| 28 | Busch has been trying to make totally synthetic model oxygen carriers for a decade . |
| 29 | That is one of the conclusions of a report by a market research company which has been trying to discover why video conferencing is not more popular . |
| 30 | A Tory friend of mine who has been trying to write nice things about the Conservative campaign has been tearing his hair out in desperation , not just because they are doing so badly — but because they deserve to . |