Example sentences of "order try [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be inappropriate to penalise the relatively harmless social use of alcohol by 90% of the population in order to try to control the damage caused mainly by the alcoholic 10% . |
| 2 | … Once this can be done , the ‘ model ’ of the market so created can be manipulated in order to try to assess the likely effect of different levels of advertising expenditure or different patterns of spending — heavy bursts or lighter-weight ‘ drip ’ patterns for example — on sales . |
| 3 | Trainees will be expected to use the CAB information system in order to try to resolve the problems . |
| 4 | We have said goodbye to a person who can not be replaced and the rest of us will have to work the harder and care the more in order to try to fill the gap left by his passing . |
| 5 | If the material is being used on a table or flat surface , it means that in order to use it at a close distance from the eye , the head is bent low over the book in order to try to discriminate the print . |
| 6 | He upset the Tories , who had so vigorously defended his right to the succession , by attacking the Anglican monopoly in worship and education , and then by punishing recalcitrant Anglicans in a specially erected Commission for Ecclesiastical Causes ; he enlarged his standing army , appointing a number of Catholics to prominent positions of command ; and he interfered with local franchises and borough corporations in order to try to secure the election of a Parliament which would be subservient to his wishes . |
| 7 | The system only interacts with the user in order to try to overcome the complexities or limitations of its own mechanisms . |
| 8 | Sometimes , presumably in order to try to influence the climate , there was even a little skirmishing at the highest level , about the timing of various publications . |
| 9 | In addition , potential shareholders were offered telephone vouchers or a bonus share issue if the shares were held for a period of three years , in order to try to prevent the immediate sale of shares after the issue . |
| 10 | This is in order to try to avoid the effects of subrogation , viz where the insurer pays out money to the landlord under an insurance policy he will be subrogated to any rights the landlord may have against the tenant for breaches of covenant which may have given rise to the damage or destruction . |
| 11 | I once chaired at , somebody may remember a sort of constitutional commission as it was grandly called , which we went through all these things with a tooth-comb in order to try to get the composition of the executive committee er , right and appropriate for er , this current time . |
| 12 | Within hours of the meeting , Mr Sharif addressed a special session of parliament which he had called in order to try to impeach the president . |