Example sentences of "[pron] have try [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the listed newcomers may not sell as well as the established names mentioned beneath them , but they are there very often because publishers are promoting them heavily , and I have tried to pick the best of these . |
| 2 | In this essay I have tried to identify the principal responses of workers to the industrial situation as they experience it . |
| 3 | " In the Night Cafe I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green . " |
| 4 | I have tried to exclude the legendary detectives for another day , but , despite my best efforts , Sam Spade , Philip Marlowe and James Bond have still managed to insinuate themselves : they used foot-in-the-door tactics , I 'm afraid , and who am I to argue ? |
| 5 | In this essay I have tried to make the most of one such region — in which the connection between one 's everyday experience of bodily sensations and one 's conception of the relation of body and mind seems fairly plain : to accept the James-type account , and the general conceptual background of which it is a symptom , is to deny one 's everyday experience of the difference between a pain in one 's foot and a pain in one 's stomach . |
| 6 | I have tried to show the real gap between Labour and the Conservative party and Government on matters of law and order . |
| 7 | The Shah himself has tried to have the British government curb the BBC . |
| 8 | There was a large conservative establishment of senior Muslim divines in the territories , which had tried to fill the political vacuum in June 1967 . |
| 9 | I was remembering what my father had told me about other conquering heroes who had tried to attack the great bear . |
| 10 | Among the few who have tried to compare the two regions , French and Smith ( 1985 ) are concerned particularly with subpolar tundra , and Aleksandrova ( 1980 ) prescribes a simple geobotanical regional zoning that covers both polar and subpolar zones at both ends of the world . |
| 11 | You have tried to start the offline integrity check using option 9.6.0 — Start Offline Integrity Check — and it is already running . |
| 12 | You have tried to start the offline integrity check using option 9.6.0 — Start Offline Integrity Check and it is already running . |
| 13 | We 've tried to blend the traditional Moorish style with modern refinements , ’ he explained , drawing a clean-lined villa with a pillared front door , wrought-iron balcony rails and pretty lacework chimneys . |
| 14 | He says : ‘ We 've tried to avoid the gorier aspects of hospital life , and focused instead on the doctor/patient relationship . ’ |
| 15 | We 've tried to find the right combination of fluid proteins and … ’ |
| 16 | In designing the programme , we have tried to emphasise the vocational aspects of the core skills modules wherever possible . |
| 17 | First , though , we have to try to understand the ordinary human behaviour that we usually call ‘ normal ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He 'd tried to sell the Holy Relic , St Vladimir 's Cross . |
| 20 | What responsibility does it have to try to influence the human outlook ? |
| 21 | But if he had tried to dupe the wily Bobby Anscombe as easily as the innocent Malcolm Harris , it was no wonder that he had come unstuck . |
| 22 | And both , implicitly or explicitly , organize this field historically , for the non-popular is , depending on the perspective , either what the popular has tried to replace or what has tried to replace the popular . |