Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [art] government " in BNC.

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1 " I will try to persuade the government of Israel that it is counterproductive , " he declared .
2 The unity of India was imperilled , he said , by a government which was ‘ at the mercy of the rightists and the charity of the leftists ’ and which held power only by the magnanimity of the Congress leader , Mr Rajiv Gandhi , who did not try to form a government .
3 The caretaker Prime Minister will try to form a government this week .
4 Scotland had of course been embroiled in the long-standing hostility between England and France before ; but not until the 1540s and 1550s did these powers actually try to determine the government and internal affairs of the country .
5 There , representatives of British manufacturers will try to overturn the government 's commitment , made only last month , to put the onus on the car firms to produce vehicles that could run on low octane petrol by 1990 at the latest .
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