Example sentences of "[noun sg] try [to-vb] [prep] the " 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 | A policeman ran past the poet trying to get to the crowd before it became an unruly mob . |
| 5 | ‘ People are bound to get excited when they see a ten-million-ton starship trying to fly down the street . ’ |
| 6 | Strands of early morning mist still clung to the hollows as the sun tried to break through the patchy cloudscape . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ The fool tried to get to the horse . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Desperate scribes battled with bureaucracy to try to get to the athletes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I found Jo in the hall trying to get through the scrum of people to the kitchen . |
| 13 | When Coca Cola tried to tinker with the taste of Coke an outraged public forced them to return to the original . |
| 14 | Spike 's one eye tried to focus on the movements occurring in front of him . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Like a voyeur I watched the land-based crew try to decide on the easiest ‘ platform ’ to land the now very silent Staffa baggers . |
| 17 | Idea Tree tries to get around the problem by using a technique called outlining . |
| 18 | Idea Tree tries to get around the problem by using a technique called outlining . |
| 19 | And we 're hanging on to each other trying to get on the plane . |
| 20 | How dare this blanc try to interfere with the way things have been done for centuries ? |
| 21 | For example , the post-war British Electricity Authority tried to insist on the protocol of official contact through the board secretary rather than allowing civil servants to make contact directly with specialist personnel ( Hannah 1982 : 44 ) . |
| 22 | When Monday came , her misery gave her a new edge of ruthless efficiency , so that she hardly hesitated in rejecting some of the more out-of-condition stock that the retiring owner tried to include in the valuation . |
| 23 | In the immediate post-war period down to the mid-1950s there were endless external difficulties as the economy tried to recover from the strains of the war ; balance-of-payments crises of a severe kind in 1949 , 1951 , and 1955 , often accompanied by pressure on sterling , were endemic . |
| 24 | Karen Rake of Aylesbury finished fourth in both the 100 and 200 and now has to go the Welsh Nationals next month to try to qualify for the Europeans … |
| 25 | The two policewomen radioed for help when they got into trouble trying to deal with the fracas . |
| 26 | So , you see , it 's no use trying to go over the agent 's head . ’ |
| 27 | No longer does he have to hover over the rod trying to strike at the slightest movement . |
| 28 | Ignoring his mother , Putt tried to speak to the pot-man , but could only utter unintelligible noises . |
| 29 | Under police guard the members of the new union tried to break through the picket line formed by the first union , with fierce clashes taking place … |
| 30 | He drew a clear division between the " free " world and the Communist world , and made it equally clear that if the Soviet Union tried to expand into the free world the USA was prepared to act . |