Example sentences of "[adj] try [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a tough market for the British to try to take a slice of . |
| 2 | He listens to early 70 's progressive rock , not contemporary rap music — and he wears a denim shirt with a tie — the clothes of a 35 year old trying to get a job in a suburban jeans boutique . |
| 3 | They agreed it would be unsafe to try to get a message to London . |
| 4 | If your opinion is asked , it may be gently given but , in nearly every case , it is neither right nor effective to try to end a relationship forcibly . |
| 5 | In some organizations it is futile to try to implement an idea-handling procedure of any kind . |
| 6 | It might indeed be stupid to try to stop a man from attacking a helpless woman … but … |
| 7 | It is no doubt laudable to try to craft an executive branch that ‘ looks like America ’ . |
| 8 | The hearth itself was often fiercely guarded by a cook , and it would cause great offence if the ‘ lady of the house ’ spent any time in the kitchen , let alone tried to prepare a meal . |
| 9 | ‘ I am also busy trying to form a wildlife group in the Darlington area for members and non-members of the trust . |
| 10 | I was busy trying to set a grammar school on a new course , meeting the heads of the other secondary schools for a long and sticky evening in the north Oxfordshire village of Adderbury , and experiencing some of the excitements and discomforts involved in shuffling and reorganization : it was the year in which C. P. Snow published his Corridors of Power . |
| 11 | I 'm too busy trying to make a tape of someone mowing the lawn who is also trying to watch the Cup Final , who is trying to get the rest of the family to shut up . |
| 12 | Someone comes up to you and you only have to say you 're not interested in drugs ; sooner or later they 'll leave you alone because they 're too busy trying to find a £5 deal to bang up with in the evening . |
| 13 | It is difficult trying to build a theory on such subjective criteria . |
| 14 | In the bad old days you could go crazy trying to match a driver 's configuration to the switch settings on a LAN card . |
| 15 | So it is necessary to try to find an explanation for the continued existence of the stateless image among Zuwaya , and for its periodic episodic salience , its power to determine action in a modern state . |
| 16 | Mr Heath claimed that , because his share of the vote was higher than Labour 's , he was entitled to try to form a government . |