Example sentences of "try [to-vb] a new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We think it 's time to try to create a new showcase for young galleries . ’ |
| 2 | tried to inaugurate a new concept of citizenship which would link men of different social classes , The concept was based upon the notion that there was a good common to members of all classes , a goal the existence of which could be established from German Idealist metaphysics and which could be made visible in actual measures of educational reform and social welfare . |
| 3 | Trying out new materials depends on what the artist wants to do and how the medium can be used to advantage ; at the same time it would be foolish to try to fit a new tool exactly into your pattern of work and thus limit it . |
| 4 | Her men stood around , kicked up dust from the ground , and tried to invent a new game . |
| 5 | He tried to start a new conversation . |
| 6 | She says she hoped things would improve but they did n't so she tried to start a new life . |
| 7 | ‘ Theory films ’ such as Sally Potter 's Thriller ( 1979 ) , Laura Mulvey 's own Amy ! ( 1980 ) and Riddles of the Sphinx ( 1976 ) , both made in collaboration with Peter Wollen , and theory-informed documentaries like Michelle Citron 's Daughter Rite ( 1975 ) and Susan Clayton and Jonathan Curling 's Song of the Shin ( 1979 ) all tried to forge a new film language outside of the established structures of mainstream cinema . |
| 8 | That is why already in 1968 , when I was first in government , we tried to develop a new hybrid of social justice and a market economy . |
| 9 | She had lied to him because she wished to evade the unpleasant truth of her life as a rich heiress , to try to make a new life free of old ties and old mistakes , where she would be loved as McAllister , who had nothing . |
| 10 | However hard one may try to place a new ballet in any of the style categories already mentioned , it is noticeable that the basic style of dance used in any ballet is usually merged with another . |
| 11 | The row over Digital Equipment Corp 's decision to end manufacturing in Galway and try to find a new tenant to take over the manufacturing plant — which DEC owns , will not die down , and now the European Commission is to investigate Irish allegations that the UK government lured DEC into keeping its Ayr plant open at the expense of Galway : Commerce & Technology Minister Seamus Brennan , in Brussels for a meeting of European Community industry ministers , said Dublin had asked Competition Commissioner Karel van Miert to probe media reports that DEC had been offered inducements to keep the Ayr plant open — but no-one seems to have said just what these alleged inducements are ; the UK government on Friday denied the allegations , saying any assistance it might or might not have given would have been fully in accordance with Community rules , and invited Community auditors to ‘ come and look at the books any time ’ . |
| 12 | When , in the opening scene , McKendrick tries to initiate a new topic , by referring to the " fictions problem " ( p. 46 ) , Anderson fails to take it up because he fails to realise that McKendrick is referring to the paper which Anderson himself is going to give . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You have tried to create a new LIFESPAN user using option 7.2.1 — Create User , without having the privilege CREATE USER . |
| 16 | Winter has also tried to introduce a new system of joint consultation , but with disappointing results to date . |
| 17 | As you are trying to find a new angle of vision , it is particularly important that you avoid familiar or worn-out ways of writing . |
| 18 | In the garden you will see them nosing around trying to find a new place to dig a hole . |
| 19 | Ghatak saw himself as groping , experimenting with each film , trying to find a new form to say something new , now picturesque , now documentary , now epic , now experimental , now melodrama . |
| 20 | An Australian soap star is trying to launch a new career over here . |
| 21 | They have been trying to design a new force structure that would both live within the expected budget cuts and be capable of responding effectively to all imaginable crises . |
| 22 | Together , both companies are trying to set a new standard for the more complex computing world of the 1990s : a jointly developed operating system called OS/2 . |
| 23 | It 's too big to take out with you but the drawings and descriptions of over 300 common British birds are great for teaching beginners what to look out for when trying to identify a new bird . |
| 24 | Well you do get aeriated though when you 're trying to do a new job do n't you ? |
| 25 | While even this degree of relief Chairman in the town centre would be welcome , the problem comes in trying to justify a new bypass in terms of its cost effectiveness . |
| 26 | I was trying to start a new life on a building site ! |
| 27 | ‘ Establishing a level of confidence is quite important when you are trying to start a new business ’ — especially in a sector like aerospace . |
| 28 | Or they could be used to design new strategies ; useful , for example , to politicians trying to get a policy on the agenda , or a sales manager trying to market a new product . |
| 29 | When the computer is trying to save a new file to a disc , it looks for the first available fragment of space , writes as much of the new file as will fit , then looks for another available fragment of space , writes a bit more , and so on until all the file is written somewhere on the disc . |
| 30 | Clark and Fraser were trying to control a new set of television nabobs with priorities quite unlike those of the forty-year-old BBC , whose task was to ‘ inform , educate and entertain ’ , in that order . |