Example sentences of "try and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various groups within the party were formed to try and achieve particular objectives . |
| 2 | Obviously , the abundance of offers and the haste to try and cover new ground have led to over-production . |
| 3 | We felt it was our duty to try and bring Frank back to himself . |
| 4 | Time which might have been devoted to instructing deaf children in the acquisition of English grammar , arithmetic and other school subjects was , in the view of many leading deaf people including deaf businessmen like A.J.Wilson and George Edward , being curtailed in order to try and give deaf children speech training . |
| 5 | All the same , what 's attractive about Russell is his readiness to admit failures , and to try and suggest new solutions . |
| 6 | The purpose of the present chapter is to note some of the practical difficulties of managing book provision programmes , to try and suggest minimum system requirements for effective management and finally to outline briefly the important features of existing management systems . |
| 7 | Education in schools , colleges and youth projects to try and prevent young people from sniffing may help to reduce casualties . |
| 8 | They are designed not only to keep out black people but to try and intimidate black workers already in Britain and make it harder for them to claim their basic human rights . |
| 9 | Thank you yes , I mean our purpose is not here to try and judge competing bids for the new settlement , but to try to come to if we can , objective appraisal of if we are minded to recommend the new settlement , could we in fact come up with a district location . |
| 10 | The police had to revers their patrol car down lane three to try and warn other motorists of the danger . |
| 11 | The idea was to try and get working parties going . |
| 12 | To put the matter into more realistic fashion , the aim was to try and get local councils to understand and accept the implications of national economic policy for local government . |
| 13 | That 's right , so , if you want to try and erm , minimize urban unemployment , right , or it 's futile to try and minimize urban unemployment by erm , er , establishing employment er , job creation schemes in urban areas , because that will increase the probability of getting a job if you 're a migrant . |
| 14 | From the point of view of the environmental impact of mining , if the state was prepared to allow the mining companies to export their profits tax-free , it certainly was not going to try and impose expensive pollution control , environmental and reclamation regulations on their operations . |
| 15 | His response was to try and impose tough discipline and demand greater results at the same time . |
| 16 | We do tend to try and remember odd words , because of their oddity . |
| 17 | There certainly would not be any conferring with the record company to try and establish comparable advances. , |
| 18 | He used to try and learn other players ' licks from the radio and this process was hampered by the fact that he only had one pass in which to do so . |
| 19 | John has always gone out of his way to try and persuade similar sufferers that there may be help for them in alternative therapies . |
| 20 | Staff there have been so impressed by Carina 's bravery that they have decided to try and help other youngsters like her . |
| 21 | However , the limitations of the stick forced governments to try and win voluntary cooperation through concessions and " social contracts " . |
| 22 | The individual who 's gon na be assertive is likely to be open and honest or likely to admit things that are not so good at honest those , but they 're not gon na necessarily apologise for those , they 're gon na treat those as statements of fact and they 're certainly gon na try and involve other people and actually say what do you think this , what are some ways forward er but it does n't mean that they 're gon na be walked all over and they still stand up for the things that they firmly believe in . |
| 23 | I think I would try and get young salespeople |
| 24 | I hear what you say , and I hesitate to make any further comment on that , given the current climate , but let's set about just examining the shape of the difficulty at the moment , and see what we can as it were immediately deal with ourselves , and what we can try and persuade other people to help us to know . |
| 25 | Newspapers , journalists do n't just work office hours , I know they 'd like to but they , they I do n't let them but also a tremendous problem that they that that that you are always tied up in meetings and things during the day , you know , so make sure , try and develop personal contacts so you 've got a decent personal contact when you do n't mind giving your home number to someone . |
| 26 | Try and remember Boney M |
| 27 | Too many British rap tracks try and copy American stuff , but our sound has evolved through time and we keep branching into different styles . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Possibly , but try and avoid unfortunate words , old chap . |
| 29 | Whatever alright , so try and build early start . |
| 30 | Of course , and if you go back to the answer Beana was giving , even within a country if you try if we try and solve other people 's problems , one is very likely , if not always , to end up with those sorts of difficulties . |