Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On these occasions , the hon. Member for Oldham , West is always quick to try to compare social security with the Inland Revenue 's processing of people 's tax returns . |
| 2 | Recently , an expert panel of the august National Academy of Sciences ( NAS ) tried to weave some consistency into cancer risk assessment . |
| 3 | His purpose is to try to target legal aid on individual need and he continues to seek ways — as we all must — to reduce the cost of litigation , both criminal and civil . |
| 4 | Did his opinion of her prompt him to try to scotch any possibility of a friendship developing between Rob and herself ? |
| 5 | For the next eighteen years people like Hendrik Lorentz and George Fitzgerald tried to accommodate this observation within accepted ideas of space and time . |
| 6 | For President Saddam Hussein 's apparent move to clear the way towards peace , is being seen here as a cynical bid to try to dilute western opposition against him . |
| 7 | In one case , in which three different cuckoos parasitised the nest of a great reed warbler , one chick was thrown out soon after hatching : the other two then tried to eject each other for four days . |
| 8 | He believed that the PASOK movement could make a real contribution to European as well as Greek politics , but after serving as education minister in Papandreou 's second administration ( when he tried to reintroduce classical Greek into the school curriculum ) , he left to found his own ill-starred party , the Greek Radical Movement . |
| 9 | The morning after the general 's briefing , Iraq brought its latent air capability out of hiding , and tried to hit allied warships in the Gulf . |
| 10 | As he himself said , it would be pointless to study such peoples with a questionnaire , since they do not write , and , while he certainly gained a great deal of essential information from conversation and discussion , it would have been quite futile to try to conduct any kind of interview until he had gained their trust and confidence , and until he had some idea of what kinds of questions he should be asking . |
| 11 | The point was to create first-time theatre-goers , so we tried to target poorer areas on the whole . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ At the World Cup final in Gothenburg , for example , I tried to treat each day as a normal day , doing my best in the individual classes and not worrying about the final result . |
| 13 | The important point is not to try to harmonise this account with that of Luke in the Acts — after all , John in all probability never read Luke 's work , and presents the material in a very different manner and with different aims . |
| 14 | This is a temptation one should in general resist , as l regard it as a cardinal rule in developmental biology not to try to infer developmental mechanisms from final forms . |
| 15 | ‘ To try to provide good government to the people of Egypt is hardly to be a traitor . ’ |
| 16 | In addition , reformers tried to obtain antislavery pledges from parliamentary candidates or MPs and at critical moments called national conferences to shadow parliamentary deliberations . |
| 17 | Coleman tried to obtain veterinary representation on the examining committee , but all efforts failed until after his death . |
| 18 | ‘ Of course , as men always will , I tried to extract some hope from her . |
| 19 | Yeah , well the trouble with the register was that er , when it was put forward , and it was put forward by Tom Burlison and Tom Sawyer of , er and they worked very , very hard , no one harder than Tom Burlison , to try to establish this possibility as a compromise to avoid the sort of conflicts that we 're talking about at the moment . |
| 20 | Again , the Conservative government tried to encourage such activity by enabling them to make one-off tax deductible donations of up to 3 per cent of annual dividends . |
| 21 | The new Civil Code tried to adjust this anomaly by laying down that the right of ownership should lapse at the same time that the right of revendication lapses . |
| 22 | Females are just as colourful as males , and it is hopeless to try to sex this fish on the basis of colour |
| 23 | Sitting in a heavily carved chair to the right of it , George Briant took a sardonic pleasure in the manifest discomfort of the men and women in front of him who moved uneasily in their damp coats and tried to find dry patches on their laps on which to rest their notebooks . |
| 24 | Tried to find famous lake of Chécrout to take ‘ classic ’ photo of Mont Blanc reflected in its waters . |
| 25 | Research workers tried to find carcinogenic materials in kitchens , but further analysis of the data showed that people paid to work in kitchens have less cancer than housewives in spite of spending twice as much time in them . |
| 26 | Dot tried to find beautiful pictures like Mrs Hollidaye did , of meadow flowers , and laughing children , cathedrals and fairy coaches . |
| 27 | and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh . |
| 28 | ‘ So of course the informer — he worked for himself , not the state — tried to find some proof of this . |
| 29 | The Chief Priest and the whole council tried to find some evidence against Jesus in order to put him to death . |
| 30 | There are some very important bits that we need to be making a a note of there , and many witnesses told lies against Jesus , but their stories did n't agree , they tried to find some evidence against him in order to put him to death Mark tells us , but they could n't find any . |