Example sentences of "it be [prep] try [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's about trying to define requirements to the , to the best erm level and best degree . |
| 2 | It 's about trying to understand what is going on , almost through the eyes of the participants themselves . |
| 3 | Abbott offers the disarming creative theory : ‘ It 's about trying to find something to persuade someone . ’ |
| 4 | So erm that 's , if you 're , if you 're getting behind on that it 's worth trying to do something about it soonish before you get too far behind to manage to catch up |
| 5 | if it 's worth trying to hit anything I was on top of him |
| 6 | It 's like trying to breathe through a thick chador . ’ |
| 7 | It 's like trying to turn beef steak rawk into a New Age lentilburger , not by changing the ingredients but simply enveloping it all in a laser-fried wholemeal bun and hoping that nobody will notice the difference . |
| 8 | It 's like trying to peel an onion . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's like trying to break into the Kremlin strongbox . ’ |
| 10 | He was more elated than when he had been shooting as an international for Great Britain : ‘ It 's like trying to get eight draws on the football pools — anybody can win . |
| 11 | The momentum is there and it 's like trying to change the course of a battleship . |
| 12 | It is worth trying to retain , in the ways McHale suggests , limits to the meaning of the term postmodernism . |
| 13 | Usually , these are sold in bulk to a dealer who can handle large quantities but it is worth trying to do a deal on smaller quantities if you can get in on the ground floor , so to speak . |
| 14 | These results may be due to chance , but the figures suggest that it is worth trying to do semi-automatic correction . |
| 15 | It is worth trying to get a distribution company to take your record on . |
| 16 | If the water is very low when you are constructing your map it is worth trying to imagine what the water will be like during a winter flood . |
| 17 | If you are being selected for redundancy in preference to one or more of your colleagues , it is worth trying to find out why . |
| 18 | Obviously it is worth trying to pin-point the cause of failure but that is quite independent of the amount of investment that has been made . |
| 19 | This situation is very difficult to handle and it is worth trying to avoid early escalation of treatment with sulphonylureas and then progressing to insulin . |
| 20 | It is about trying to outfox your opponent . |
| 21 | It is like trying to ladle out the sea with a sieve . ) |
| 22 | It is like trying to predict the outcome of a game of chess before anyone has made a move . |
| 23 | For thirty minutes it is like trying to push a marshmallow into a coinbox . |
| 24 | It is like trying to push on a piece of string : it can not be done . |
| 25 | It is like trying to get a firm grip on a plateful of pudding . |
| 26 | Again , the control layout would bother me because the volume pot for the bridge pickup is the middle of the three , but I think I could get used to it — although at present it is like trying to get used to driving a new car where they 've put the gearstick in the middle of the passenger seat . |
| 27 | Signs like these were enough to convince educated contemporaries that it was worth trying to maintain the pressure on the authorities which they had already begun to generate . |
| 28 | I 'd like to put forward the argument that it was by trying to accomodate Cuntona , Wallace and Chappie together at the start of last season that made us a soft touch away from home . |
| 29 | It was in trying to forge the necessary alliances and to equip the essential forces that Edward then came into conflict with the laity and the clergy at home . |
| 30 | By this time , we got the impression that the gulf between Walworth Road and Streatham was so great , it was like trying to control unruly hill tribes beyond Hadrian 's Wall . |