Example sentences of "trying [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judges have a hard time trying to thread their way through the labyrinthine case law . |
| 2 | They 're trying to kill their ma-qui . |
| 3 | Banks will respond by trying to restore their desired ratios , following the course referred to earlier . |
| 4 | Search consultants are often called in when an organisation is considering going into a new business sector , as Marks & Spencer did when they went into financial services with their credit card ; as when BP were trying to diversify their business and spot winners by developing new technology ; as financial services institutions do when they wish to launch a new product or enter new markets . |
| 5 | They are examples of people thinking on their feet , trying to rationalize their responses to texts which ‘ hit below the belt ’ . |
| 6 | But misunderstanding the ‘ background ’ plagued them and many other of the experimenters trying to replicate their work . |
| 7 | EEC countries are trying to harmonise their environmental laws in the run-up to 1992 . |
| 8 | This was telling them — trying to bolster their morale — that we were coming to their aid when it was virtually impossible for us to aid them at that time . |
| 9 | Day-care provision also lacked the support of women trade unionists ; Mary MacArthur declared that women had no desire to keep working in factories while trying to nurse their children in crèches . |
| 10 | Because Hengistbury was a port , we were especially interested in identifying which pieces of pottery were local and which imported , and in trying to find their sources . |
| 11 | So far , he had not met any strange animals , terrifying monsters or lost pupils trying to find their way out , and after a few journeys began to feel quite safe as he wandered through the never-ending jungle of passageways . |
| 12 | Simple arithmetic told us that even if we gained the summit we would be stumbling back down in the dark like late cinema-goers trying to find their seats . |
| 13 | Loud cries of surprise from the hall made them run out of the cloakroom , where they were trying to find their coats and berets . |
| 14 | Notably free of movies on white heterosexual themes , the programme includes Danny Thompson 's Public Enemy/Private Friends , a good-natured if thin Brixton-set comedy about three ranting rap-type youths desperately trying to find their lost ticket to a Public Enemy concert ; Cheryl Farthing 's Rosebud , an effective but slightly posey awakening-of-lesbian-desires item with an appealing cast and silly fantasy touches , and Mark Nash 's Between Two Worlds , about a gay florist in psychoanalysis . |
| 15 | So much is made these days of the high-profile young dance companies who are ‘ trying to find their own vocabularies of movement ’ , that it is all too easy to forget those who have been doing just that , very quietly , for a long time . |
| 16 | A couple of hundred years ago two Jesuit missionaries trying to find their way back to the Orinoco stumble across them , get them to build a raft and then pole the two Godmen several hundred miles south while the said Godmen preach them the Gospel and try to get them to wear Levis . |
| 17 | Oh yeah there was lots of foreigners , Americans and foreign people there all with maps out on the tables , trying to find their way round York , which I knew that Stuart knew so it was n't too bad for us , but there 's loads of people , you know thought how do we get to this from here and well it 's certainly a a an experience . |
| 18 | For example , when we say ‘ genes are trying to increase their numbers in future gene pools ’ , what we really mean is ‘ those genes that behave in such a way as to increase their numbers in future gene pools tend to be the genes whose effects we see in the world ’ . |
| 19 | The wealthy , as if trying to secure their dead not only against body-snatchers , but against decay itself , encased them in immense coffins , lined with lead , which six men could scarcely carry , leading Dickens to write of ‘ a blind monster with twelve human legs , shuffling and blundering along . ’ |
| 20 | Auckland District Court heard that the 20-year-old man ‘ was merely trying to attract their attention , so he could start a conversation ’ and that such behaviour was perfectly normal on his archipelago . |
| 21 | They had heard loud banging from the boxcars , as if someone was trying to attract their attention . |
| 22 | Serpell suggests that the parrots are trying to startle their rivals with these varied displays , Switching between a large number of gestures in an unpredictable way may be more intimidating than repeating a few cliched movements over and over again . |
| 23 | There is now definite evidence that villagers are trying to meet their energy needs by substituting one resource for another — agricultural wastes for firewood , for example . |
| 24 | The need to build an adequate base is not only relevant to the pioneer missionary situation , but also to many run-down , inner city locations — only here the problems are even greater because of a history of decline , premises which are impossible to maintain in good order and totally unsuitable for the task in hand , and demands made upon inadequate resources by the needy people in the community and overstretched social services trying to meet their needs . |
| 25 | We 'll come onto this later , later on , but er , it can be shown quite easily , why farm , how farm , why farmers er , behave what you may , from what economic theory would tell you is , is an irrational manner , alright , and it 's simply because they 're trying to minimize their , their risks . |
| 26 | Here , they stopped , the soldiers trying to hide their fear and Corbett sensed that even Sir James Selkirk was frightened to be there . |
| 27 | All they are doing is trying to hide their own ignorance about Jesus and the Bible by being rude to you ! |
| 28 | Further , problems also result from political factors ; there may be disagreements over goals or outside interests , say governments or unions , trying to impose their own objectives . |
| 29 | So many of these er Brian they 're trying to impose their |
| 30 | The rest of the youngsters were having problems trying to contain their laughter . |