Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But the eastern Europeans have tried to put the past four decades behind them as if they had never existed . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |