Example sentences of "tried [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | No brief summary can possibly do justice to the depth of the analysis ; but it has already been tried out on some uncommonly hard-nosed customers , and elicited their approbation . |
| 2 | A new questionnaire should always be piloted , that is tried out on a small sample , before it is finalised . |
| 3 | It will be a relief to get the wrangling over with , so that Maastricht 's big promises and improbable programme for monetary union can be tried out on an enlarged Community . |
| 4 | Those that meet with approval are then usually tried out on the terraces , and if found to have some power , make their way into the repertoire . |
| 5 | The formula was tried out on thousands of texts , and norms established using pooled subjective judgements as the initial criterion for fixing and comparing difficulty levels . |
| 6 | Partly because of the volume of this response and partly because of the radical nature of some of these proposals , going well beyond those envisaged in Partnership in Validation , the CNAA has allowed a few of the suggested procedures to be tried out on an experimental basis and while this is happening has virtually declared a moratorium on other ‘ special arrangement ’ proposals . |
| 7 | The simplest form of charts ( Kay , 1986 ) stores all of the hypotheses that have been tried out on the input . |
| 8 | The processor was tried out on a set of estate agents texts that the generative grammar had difficulties in processing . |
| 9 | He thought that it should be tried out on the Scots . |
| 10 | She treated coldly all attempts to dab the scent on her own sleeve , rejected any suggestion that it could suitably be tried out on Owen and Mahmoud , and insisted that it be tested on a woman , an assistant , perhaps , or , preferably , the shopkeeper 's wife , a suggestion which , with its hint of superiority , would have had shopkeepers in the more Westernized parts of the city grovelling but was treated simply commercially in the bazaar . |
| 11 | Initially , the project will be tried out on a pilot basis in three provinces : Riau ; East Kalimantan ; and the Moluccas . |