Example sentences of "be tried [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be a relief to get the wrangling over with , so that Maastricht 's big promises and improbable programme for monetary union can be tried out on an enlarged Community . |
| 2 | Partly because of the volume of this response and partly because of the radical nature of some of these proposals , going well beyond those envisaged in Partnership in Validation , the CNAA has allowed a few of the suggested procedures to be tried out on an experimental basis and while this is happening has virtually declared a moratorium on other ‘ special arrangement ’ proposals . |
| 3 | He thought that it should be tried out on the Scots . |
| 4 | She treated coldly all attempts to dab the scent on her own sleeve , rejected any suggestion that it could suitably be tried out on Owen and Mahmoud , and insisted that it be tested on a woman , an assistant , perhaps , or , preferably , the shopkeeper 's wife , a suggestion which , with its hint of superiority , would have had shopkeepers in the more Westernized parts of the city grovelling but was treated simply commercially in the bazaar . |
| 5 | Initially , the project will be tried out on a pilot basis in three provinces : Riau ; East Kalimantan ; and the Moluccas . |