Example sentences of "have tried [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One fraction of the team has tried to sustain a developmental role-going about establishing play schemes and mobilising parent support groups . |
| 2 | Suppose it has tried to promote a special line of soft toys by selling them next to infants ' clothes . |
| 3 | Nonetheless , this latter modification has been rejected ( Dearden and Rosenblood , 1980 ) and Dearden ( 1980 ) has tried to develop the multiple regression model by making the dependent variable more representative , and the independent variables more comprehensive . |
| 4 | The Shah himself has tried to have the British government curb the BBC . |
| 5 | And this year the association has tried to make a clean break from the past . |
| 6 | And this year the association has tried to make a clean break from the past . |
| 7 | It has tried to make the excellent support the Campaign offers more accessible to people all over Wales who are keen to improve their local environment . |
| 8 | Since it was restructured five years ago ( see Nature 332 , 197 ; 1988 ) , the CSIR has tried to obtain a larger proportion of its income from both the private and public sectors for consulting . |
| 9 | He 'd tried to sell the Holy Relic , St Vladimir 's Cross . |
| 10 | I think he 'd tried to make a certain birdie but he 'd really come unstuck . |
| 11 | He might as well have tried to hit a flitting moonshadow . |
| 12 | Other boxers would have tried to cause the maximum damage , but Eubank calmly waited for the referee to do his job properly and stop the fight . |
| 13 | A defence of acting in her best medical interests fails : he could have tried to find a female gynaecologist , and , indeed , his female house officer had already examined the patient ; a pelvic mass could have been shown by ultrasonography ; if it was necessary to exclude pelvic disease a laparoscopy could have been performed before the appendicectomy ; it is doubtful whether the examination under anaesthesia served any purpose as tenderness could not be elicited ; and , finally , he could have asked the patient first whether an examination under anaesthesia was an acceptable compromise . |
| 14 | Police were interviewing a man yesterday alleged to have tried to steal a golden pheasant from a cage at a house at Chapelgarth , Great Broughton . |
| 15 | We 've tried to find the right combination of fluid proteins and … ’ |
| 16 | where we 've tried , we 've tried to keep a reasonable pension for them . |
| 17 | He says : ‘ We 've tried to avoid the gorier aspects of hospital life , and focused instead on the doctor/patient relationship . ’ |
| 18 | Then , drinking champagne with journalists , he flew home to a Teheran in which his supporters had tried to re-erect the toppled statues of his father . |
| 19 | The raid , on a property in Knotto Bottom Way , failed but not before they had tried to force a sliding window at the front of the home . |
| 20 | Harris had wanted to get away from all that , and had tried to join the British Parachute Regiment , but they had turned him down . |
| 21 | He was there to explain to the court that he and the other officers had tried to control the Nazi leaders ' demands for gross reprisals for the deaths of the Germans in the Via Rassella . |
| 22 | A statement issued by the party noted that Saadeh had tried to persuade the Syrian government to support a postponement . |
| 23 | With five of his supporters he had tried to hold a street-corner meeting , heckled by a group of twenty onlookers , some of whom began to sing the ‘ Internationale ’ . |
| 24 | In Berlin 's Potsdamer Platz , Liebknecht had tried to hold an anti-war rally , leading to Germany 's first war-time strikes . |
| 25 | Nigger was on leave from the navy and had been impressed as he watched Yanto hit a drunken sailor who had tried to grope a young girl . |
| 26 | Since the start of the Troubles , a number of loyalist trade unionists had tried to create a province-wide organization of unionist workers and by late 1973 the plans of men such as Billy Kelly , a power workers ' shop steward , Billy Hull , ex-Northern Ireland Labour Party , and Hugh Petrie , a precision engineer from Shorts , were sufficiently advanced for them to propose to the loyalist politicians that the province could be brought to a halt by a strike . |
| 27 | According to his letter to Puchberg , he had tried to organize a further series of subscription concerts to improve his finances , but when the list came back only the faithful Baron van Swieten 's name was on it . |
| 28 | One had tried using a hand-held scanner for the job but had given up because it made too many mistakes . |
| 29 | There was a large conservative establishment of senior Muslim divines in the territories , which had tried to fill the political vacuum in June 1967 . |
| 30 | As soon as she left school she had tried to earn a little money by helping in the fields or milking cows or making butter . |