Example sentences of "and try [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And his programme was to try to show that really ultimately the only things that can be accepted are our own sense experiences , and to try to exhibit everything else , ordinary material objects , and then of course , physical objects in turn , as constructions , as logical constructions out of these . |
| 2 | She had been content to stay in the house all day and to try to clean it ; but Mrs Aggie had told her she must go to school , at least for part of the day . |
| 3 | South Tees Health Authority plans to help people stop smoking , to help create more smoke-free places and to try to stop young people from starting . |
| 4 | Important though these changes in the nature of the tax resistance movement are , however , perhaps it would be a mistake to view them as an isolated phenomenon , and to try to assess their moral and legal implications without also addressing some even more fundamental contemporary political , economic and social developments with which they are closely associated . |
| 5 | To highlight the problem , and to try to explore solutions , SAVE published a report , A Future for Farm Buildings , which illustrated the many uses to which farm buildings could be put without compromising their character or integrity . |
| 6 | The more the USSR began to probe for influence in Iran and Turkey , and to try to exploit Anglo-American " capitalist contradictions " , the more London began to see possible advantages — for instance — in the spread of American oil interests in the Middle East . |
| 7 | To broaden the emphasis on a two-handed process chart it is possible to add another column labelled ‘ attention ’ or ‘ sensory activity ’ and to try to describe human activity in these areas at particular points in the sequence . |
| 8 | And to try to create jobs for the women so that even if their men are out of work they can provide at least some income . |
| 9 | It is now incumbent on everybody looking after patients following a myocardial infarct to try to reason out what caused the condition and to try to do something about stopping it . |
| 10 | All you can do in life is your best and expect to do your best and to try to go on achieving . |
| 11 | In the end , they make the same decision as most others and decide to go ahead and have children , and to try to reconcile this with their material aspirations . |
| 12 | On 13 September 1979 , a group of market women met to form an association in order to call a halt to the corrupt practices of the market administration and police and to try to improve their working conditions . |
| 13 | I continued to encourage Jack whenever I could and to try to put positive thoughts into his head , especially on the greens . |
| 14 | Challenging the authority of the canon is immensely difficult ; if a writer is great , then s/he will be in the canon ; if a writer is not in the canon , then s/he ca n't be any good , and to try to put him/her there would be an act of mindless obstinacy . |
| 15 | And to try to set the blame on Hector ! ’ |
| 16 | What we do n't see so often , however , is an attempt ( when the characteristic is recognized by management and leadership ) to correct it , or to understand why it exists and to try to set in train processes and plans to change these undesirable attributes . |
| 17 | Hence , it was natural to become preoccupied with climate and to try to set up a geomorphological scheme in which climate dominated erosion and erosion dominated structure and lithology , so that every climatic zone had its characteristic landforms . |
| 18 | It is in fact to be very dogmatic and to try to say something about every other way of knowledge , and every other thing to be known . |
| 19 | With the new season now on top of us , it might be appropriate to expand on the new laws and to try to give the intentions behind the changes in certain areas . |
| 20 | The first is to accept the skill and knowledge of the designer , and to try to give designers improved techniques and improved facilities for exercising this skill and knowledge . |
| 21 | All I can try to do is to outline what theists have been saying when they talk of God , and to try to offset some popular misconceptions of what they mean . |
| 22 | Before proceeding , it is perhaps appropriate to examine what is meant by deregulation and to try to access the likely effect of the philosophy if it is fully extended to international air transport . |
| 23 | This last year all these outgoings have meant that fundraising has been a real necessity and to try to relieve that pressure , the committee have decided to raise the subs . |
| 24 | This is a collection of papers from an early seminar held to discuss , and to try to define and explain , deindustrialization . |
| 25 | In later years he was once asked whether he , who was shy , was anguished when forced to go out visiting homes in Liverpool and to try to make the first touch with a strange family . |
| 26 | Those of us who remember the horrid cruelties applied to Frank Williams in the days when he was generally considered ‘ Wanker Williams ’ , an outsider with no chance to make good , can remember how it felt for Emerson to climb down off his mountain and to try to make good in a changing and by then wholly different world . |
| 27 | The Christian communities ( Comunidades Cristianas de Base ) were initially small study groups set up by local parishes to discuss social problems and to try to find practical ways of solving them through community action . |
| 28 | This agreement between the governments in London and Dublin was an attempt to promote co-operation between them and to try to find a joint approach to at least some of the problems of Northern Ireland . |
| 29 | The pupils were asked to plot pairs of points and to try to find a rule for working out the coordinates of the midpoints of the lines joining these pairs of points . |
| 30 | Neither does one have to invoke Marxism to take history seriously and to try to understand the various forces which are at work and the way in which certain classes , institutions and pressure groups have used power to maintain inequality . |