Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the relief workers , trying to cope is an overwhelming ordeal . |
| 2 | And what they will be trying to catch is just 70 very big carp dominated by a monster 36lb specimen . |
| 3 | all this , all this , it is , it is for , cos what they 're trying , what they 're trying to work is the fact that er you 're supposed to have twenty one hours ' class contact |
| 4 | ‘ What we are trying to highlight is the whole effect of Government policy on the health service , ’ Mr Gillen said . |
| 5 | What I 'm trying to suggest is a criteria based policy at the strategic scale . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | What Briant is trying to do is … important . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | What we are trying to do is to excite , giving black women a voice , in mime . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | What you are trying to do is to develop an employee who thinks for himself . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Observers reflect that what Apple is trying to do is quite difficult . |
| 18 | What I 'm trying to do is chair a meeting and to prevent what happening what 's just happened when people start jumping up and shouting I do n't think that 's productive ways to chair any meeting or allow that to happen . |
| 19 | What I 'm trying to do is rub against the grain of Thatcherism , not with it . ’ |
| 20 | What the historian is trying to do is not merely to record the events and happenings of war , but to study them against the background of the world in which the long Anglo-French conflict was fought . |
| 21 | What we have been trying to do is to find " subsidy-free " prices which will cover the costs of the enterprise . |
| 22 | So , what the Engineering Council is trying to do is to stimulate interest . |
| 23 | … What we 're now trying to do is say the river will stand a temperature of 30C — if it 'll stand it , do n't let's bugger about . |
| 24 | What you 're trying to do is indicate to them how best you might be able to work your way through those controversies to be able to make some statement of policy or some recommendation and the like … . |
| 25 | You end up er collapsed , taking deep breaths , and what that is trying to do is that the deep breaths are circulating oxygen into the body , the oxygen is then able to break down the lactic acid into other substances which are less harmful . |
| 26 | What we are now trying to do is to explain that variation in cost . |
| 27 | And if you notice what we 're trying to do is with our er illustration here er is to reflect the the gentility if you like of the Yorkshire hills and Yorkshire dales and we have a logo of our own which appears in the corner of the screen . |
| 28 | This , we 're all agreed that it 's a marketing exercise and what we 're trying to do is to get across to our clients , what we have to offer to them . |
| 29 | All he has been trying to do is to trying to ensure that there 's been even-handed play here on all the stadium sites and it 's disgraceful that his name has been dragged into this ! |
| 30 | ‘ What I 'm trying to do is not to revive that , but to use the conventions in a modern context ; flexible , fluid symbols , which can be read in numerous ways . ’ |