Example sentences of "has tried [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its president , Lewis Preston , has tried to sharpen lending and budgetary procedures . |
| 2 | ‘ That silly bastard has forgotten about the petrol and has tried to light a fag ! ’ exclaimed Duncan . |
| 3 | The name of ‘ Derrida ’ has been used in such a way as to imply that it refers to a real person who has certain ideas and theories which he has expressed in various books and essays , and which this introduction has tried to repeat , treating them as signifieds that can be represented in a number of different forms . |
| 4 | This image is completely different to the image that is presented to Mitch , who looks on Blanche as a true ‘ lady ’ : ( Mitch has tried to embrace her — ) |
| 5 | Commenting on Labour 's public expenditure plans , The Economist said : ’ It has tried to respond to its familiar dilemma — of wanting to be a high-spending party without being a high-taxing one — by splitting itself in two . |
| 6 | While the Secretary of State has tried to assure the House about the problems and implications of recognition of Croatia , will he try once more to reassure us about that recognition ? |
| 7 | I noted what my right hon. Friend the Member for Aylesbury ( Sir T. Raison ) said and it is interesting that , in reply , the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent , Central ( Mr. Fisher ) has tried to sit on both sides of the fence on the difficult question of acquisitions and disposals . |
| 8 | I 'm not yet totally convinced by the US research on the chemical nature of this liquid but ( as far as I know ) no-one on this side of the Atlantic has tried to analyse it . |
| 9 | Jeff Dujon has tried to take evasive action from a ball that has climbed from just short of a length , but has gloved it . |
| 10 | Speaking from behind a barred gate and protected by armed guards the unnamed brother said : ‘ We would n't be surprised that because of that book someone sought retribution , and has tried to take out all Ian 's seed , which is a Middle Eastern style of doing things . |
| 11 | My hon. Friend is right : he has raised one of the areas in which Britain has tried to take a lead in the discussions in the Community . |
| 12 | What , then , are the lessons which Margaret Donaldson has tried to teach us ? |
| 13 | Time and again Carolyn has tried to teach the horse something which he did n't seem to get quite right but the next day one of us has asked and he 's done it . |
| 14 | According to leading dermatologist Professor Malcolm Greaves , one of the many doctors who has tried to treat Graham , there are thousands of conditions which can affect the human skin . |
| 15 | Mr Aznar has tried to combat them by promising ‘ rational change ’ , pledging to keep , for example , Spain 's restrictive abortion law . |
| 16 | Attempts to provide land use data for other countries are bedevilled by even worse problems of definition and classification than those already outlined , but Best ( 1979 ) has tried to harmonize European national statistics to produce the figures shown in Table 8.2 , and in the USA although Jackson ( 1980 , 6 ) has argued that : ‘ it is almost impossible to provide adequate statistics on land use … because of differing definitions ’ , he has nonetheless provided the estimates shown in Table 8.2 using Department of Agriculture statistics . |
| 17 | Since he married Vera — the one big mistake in his life — she has tried to force us apart , and keep him from his family . |
| 18 | She has spoken at the UN and given lectures abroad in which she has tried to draw attention to Central America 's most beautiful and most tragic republic . |
| 19 | Elaborate analysis of the data has tried to unite these discrepant theories . |
| 20 | The IEE has tried to negotiate with Thomson , offering help with writing and publishing his biography in time for the fiftieth anniversary of Blumlein 's death in June 1992 . |
| 21 | Eastman Kodak Co has filed a patent infringement suit against Sony Corp and Sony Corp of America over use of a magnetic recording system that was patented by Kodak which uses a record head with a reduced magnetic gap length : Kodak said it has tried to negotiate a licence agreement with Sony over its use of the patent since the late 1980s . |
| 22 | Now it 's pretty obvious one side the fo A forklift has tried to put a pallet in between two and nudged the pallet next to it and it 's the pallet 's dropped down into the racking . |
| 23 | The mother has tried locking him in his room , and smacking him . |
| 24 | It seems that the director , Wendy Toye , has tried to mirror the film on stage . |
| 25 | From an early stage the Soviet Union has tried to exploit Latin American dependence on imported oil . |
| 26 | Silver has tried to ally these fears — |
| 27 | The Catholic church , led by Bishop Torukwon has tried to hold the Tren regime in check , but is becoming increasingly isolated , especially with the rise of the powerful Islamic Faction . |
| 28 | We can summarize a complex process by suggesting that since 1979 central government has tried to extend market provision and market coordination into areas in which non-market , governmental or hierarchical coordination had previously been the norm . |
| 29 | The Forum has tried to collect views through a biennial request to individual organisations and associations to bring forward suggested areas for research but this did not prove fruitful . |
| 30 | The council has tried to collect the arrears by issuing final notices and summonses , and now holds distress warrants relating to the majority of accounts . |