Example sentences of "[vb base] tried [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've tried to find the right combination of fluid proteins and … ’ |
| 2 | where we 've tried , we 've tried to keep a reasonable pension for them . |
| 3 | He says : ‘ We 've tried to avoid the gorier aspects of hospital life , and focused instead on the doctor/patient relationship . ’ |
| 4 | In designing the programme , we have tried to emphasise the vocational aspects of the core skills modules wherever possible . |
| 5 | Alternatively , you have tried to create a new user without CREATE USER privilege , or you have tried to give a user privileges you do not have yourself , or you have tried to reduce the LIFESPAN Manager 's privileges . |
| 6 | You have tried to create a new LIFESPAN user using option 7.2.1 — Create User , without having the privilege CREATE USER . |
| 7 | You have tried to create a new charge code using option 7.7.1 — Create Charge Code and you do not have MANAGER privilege or you have tried to offline a package using option 9.1.0 — Request Package To Be Offlined , and you are not the package manager . |
| 8 | Among the few who have tried to compare the two regions , French and Smith ( 1985 ) are concerned particularly with subpolar tundra , and Aleksandrova ( 1980 ) prescribes a simple geobotanical regional zoning that covers both polar and subpolar zones at both ends of the world . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Many of course have come to that conclusion before , and those who have tried to reach a naturalistic morality which transcends it have had to read the historical record , or read beyond the historical record , in ways which seek to reveal a partly hidden human nature which is waiting to be realized or perfected . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I have tried to show the real gap between Labour and the Conservative party and Government on matters of law and order . |
| 14 | You have tried to start the offline integrity check using option 9.6.0 — Start Offline Integrity Check — and it is already running . |
| 15 | You have tried to start the offline integrity check using option 9.6.0 — Start Offline Integrity Check and it is already running . |
| 16 | In recent years governments , particularly the Conservatives in Britain , have tried to cut the Gordian knot by imposing cuts in state support and forcing the railways to adapt . |
| 17 | Since the mid-1970s , academics at London 's University College have tried to find a commercial sponsor for their Cellular Logic Array Processor ( CLIP ) . |
| 18 | " In the Night Cafe I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green . " |
| 19 | In this essay I have tried to identify the principal responses of workers to the industrial situation as they experience it . |
| 20 | I have tried to convey a pale memory of our meeting , but further than that I can not go . |
| 21 | That is to say , all species have tried to convert the whole world in to themselves if they possibly can . |
| 22 | I have tried to exclude the legendary detectives for another day , but , despite my best efforts , Sam Spade , Philip Marlowe and James Bond have still managed to insinuate themselves : they used foot-in-the-door tactics , I 'm afraid , and who am I to argue ? |
| 23 | Why , though , could these supposed championship contenders not have tried to emulate the fine passing that had sprinkled the previous weekend 's Merseyside joust ? |
| 24 | I have tried to dismantle an old chair using conventional methods but the glued joints wo n't budge . |
| 25 | 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 . |