Example sentences of "[noun sg] try [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poor countries , rather than banning imports of hazardous waste — as the Organisation of African Unity tried to do in the 1989 Bamako convention — should accept it and legalise it . |
| 2 | The music industry tried to interfere with the sale of twin cassette music centres in CBS Songs Ltd. v Amstrad Consumer Electronics plc [ 1988 ] , on the basis that , by the sale and advertising of these machines , Amstrad were inciting the public to infringe copyright . |
| 3 | Mr Kallisher told the jury : ‘ The defendant tried to raise in the minds of the police a suspicion that Julie had been dealing with drugs stolen from the hospital and perhaps her murder was connected with that , not with him . ’ |
| 4 | Similarly , light tries to travel in a straight line , but the curvature of space-time near the sun causes the light from distant stars to be bent if it passes near the sun . |
| 5 | We may efface the intellect in our teaching or in our practice , but we can not escape the uneasy conscience of a good mind trying to adapt to a bid faith . |
| 6 | A policeman ran past the poet trying to get to the crowd before it became an unruly mob . |
| 7 | ‘ People are bound to get excited when they see a ten-million-ton starship trying to fly down the street . ’ |
| 8 | When they were still two miles away his headlights caught a half-naked figure trying to scramble through a hedge . |
| 9 | Strands of early morning mist still clung to the hollows as the sun tried to break through the patchy cloudscape . |
| 10 | First , it is appropriate for those working with a child to try to communicate at the right level ; this means introducing language structures with which the child is already familiar and trying to ensure that the content of conversations is appropriate to the child 's ability to understand and to her interests . |
| 11 | ‘ The fool tried to get to the horse . |
| 12 | A SHORT-SIGHTED burglar tried to break into an optician 's but could n't see the right way in . |
| 13 | A good example of dogged determination to try to force into the marketplace an extremely ingenious invention which had been rejected by the consumer , was our pursuit of merulite packings for soft drinks . |
| 14 | Desperate scribes battled with bureaucracy to try to get to the athletes . |
| 15 | In addition to tightening up the compulsory admission and detention procedures , the new Act tries to deal with the difficult issue of consent to treatment . |
| 16 | For some reason we do not think in such simplistic terms and did not dismiss the Director of Licensing at the CAA from office when the pilot of a Vanguard trying to land in a snowstorm at Basle failed to carry out a successful instrument approach and killed all those poor housewives out on a day shopping trip . |
| 17 | I found Jo in the hall trying to get through the scrum of people to the kitchen . |
| 18 | Peter Coni , chairman of the Stewards , announcing the new rules yesterday , criticised a growing number of top crews for entering lesser events at Henley ‘ rather than showing the ambition and confidence to try to win at a higher level ’ . |
| 19 | Faced with either crashing into the heavy gatepost or jumping the dark gaping ditch off far too short a stride , Hullabaloo tried to put in an extra stride and met the obstacle entirely wrong . |
| 20 | When Coca Cola tried to tinker with the taste of Coke an outraged public forced them to return to the original . |
| 21 | Spike 's one eye tried to focus on the movements occurring in front of him . |
| 22 | The second interview ended abruptly when the convalescent tried to embark on a discussion of the merits of his water-colours . |
| 23 | It illustrates the fundamental dichotomy of a headstrong band trying to work with a major label . |
| 24 | The narrator is a figure in transit trying to live in a perceptual present which avoids fixed relations . |
| 25 | Walter Stocker , the head of the Red Cross team trying to deal with the refugee crisis in the central African state , said hordes of peasants had been trekking south since guerrillas of the Rwanda Patriotic Front broke a seven-month ceasefire and attacked army positions on 8 February . |
| 26 | Once Marxism was a value system then capitalism and free enterprise tried to coalesce as a value system — largely unsuccessfully . |
| 27 | Like a voyeur I watched the land-based crew try to decide on the easiest ‘ platform ’ to land the now very silent Staffa baggers . |
| 28 | Idea Tree tries to get around the problem by using a technique called outlining . |
| 29 | Idea Tree tries to get around the problem by using a technique called outlining . |
| 30 | And we 're hanging on to each other trying to get on the plane . |