Example sentences of "try do be " in BNC.
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| 1 | All he tried to do was relax and enjoy himself , ‘ and everything just fell into place . ’ |
| 2 | What I tried to do was one of those |
| 3 | Yes it is , er I mean , what we tried to do was to write er a comedy on a big scale that was n't a marshmallow , er in fact it er the , the comedy deepens and it gets pretty sour , and I think some of the criticism of the play has been that ‘ is it a comedy , or is it a serious play ’ . |
| 4 | All I can try to do is to outline what theists have been saying when they talk of God , and to try to offset some popular misconceptions of what they mean . |
| 5 | So what we will try to do is to work out a preliminary understanding of the conventions which tell English speakers when to use " the " . |
| 6 | What the report should try to do is to appear to offer an improvement in existing facilities and support to teachers and pupils without calling for a dramatic reorganization of timetables , syllabi or teaching methods . |
| 7 | You 've got , you 've got like water rate , twelve hundred , er , rates , twelve but er , what we could try to do is approach them and see if we can lump it in with this year and that , obviously have to pay higher |
| 8 | As one explained , ‘ Well , what we try to do is basically to stop young people from getting into trouble , or prevent them , in other words we keep them out of court . |
| 9 | I , I , what I try to do is switch off erm , and be myself . |
| 10 | What we try to do is help them to stop being victims . ’ |
| 11 | What we try to do is to make available to people opportunities for study in depth and over a fairly long period of time , on issues and in subjects which are part of University activity . |
| 12 | Yes , I think for a lot of people that 's true and I do n't denigrate that because I think a lot of good work goes on in the Women 's Institute , but what we are particularly interested in is in the professional craftsman , the craftsman who has trained for a number of year to produce extremely good work , and what we try to do is to make that work more available to the public in a number of ways . |
| 13 | What I have tried to do is to highlight the changes of greatest significance to a wider audience ; preparers and auditors of building society accounts will need to refer to the 1992 regulations themselves for a comprehensive assessment of all the changes . |
| 14 | And what we 've tried to do is to look at the national curriculum and try to identify young engineers who could go in and help with design and technology and quite obviously , practice what they preach . |
| 15 | what I 've tried to do is not to and we 've had the money , is to buy one in each set cos we have n't got the money to buy full sets , thirty books is a joke ! |
| 16 | Far from seeking to gain political advantage , all that my Group have tried to do is to continue with a long-held policy on disability . |
| 17 | Action research has come about as a result of this common situation and what it tries to do is to evaluate what is already practice . |
| 18 | What the term ‘ popular music ’ tries to do is to put a finger on that space , that terrain , of contradiction — between ‘ imposed ’ and ‘ authentic ’ , ‘ elite ’ and ‘ common ’ , predominant and subordinate , then and now , theirs and ours , and so on — and to organize it in particular ways |
| 19 | and what repression tries to do is to plug those holes and to keep the repressed repressed . |
| 20 | 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 … |
| 21 | What neuropsychologists are trying to do is to come to some understanding of the way in which damage to the brain impairs abilities such as memory , perception and the use of language . |
| 22 | What Briant is trying to do is … important . |
| 23 | What I am trying to do is identify genetic potential long before the birth of the infant , and therefore long before he has been affected by his environment . |
| 24 | What we are trying to do is to excite , giving black women a voice , in mime . |
| 25 | Gedge told The Legend ! in an NME interview in April 1986 : ‘ When we play live I can sometimes come across as glib or arrogant and find that people take exception to what I say when all I 'm trying to do is talk to the audience . ’ |
| 26 | What you are trying to do is to develop an employee who thinks for himself . |
| 27 | I suggest that what we are really trying to do is to re-establish contact with the earth spirit through visiting sites , to emphasize pilgrimage rather than tourism . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |