Example sentences of "[noun] try [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poor countries , rather than banning imports of hazardous waste — as the Organisation of African Unity tried to do in the 1989 Bamako convention — should accept it and legalise it . |
| 2 | Unless those eight masked High Masters were sufficiently confident in their associates to try to journey to the next galaxy and back — in some incredible megaship — to take advantage of time-compression ! |
| 3 | Sobibor was the scene of the biggest prison escape of the Second World War when six hundred Jews rose against their guards to try to escape to the surrounding forest . |
| 4 | ‘ You would not believe the way French cultural tsars try to meddle in the musical life of the country . |
| 5 | Lazarene boys came to throw kisses at the trucks as they left , Justinette and Elice trying to squeeze through the open windows , catcalling back . |
| 6 | Strands of early morning mist still clung to the hollows as the sun tried to break through the patchy cloudscape . |
| 7 | First , it is appropriate for those working with a child to try to communicate at the right level ; this means introducing language structures with which the child is already familiar and trying to ensure that the content of conversations is appropriate to the child 's ability to understand and to her interests . |
| 8 | In addition to tightening up the compulsory admission and detention procedures , the new Act tries to deal with the difficult issue of consent to treatment . |
| 9 | Like a voyeur I watched the land-based crew try to decide on the easiest ‘ platform ’ to land the now very silent Staffa baggers . |
| 10 | Should two adjacent needles try to tuck at the same time , there is nothing between these two needles to actually hold the loops on to the individual needles , so the loops become just one loop , which often falls off both needles . |
| 11 | The only wildlife problem has been created by the jackdaws trying to nest in the front-room chimney , so I have pushed up a chimney brush to discourage them . |
| 12 | No longer does he have to hover over the rod trying to strike at the slightest movement . |
| 13 | No matter how hard the Provincial champions tried to eat into the massive margin the worse it became for them . |
| 14 | He drew a clear division between the " free " world and the Communist world , and made it equally clear that if the Soviet Union tried to expand into the free world the USA was prepared to act . |
| 15 | Forster , who committed suicide , was much hated by the other colonists , who had a hard life trying to farm in the remote swamps plagued by insects . |
| 16 | Many of the difficulties experienced by users trying to cope with the idiosyncratic Shifting system could be solved through adding extra keys to handle the more commonly occurring characters such as the punctuation , mathematical symbols and Delete . |
| 17 | In fact , Marie Hoader tried to account for the negative consequences of unemployment in terms of five things that employment provides in our society , five sorts of experience that more and more , as we are industrialized and as more and more people are involved in working in employment , erm have come to be important and provided via employment , and we talked of two of those earlier — one 's activity and one was time structure — and you 've just raised the issue of feeling that you 're contributing to society in some way , that you 're part of a collective purpose , that you 're not just drawing things out , you 're also doing something useful with your time . |
| 18 | Keeping quiet about such problems may help maintain the fragile balance holding family relationships together , but can cause long-term problems as children try to relate to the outside world . |
| 19 | He spent the final trying to get in the right position to win the race . |
| 20 | On Wednesday night , police were called to the town 's Webster Theatre when 1500 residents tried to cram into the 600 capacity hall and the meeting was abandoned in the interests of public safety . |
| 21 | Emma tried to run from the falling post , which weighed 120lb , but tripped and fell . |
| 22 | The treatment tries to concentrate on the physical ideas and interactions involved , rather than on detailed mathematical analysis and computer results , which are available in the original sources as well as elsewhere in this book : most calculations lead to one or more of the so-called " universal " routes to chaos . |
| 23 | The Jews were caught in the war between Antiochus IV Epiphanes and Ptolemy VI Philometor in which Egypt was saved by Roman intervention in 168 B.C. Antiochus IV who was robbed of his victory by the Romans tried to cope with the consequent social and economic problems by interfering with indigenous sanctuaries and their finances . |
| 24 | Michael was in the forest on the other side of the track trying to head off the roan horse that had run out . |
| 25 | Publicity officer Frances Hopwood told the Herald : ‘ It would be a difficult task trying to report on the many aspects of Le Court which have benefited from her influence and forward thinking during these 19 years but it is thanks to her that Le Court has evolved to be the ‘ flagship of the Leonard Cheshire Foundation ’ . ’ |