Example sentences of "[vb pp] to try [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's worth mentioning too , that during the year , er , Dr Tim , the general practitioner , who is seconded with er , Social Services , has been doing work on hospital discharge , making sure that the arrangements are , are working , and his reports have been picked up by the respective authorities , and , er , there has er , a sort of action plan has been put together , which is , which is intended to try to improve the er , existing hospital discharge arr arrangement , making sure that people are discharged from hospital and that the er , right type of care is available for them in , in the community . |
| 2 | Experiments were therefore designed to try to show the existence of bicarbonate secretion by the normal human oesophagus . |
| 3 | A professor of chemistry , Mr Gidaspov is expected to try to galvanise the party campaign , in the same way as Mr Yuri Prokofyev , the new party leader in Moscow . |
| 4 | A professor of chemistry , Mr Gidaspov is expected to try to galvanise the party campaign , in the same way as Mr Yuri Prokofyev , the new party leader in Moscow . |
| 5 | It therefore seems directly consistent with the theory that candidates were forbidden to try to persuade the voters that they had better policies or attitudes than other candidates : a directive which had distinctive consequences for the pattern of the contest . |
| 6 | Inevitably , the very fact that someone has decided to try to record the child 's language makes this ideal unattainable . |
| 7 | 15 She had good reason to suspect that it would , for long before the 1924 show opened , she had decided to try to convince the critics to change their ideas about her work by changing the nature of what she exhibited . |
| 8 | The Sri Lankan government has moved to try to counter the criticisms of its human rights record . |
| 9 | France Telecom has moved to try to improve the situation — nearly a month ago , the operator reviewed its objectives and decided to offer GSM service to 90% of the French population in 1994 , rather than in 1997 , as it had previously planned , but that was not enough to satisfy the new government . |
| 10 | A £50,000 reward has been offered to try to trap the killer of two backpackers . |
| 11 | Bill Clinton 's cat is suffering from stress , and a team of feline psychiatrists has been commissioned to try to alleviate the anxiety neurosis of America 's most photographed pet . |
| 12 | Yet there have been some areas where functionalist accounts have been elaborated to try to explain the persistence of both stability and of internal tensions within the state apparatus . |
| 13 | Petrol bombs were used to try to set the place alight . |
| 14 | A machine like this employing a beam of radiation was used to try to destroy the tumours . |
| 15 | Additional yaw will also occur if the ailerons are used to try to stop the dropping wing because of the extra aileron drag . |
| 16 | They have been used to try to solve the problem of general properties or universals . |
| 17 | It was held that the very considerable force — the defendants injured four policemen — used to try to prevent the police from entering was justified . |
| 18 | Certainly , the Navy was ordered to blockade the Straits of Gibraltar but , otherwise , merely bureaucratic measures were used to try to bring the rebels to heel . |
| 19 | The Review Panel would have had to try to persuade the court that complying with FRED 1 failed to give a true and fair view , and it would have been presenting this argument at the same time that companies generally were being compelled to comply with FRS 3 ( a not fundamentally revised version of FRED 1 ) in order to give a true and fair view . |
| 20 | ‘ We have got to try to help the police . |
| 21 | It 's thought that badgers may transmit the disease , and now new tests may be introduced to try to combat the problem . |
| 22 | Stephen felt compelled to try to force the government 's hand in extending the registry . |
| 23 | In practice it is better to show in evidence for the prosecution that the defendant was also asked to try to get the horn to work as explained at ( D ) ( b ) of offence number 20 . |
| 24 | Each mother/child pair was observed while playing and during sessions in which the mothers were asked to try to get the infant to make a noise . |
| 25 | The monkeys were left to try to extract the food for themselves . |
| 26 | A campaign has started to try to cut the rising number of children dying from solvent abuse . |
| 27 | The latter part of this subclause is inserted to try to avoid the difficulty that could arise where a landlord declines to accept rent in order not to waive a breach of covenant by the tenant , which it has been suggested could have a similar effect of releasing the guarantor , but this is not certain . |
| 28 | The authorities recognized the tendencies in the system to favour certain social categories , and steps were taken to try to redress the bias by , for example , laying down quotas for membership of certain groups , like women and young people . |
| 29 | ‘ He investigated every possibility and was determined to try to overcome the illness . |
| 30 | The new British prime minister , Sir Anthony Eden , who had finally managed to take over the reins of power from Churchill only in 1955 , was determined to try to moderate the hostility between Britain and her former wartime ally after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953 . |