Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [to-vb] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is the first of three tasks he had been picked to do to pave the way for Italy 's first post-reform elections . |
| 2 | Bill Clinton 's cat is suffering from stress , and a team of feline psychiatrists has been commissioned to try to alleviate the anxiety neurosis of America 's most photographed pet . |
| 3 | Yet there have been some areas where functionalist accounts have been elaborated to try to explain the persistence of both stability and of internal tensions within the state apparatus . |
| 4 | A £50,000 reward has been offered to try to trap the killer of two backpackers . |
| 5 | They have been used to try to solve the problem of general properties or universals . |
| 6 | I have been asked to write to restate the views of the Parish Council about this matter . |
| 7 | This was the line that commuters had been asked to switch to avoid the chaos caused by the night 's earlier bombings … at Reading , where one device went off and another was defused , and at Basingstoke , where the device was also defused . |
| 8 | The police claimed that they had been forced to act to disperse the crowds when troublemakers attacked police stations , but protesters disputed this account and described the police action as a massacre . |
| 9 | In his broadcast on Saturday Mr Yeltsin said he had been forced to act to prevent the restoration of Communist rule . |
| 10 | Former policeman Alan Earle , 52 , of High Street , Norton , has been chosen to try to retain the Norton ward for the Tories in the March 12 by-election called after the death of Cleveland County Councillor Hilda Reading . |
| 11 | A campaign 's been launched to try to increase the number of Barn Owls in the region . |
| 12 | A communicative support system has been outlined to try to amplify the sorts of competencies in which the child must become autonomous before the skills which referential communication is measuring are functioning fully . |