Example sentences of "try and [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mac-to-PowerPC software start-up , Echo Logic ( UX No 385 ) , fresh from its triumphant debut , figures it has proved the feasibility of its concept and is now starting afresh to try and make the binary compiler technology , FlashPort , easy to use . |
| 2 | Erm , I take the view that we ought to try and make the existing arrangements work and we are fast approaching a very key point er in that process erm I understand that on Thursday , er securities and investments board , the board will consider the er P I A , proposed P I A prospectus and that er within a week or so we shall all be able to read it and to look at it erm and the key point , which really is arises out of what we 're discussing tonight , the key point is what regulatory framework should the P I A place on intermediaries and on er life assurance companies , pension funds , financial advisors generally er in order to ensure that the public interest is protected and that if there are potential frauds erm such as the Levitt case er that we talked about earlier and I think the honourable member in sort of by implication in terms of er community service , er punishments that he referred to , er had also that in mind , er just what should we do to ensure that if there is malpractice and fraud , it 's picked up very , very quickly . |
| 3 | ‘ We believe we have done everything reasonable to try and collect the outstanding cash , ’ said Rosie McLeod , principal officer in the borough treasurer 's department . |
| 4 | Innovations in teaching methods do not usually come in the form of simple additions to a teacher 's repertoire , generalizable to all subject matters , but are usually designed to achieve more effectively an understanding of some particular X. Usually , for a variety of reasons , the descriptions of ‘ how to proceed ’ are not at a level of precision which makes the teacher a programmed automaton ; it follows that any teacher persuaded to adopt the innovation must be willing and able to explore modifications to his repertoire in order to try and achieve the hoped-for improvement in his pupils ' understanding of X at which the innovation is aimed . |
| 5 | Modern scholarship has tended to try and distinguish the different meanings and uses of the words ‘ Devil ’ and ‘ demons ’ . |
| 6 | Erm , also I , I wanted to try and cover the main points and it 's very difficult with a subject like that to , to only give you part of the , the story otherwise people would immediately say , well , yes , but you have n't thought about this or that . |
| 7 | Instinctively I looked around the corridor to try and spot the lurking animal activist . |
| 8 | Was it really better to love and lose than to try and avoid the inevitable pain by not loving at all ? |
| 9 | To make matters worse the scheme included an irrigation scheme on common land used by the women and with the help of the government , the men gained exclusive use of these lands , pushing women onto inferior , poorer quality land where they had to continue to try and grow the traditional rice . |
| 10 | To cure spin out the aim is to try and spread the sideways force of the sail along the rails of the board , rather than it being concentrated on the straining skeg . |
| 11 | Kate found it difficult to keep her colour from rising under the enthusiastic appreciation she was being subjected to , and , to try and break the dangerous spell , she broke into provocative speech . |
| 12 | Before considering them , however , it is convenient to try and identify the equitable principles that the earlier cases had established . |
| 13 | We will be putting officers in there , extra officers , to try and stop the stolen cars and the joy riding . |
| 14 | Casting a critical eye over the mock-up , Adml Eaton said : ‘ We are always wishing to get fewer people in ships and so one of ways is to try and improve the human interface with the machinery . |
| 15 | In July of 1982 , during the Israeli siege of west Beirut , I had myself prowled through the archives to try and discover the political roots of the Lebanese Phalange , Israel 's latest ally in its war against the Palestinians . |
| 16 | And , while Emma and Sophie were still happy here in London , she had no alternative but to try and endure the venomous pin-pricks of her elderly mother-in-law . |
| 17 | An alternative is to try and utilise the participating adults as observers who might subsequently be able to provide sufficient contextual detail to support interpretations of the transcribed speech . |
| 18 | Quickly Harvey ran round the front of the car to try and open the other door . |
| 19 | Apart from the CDs I have already reviewed , I have been playing through others in the series to get things into perspective and to try and plot the diverse range of Liszt 's output which has so far been performed and recorded with such remarkable consistency . |
| 20 | And erm I I w we went up on er To try and get the basic wage increased and er I know Mr he was the er general manager at the time . |
| 21 | ETA is passionately campaigning and investigating to try and maintain the total ban ; a ban that has been in place barely enough time for a baby elephant to have been conceived and born . |
| 22 | ETA is passionately campaigning and investigating to try and maintain the total ban ; a ban that has been in place barely enough time for a baby elephant to have been conceived and born . |
| 23 | Because clearly in in debating this policy I think a number of the districts have also raised diff different points of interest in terms of what should be recognized as exceptional development and we we went down that that road a couple of years ago and unfortunately the districts came to the conclusion that it was n't appropriate to try and list the exceptional circumstances . |
| 24 | One of Derry 's pressing problems is that they do n't possess a natural left-sided midfielder — hence the constant chopping and changing to try and find the right balance across the middle . |
| 25 | Ted Willoughby , who had looked after Sugar throughout its service with 467 Squadron , came on to the scene and offered to try and find the missing items and then re-fit them to the aircraft , to which Jack Bruce readily agreed . |
| 26 | Morrison 's solicitor commented that the decision was ‘ outrageous ’ , and that an appeal would be lodged immediately to try and save the two-and-a-half-year-old dog . |
| 27 | The Rao government moved swiftly to try and tackle the economic crisis . |
| 28 | It had become a sort of trouble-shooting body that had been put in to try and dish the Foreign Office and got a bloody nose . |
| 29 | For this reason it is best to try and connect the additional radiator to the largest bore pipework you can . |
| 30 | Third , the political turbulence of the seventies born of economic failure and increasing unemployment , destroyed consensus and brought " conviction politics " and real choice back to the fore with a vengeance : the Conservatives rediscovered old roots in their opposition to state intervention and their commitment to the free market ; the Labour Party rediscovered socialism and attacked the free market of capitalism at the same time as they were eager to fashion an interventionist state ; the specifics of nationalist sentiment ebbed and flowed in unpredictable ways ; and only the Liberal-SDP Alliance seemed eager to try and recreate the moderate consensus politics and policies of the fifties , and they did this despite growing signs that the social and economic conditions that made those policies viable had ceased to exist . |