Example sentences of "have try [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The second theme I have tried to illustrate throughout this chapter is the distinction between good coping strategies and bad coping strategies . |
2 | We have tried to emphasise in this report the inevitable tentative nature of conclusions to be drawn from the data presented . |
3 | What I have tried to do in this book is to tell how he did it . |
4 | What I have tried to do in this chapter is to suggest a way of looking at towns as though they were a special kind of landscape — as indeed they are — to get behind the guide-books and the individual buildings to the secret history of these places : to draw attention to what I think are some of the significant bits of urban landscape that point the way into this secret history . |
5 | I have tried to show in this discussion that higher learning is not learning at all in any familiar sense . |
6 | I have tried to show in this book that though the academic institutionalizing of vernacular literary study which began about a century ago had good , even inescapable reasons in its origins , its later progress has not had the effects the founders hoped for . |
7 | What I have tried to show in this section is that before we can fully understand the particular historical genres which appear under the labels of programme categories , and , even more importantly , before we can understand the forms of subjectivity which they imply , we need to place them in their historical and institutional relationship to the theoretical genre of novelistic narrative . |
8 | We have tried to avoid in this chapter the sort of generalised waffle about God in which many theologians indulge . |
9 | I have tried to express in another paper one conclusion : |