Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] try [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has : a strong rhythm repetition a sense of humour Try to bring all these out as you read it . |
| 2 | The Authority spent a good deal of time trying to persuade such Boards to avoid deficits by raising tariffs to remunerative levels , but commercial disciplines were inevitably weakened by such dual responsibility and ad hoc decisions . |
| 3 | Spending a great deal of time trying to achieve these goals will be unproductive and frustrating . |
| 4 | I mean our building was n't touched but I I somehow always thought they would n't come there because they were so trapped , but they did and they spent quite a lot of time trying to get those cars going . |
| 5 | I spend enormous amounts of time trying to develop this characteristic in my company . |
| 6 | Instead , I shall draw on some of what has evolved over the last half century as ‘ curriculum theory ’ in education to try to suggest some frameworks and perspectives for analysing the wealth of detail which the system displays . |
| 7 | Even writers working in solitude try to form some idea of the receiver of their work and adjust to it — the meaningfulness of what they say can be viewed as a measure of the success of that prediction and adjustment . |
| 8 | A complete review of what is now a vast , varied — and sometimes idiosyncratic — literature would take us well beyond our available space and our aim here will be to summarise the main approaches to the topic , in order to try to disentangle some arguments in the debate and draw some general conclusions from it . |
| 9 | In order to try to elucidate this controversial argument , we can return to the well-known remark in the essay ‘ Différance ’ : |
| 10 | But in order to try to keep some of America 's weaker carriers in the air he has decided to increase the limit on the stake a foreign investor can hold in an American airline from 25% to 49% . |
| 11 | Councillor did in fact try to take some credit for one or two things in his speech . |
| 12 | These arise from a household 's obligation to devote many unpaid hours of work to caring for its dependent members , and from the fact that some households have only one fit person of working age who has to choose between doing this , or going out to earn a living , or driving themselves to exhaustion trying to do both . |