Example sentences of "[noun pl] have try [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the first time archeologists have tried to restage a bronze age cremation . |
| 2 | It 's the first time archeologists have tried to restage a bronze age cremation . |
| 3 | Traditionally parents have tried to keep a lot of information about life and about their own affairs from their children . |
| 4 | The Appeal Court also rejected the prosecution 's claim that the mutineers had tried to mount a coup d'etat . |
| 5 | Customs had tried to use a ‘ first supply ’ argument that the exempt supply prevented recovery of VAT on all construction and development costs but , following the High Court ruling , apportionment is allowable . |
| 6 | Arsonists have tried to destroy a building which is being converted into a clinic for men who 've sexually abused children . |
| 7 | Since the mid-1980s governments have tried to make a reality of the division . |
| 8 | Crafty commercial banks have tried to win a bit of the business by repeatedly rolling over short-term credits to companies ( though they have had to charge higher rates than long-term lenders ) , or by buying long-term lenders of their own . |
| 9 | ‘ If physicists had tried to discover a way to release nuclear energy before 1939 , they would have worked on anything else rather than the field which finally led to the discovery of fission , namely radiochemistry . |
| 10 | Since the start of the Troubles , a number of loyalist trade unionists had tried to create a province-wide organization of unionist workers and by late 1973 the plans of men such as Billy Kelly , a power workers ' shop steward , Billy Hull , ex-Northern Ireland Labour Party , and Hugh Petrie , a precision engineer from Shorts , were sufficiently advanced for them to propose to the loyalist politicians that the province could be brought to a halt by a strike . |
| 11 | To that commonsense objection , the government and its lawyers had tried to make a convincing response . |
| 12 | ATTACKERS have tried to burn a man out of his Lisburn home . |
| 13 | Many commentators have tried to draw a distinction of economic principle between the ERM and a Single Currency . |
| 14 | The courts have to try to strike a balance between the two . |
| 15 | Many researchers have tried to obtain a medium for growing antibodies that is free from calf serum . |
| 16 | Ham-fisted thieves had tried to steal a Metro GTi from my driveway . |