Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With what little money I had I would try to wear unusual suits or hats , learning a combination of subtlety and the unexpected in order to gain attention . |
| 2 | In Chapter 10 we discussed how individual firms might try to erect strategic entry barriers to preserve and enhance their market power . |
| 3 | It is an apt and evocative name — but do try to see potential purchases in bloom before you buy , as it is not always reliable and can disappoint ( see pages 139 and 140 ) . |
| 4 | The good adviser will value schools ' own programmes , and be willing to participate in them and provide additional help , but he will also try to stimulate other opportunities of cooperation between schools , wide-ranging discussion in courses and occasional meetings , and curriculum development planning meetings at teachers ' centres and colleges and departments of education . |
| 5 | In your do-it-yourself practice you can try to spot long vowels by contrasting two of them with each other in sentences . |
| 6 | But if Sweden go through this time we will try to arrange extra games . |
| 7 | Argos said it would try to find alternative employment for redundant staff ‘ where opportunities exist ’ . |
| 8 | As Mr Wolski ate his usual morning toast and marmalade he was listening to a spokesman from the RSPB saying , ‘ We think it possible that the eagle will try to find high ground . |
| 9 | Mr Yeltsin 's aides have hinted that he might try to impose presidential rule — a risky path that would require military backing — if Congress continued to undermine his power . |
| 10 | Rather than try to impose large structures on what is happening from the outset , they begin at the most local level , trying to see how participants in interaction handle conversation : how they judge who can speak , and when . |
| 11 | The vendor can try to obtain additional protection by obtaining agreement from the purchaser that the issue of the accounting policies may only be discussed , and if appropriate the policies amended , following due diligence . |
| 12 | To ensure that the breeding of such fish is continued we will try to obtain new specimens whenever possible . |
| 13 | the head office of the multinational should try to establish standard methods of research , so that data collected in each country will be more readily comparable ; |
| 14 | Commentators described Gorbachev 's remarks , particularly the juxtaposition of his announcement about possible secession with his comment about his own and perestroika 's fate , as a bold gamble to confront and try to contain separatist aspirations by endorsing a constitutional path to independence for republics , but at the same time warning of dire consequences should they follow it . |
| 15 | If she responds favourably to this ( which , if you are wise , you will have conveyed more through your attitudes than your actual words ) , you and her other helpers should try to create various circumstances or events which may stand a chance of helping her to break the habit of mourning : an interesting holiday , perhaps , or some new and mildly challenging experience which calls for her to look beyond herself to someone else in trouble , who will make her feel ‘ needed ’ . |
| 16 | Cadbury 's financial support continued to his death as did his two stipulations : the movement should avoid politics if possible ( it was not possible ) and it should try to create Free Church parishes to end ‘ overlapping ’ between denominations ( it did so but to little effect ) . |
| 17 | First , the two initiatives do not try to restrict cooperative R&D ventures to sectors where spillovers are large . |
| 18 | It is important for the prosecution case to try to identify the tyre by taking the tyre or batch number which will usually be something like 824927 E , on the tyre wall in letters and figures about I cm high — in about a quarter of all checks the number is nonexistent or illegible and the police officer should try to remember other forms of identification such as marks or scratches etc. on the tyre . |
| 19 | The oldest rule in the Westminster book is that you do not try to reach difficult decisions in the last week of July . |
| 20 | In each case , I shall try to identify useful concepts and models , and discuss some of the arguments associated with them . |
| 21 | If I have begun by stressing the difficulties connected with the internationalisation of large-scale impersonal capitals , I shall now try to identify certain points d'appui offered for socialist argument by the development of capitalist property relations . |
| 22 | * Individual Classes : Students interested in private or special classes should send details of their requirements and the school will try to organise suitable classes for them . |
| 23 | The route of the first shipment--expected sometime this later year--is being kept secret for security reasons , but the government has said that it will try to avoid territorial waters . |
| 24 | Despite these difficulties it is essential that the therapist should try to incorporate preventive measures in his treatment . |
| 25 | The parties may try to negotiate specific parts of the transaction in detail . |
| 26 | The careers service will also try to give personal help if requested . |
| 27 | Next month he will try to persuade Great Aycliffe Town Council to spend £44,000 on a bus adapted for disabled people . |
| 28 | In Washington President Bush said he would try to persuade other countries to help pay the cost of enforcing the United Nations sanctions aimed at making Iraq withdraw from Kuwait . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm willing to abide by all laws — and I 'll try to persuade other Romanies to do the same , but I 'm not likely to succeed until my people can see these laws protecting as well as persecuting them . ’ |
| 30 | The department 's manager for remote sensing will try to persuade different parts of the government to spend more in this area . |