Example sentences of "[noun sg] tries [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the president tries to encapsulate the national interest to embody the common good and he puts forward policies , not in any spirit of er personal or partisan advantage , but simply for the good of the nation . |
| 2 | Central to problem-solving is a general approach in which the therapist tries to help the patient draw on his own resources to overcome his problems . |
| 3 | A similar description can be given to various parts of A Month in the Country , such as the scène d'action where the entire cast tries to find the lost key , the exquisite pas d'action of Vera and the Tutor , and Kolia 's excited variation playing with a ball . |
| 4 | In contrast with Accommodation Theory this approach tries to relate the linguistic behaviour not just of two interacting individuals relative to each other , but of individuals with respect to the communities in which they find themselves . |
| 5 | If flexibility is insufficient and the golfer tries to reach the parallel position with the club at the top of the backswing , the body will compensate either by folding the right foot onto its side , which can lead to the collapse of the same knee , or falling into a reverse pivot . |
| 6 | In The Comedians , when the once-famous comic tries to explain the healing power of humour , he has to work against his students , who keep falling back into racist , sexist jokes , jokes about cripples , jokes about anyone who is different . |
| 7 | The salesman tries to shape the perceptual bubble . |
| 8 | Dancing rebel Paul Mercurio adds a little Spanish sex to his stride , takes on the ballroom bosses and falls for frump turned dancehall diva Tara Morice , while the relentlessly zippy direction tries to match the hypermanic bump and hustle . |
| 9 | Dirkin tries to climb the slippery mound of garbage , and I grab the waistband of his trousers . |
| 10 | I agree the West must not support such despots by arming them to the teeth , but one thing the war did show was that if any other would-be adventurist in the Middle East tries to do the same as Saddam , he knows what to expect . . |
| 11 | In taking this positive stance , it is important that the counsellor tries to emphasize the personal strengths that are available to combat the problem , and not the weaknesses which led to the problem in the first place . |
| 12 | While some of the same satirical zest is evident in The Bed Sitting Room ( 1969 ) , Lester 's chronicle of a post-holocaust world where a stunned Ralph Richardson imagines he is turning into a bedsitter and a doctor tries to keep the old traditions alive by having someone read the BBC News , and the film shows evidence of a superabundant imagination , the narrative is too unfocused for the satirical barbs to hit home , and the result is often tedious to watch . |