Example sentences of "we try [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Posing as tax-payers engaged in writing , film-making or oddball societies , we tried to enlist the honourable members in activities and causes close to their hearts . |
| 2 | We tried to explain the national concern over heart disease , and the medical advice to avoid excess salt . |
| 3 | I was er Chairman of Public Health and various chim , I was Chairman of the Road Safety , which I was very interested in I was very road safety conscious and we each were given a job which we tried to do the best we could with and then we well , whatever we were asked to do we began to make a good town , you know ? |
| 4 | We tried to identify the main features of current best practice in English by describing classrooms where , individually and collaboratively , pupils are seen : |
| 5 | ‘ We tried to make the best of it but it was so bad that was impossible , ’ said Brian . |
| 6 | But one night we tried to get the whole entire floor out on the landing . |
| 7 | It I think forty five they started negotiating forty five forty to forty seven and er when we tried to alter the national agreement or change it in our minds for the better you always had the solid block of these wee fellows up and down the country sticking by the national agreement because they got such a good deal out of it it brought their standards right up to the the best that was going . |
| 8 | [ Macbeth , III.ii.46 ] If asked to paraphrase this , do we try to expound the hidden , metaphorical meanings , or the surface literal meanings ? |
| 9 | But if we try to use the same two adjectives with the same two nouns in a predicative construction we shall find that the result is ungrammatical : ( 49 ) that rival was possible those two sailors are occasional As in other instances , it is not enough merely to record that possible , occasional and certain other adjectives are ungrammatical in predicative position when constructed with certain nouns . |
| 10 | Too often in communication we try to teach the other person our language and concepts and then communicate in this language . |
| 11 | This may seem harmless enough , but problems arise once we try to describe the latter kind of fact . |
| 12 | Now the plot actual and fitted , right , so we try to explain the actual block of textile consumption as the blue line and to do that we are using our model with those fixed estimates , the incoming elasticity and the price elasticity . |
| 13 | My point is that before we try to improve the public image of chemists and chemistry , should n't we take steps to ensure that the public know which profession we are talking about ? |
| 14 | Those of us who want to champion Pound do him no service at all when we try to excuse the inexcusable . |
| 15 | In Physics , we try to unravel the fascinating problems and patterns set by Mother Nature , then use this knowledge for the benefit of all . |
| 16 | We try to determine the bodily functions that have become disjointed … the patient should have a good sleep , eat properly and the bowels must move more regularly . |
| 17 | Chance and catastrophe are unsatisfying and inadequate as explanations when we try to understand the numerous and exquisite examples of correlations between the characters of organisms and their physical and social environments . |
| 18 | If we try to relate the stratigraphical column , in all its fantastic detail , to these general theories , we will inevitably soon bog down in a welter of information . |
| 19 | In a sense and a I 'm not sure if it 's only in a sense , that , that when we talk now of say are n't we trying to approach the same ? |