Example sentences of "[prep] try [to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean they 've already made the mistake once of trying to lay down the law too heavily erm th this might seem , this seems to , to accommodate most I mean how erm if you 've got a cadre in a village I mean how supportive is he and how how is he going to implement er radical change ? |
| 2 | The council is in the process of trying to clean up the allotment area . |
| 3 | He did n't believe in the idea of people possessed by devils , because it seemed to him that that was only a way of trying to tidy up the world by pigeon-holing everything . |
| 4 | Vidal , whose portfolio was taken over by Victor Yamamoto Miyakawa , accused the government of trying to cover up the seriousness of the disease 's spread . |
| 5 | It is like trying to ladle out the sea with a sieve . ) |
| 6 | Then blindfold them and invite them to take four steps backwards followed by four forward before trying to blow out the candle . |
| 7 | She 'd had difficulty in sleeping these past few nights , although she was exhausted from trying to clean up the house after she finished work each day . |
| 8 | But the student , in trying to speed up the reaction , took short-cuts in his formula . |
| 9 | We were closely involved in trying to set up the transport arrangements : we had to get the airforce to ferry the pieces from Phnom Penh to Bangkok and then the Australian national carrier Qantas to bring them to Australia . ’ |
| 10 | The answer lay not in trying to play down the search for glory in war , but in channelling these energies towards the service of the king who represented the public good and honour of a nation or people . |
| 11 | There is enough to do without trying to take on the role of quality controller standing by the conveyor belt of education , rejecting two out of three products as sub-standard . |
| 12 | It may well be worth trying to gum up the joint with a mastic sealant or self-adhesive bitumastic flashing rather than going to all the trouble of dismantling the system : use the sealant on the joints even if you do dismantle and reassemble them . |
| 13 | Woodfall , the company set up by Tony Richardson and John Osborne to exploit the profits from Look Back in Anger , with the aim of proving ‘ that good films , ones that showed British life as it really is , could be made cheaply ’ , nevertheless had no particular strategy for trying to bring down the budgets of films from the £100,000 or so they were costing to the £30,000 level that , for example , French filmmakers worked to . |
| 14 | Often sounding like there 's no one driving , Mark 's recipe for recording involves bringing the barest bones of a song into the studio , letting the musicians bend it , stretch it , squash it , cook it and generally rip it to shreds , before setting about trying to sort out the sparks from the farts . |
| 15 | Real life , however , is rather different , as an American family has proved by trying to live out the film . |
| 16 | Today , while Maudie was filling a grocery order to the delivered by hand , he had decided to amuse him self by trying to clamber up the shelves , and succeeded in pulling down several tins of treacle . |
| 17 | On the coast too , where we are used to the process of erosion ( though its scale has been heightened by the storms ) , how long can the Trust continue to play King Canute by trying to win back the dune systems , as at Woolacombe in North Devon ? |
| 18 | People frequently get into difficulties with this age group by trying to think through the consequences of suggestions before trying them out , which requires an inappropriately sophisticated level of thought on the part of the children . |