Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christmas trees , and I have two small children that to try to sustain Christmas for three or four days is very difficult , to do it for three months is impossible ! |
| 2 | In the meantime , Emilia Lanier tried to provide means for this grandson and his sister , Mary , by claiming in Chancery heritable rights in the patent for the weighing of hay and straw . |
| 3 | He went on to propose a Rainbow Curriculum — without actually reading it first — which tried to teach tolerance for all , but in the process had to discuss homosexuality with kids of eight . |
| 4 | But , as Mao grew increasingly suspicious of and isolated from more distinguished revolutionary veterans , he turned increasingly to his secretary for help as he tried to rally support for more radical , leftist policies . |
| 5 | One problem for the Virginia planters was that tobacco could be grown in England ; James I agreed to help the company by making tobacco-growing illegal in England and , although people broke the law and tried to raise tobacco for much of the rest of the century , the American monopoly was eventually made effective . |
| 6 | Readers of the various chapters in Unwin ( 1969 ) will see a clear distinction made between what may be called education plus technology ( where individuals try to find uses for available equipment ) and the study of instructional methods and systems , which is what the true discipline of educational technology is properly concerned to encourage . |
| 7 | It tries to include guidelines for good practice between adviser and client as well as accurate information . |
| 8 | Some would like to smoke , but that is absolutely out : a fire at Buckingham Palace while it tries to raise money for fire-gutted Windsor Castle would not be amusing . |
| 9 | While we have tried to offer suggestions for possible mixtures of cichlids , often as not it is a case of trial and error . |
| 10 | I 've been trying to spot room for that |
| 11 | He 's trying to find reasons for this , this woman to be in the house . |
| 12 | THE RSPCA is trying to find homes for two dogs with pedigrees . |
| 13 | You know we l lost money on that but , an and trying to find excuses for that . |
| 14 | The Peking Daily accused the West of trying to subjugate China for 40 years and of now waging ‘ psychological warfare and dreaming of victory without war ’ . |
| 15 | Ladbrokes and Hills offer a more generous 9-4 about the French star , who will be trying to make amends for agonising short head defeats in the last two Gold Cups . |
| 16 | Wet through again I wandered about inside the house touching pictures , clocks , trying to feel loss for these things , but it would n't come this time — that sense that had been with me since the reading of Francis 's Will had vanished . |