Example sentences of "tried as [adv] [conj] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw himself as a buffoon with nasty reserves of observation , a man with goonish spectacles clamped round his ears and perfidy in his guts , and he felt so appalled by his mistrust of an old friend who must surely be taken for an ally that he tried as fast as possible to invent some headway on the project about Berlin . |
| 2 | In our first Report we tried as far as possible to avoid the word ‘ grammar ’ , and to explain how important it was for children to use linguistic terminology . |
| 3 | She herself was British , in fact , but having spent several years as a graduate student in California , where she had been converted to radical feminism , she now thought of herself as spiritually an American , and tried as far as possible to speak like one . |
| 4 | ‘ The measure as revised by the committee tried as hard as possible to accommodate the views of those who object to women priests . |
| 5 | Spain tried as early as 1852 to establish the principle of entrance by competitive examination . |