Example sentences of "[noun] have tried [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , drinking champagne with journalists , he flew home to a Teheran in which his supporters had tried to re-erect the toppled statues of his father . |
| 2 | A statement issued by the party noted that Saadeh had tried to persuade the Syrian government to support a postponement . |
| 3 | Workmen on the site had tried to catch the under-nourished dog , but had n't managed to get anywhere near her — they all thought that she must have been very badly abused because she was so terrified of people . |
| 4 | Sometimes Christians have tried to build the new Jerusalem on earth , and church history is littered with the debris of broken dreams , from the wreckage of Byzantium to the forgotten Puritan theocracy of New England . |
| 5 | He was there to explain to the court that he and the other officers had tried to control the Nazi leaders ' demands for gross reprisals for the deaths of the Germans in the Via Rassella . |
| 6 | But the eastern Europeans have tried to put the past four decades behind them as if they had never existed . |
| 7 | Bryan Wilson ( 1970 ) has contributed some very useful sub-divisions of the sect category and various sociologists have tried to classify the new religions that have emerged during the second half of the present century in an attempt to find some order in the enormous variety of beliefs , practices and organisations that are manifested in these movements ( eg Beckford , 1985 ; Wallis , 1983 ) . |
| 8 | Some sociologists have tried to describe the general features of ‘ industrial society ’ or even ‘ modern society ’ , arguing that ‘ industry ’ imposes a special pattern on society and social institutions . |
| 9 | That is to say , all species have tried to convert the whole world in to themselves if they possibly can . |
| 10 | The study did not spring into being overnight of course , and for over a decade a number of community groups throughout Appalachia have tried to combat the worst excesses of a pattern of landownership which breeds power without responsibility . |