Example sentences of "tries [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cutting back and forward furiously , Royston tries to include the complex relationship between Ruth 's father and his ageing ‘ boy ’ , Tim ( Ilarrio Bisi-Pedro ) ; as well as a portrait of Gumede , a freedom fighter on the verge of lunacy — excellently played by Osei Bentil ; and an analysis of a South African police Colonel who is affably stark mad . |
| 2 | A RARE movie — the mainly horrible How The West Was Won is another — that tries to include the whole arc of the West in its plot , expending its first hours on the virgin land as Kevin Costner communes with nature and Indians , but the finale has to admit the good days are gone , as demonstrated by the coming of the brutish cavalry intent on making the Sioux the first victims of the expansionist whites . |
| 3 | A similar description can be given to various parts of A Month in the Country , such as the scène d'action where the entire cast tries to find the lost key , the exquisite pas d'action of Vera and the Tutor , and Kolia 's excited variation playing with a ball . |
| 4 | The BM tries to find the best settings of all its switches , subject to any restrictions placed on any in V. What counts as ’ best ’ depends on the values of its weights . |
| 5 | This is a typical problem that would come into one of our advice centres where a consumer has bought something , f failed to get any satisfaction from the shop and then has gone to the advice centre to er has found and tries to find the nearest Citizen 's Advice Bureau or Advice Centre to try to get advice . |
| 6 | In contrast with Accommodation Theory this approach tries to relate the linguistic behaviour not just of two interacting individuals relative to each other , but of individuals with respect to the communities in which they find themselves . |
| 7 | Teachers appear to be more willing to support the development of a common core curriculum ( Venning , 1979 ; Wicksteed & Hill , 1979 ) : a change that is mirrored by opinions in the ‘ Week by Week ’ column of Education ( 2 Nov. 1979 : 11 Jan. 1980 ) which tries to reflect the current climate . |
| 8 | David Hunt , the Minister for Local Government , will be vulnerable to an angry reaction when he tries to answer the expected protest from the Tory grass-roots — and Tory councillors in particular . |
| 9 | The best part of Nineteen Eighty-Four , he told Orwell in his letter of July 1949 , announcing his visit , was ‘ the delicious conversation in the pub when Winston tries to pump the old man for memories of pre-revolutionary days ’ , and one might easily have guessed that Waugh would think that episode the best . |
| 10 | There is one particularly hilarious moment when three people meet in an alley and one tries to sell the other two a cervical smear in a bottle allegedly from the great Madonna herself . |
| 11 | If flexibility is insufficient and the golfer tries to reach the parallel position with the club at the top of the backswing , the body will compensate either by folding the right foot onto its side , which can lead to the collapse of the same knee , or falling into a reverse pivot . |
| 12 | Child psychiatrist Dr John Pearce , author of a number of books about the role of parents , including the recently published Bad Behaviour , is one expert who tries to tread the middle ground . |
| 13 | I shall also describe some of the remarkable things that seem to happen when one tries to combine the two theories . |
| 14 | Central to problem-solving is a general approach in which the therapist tries to help the patient draw on his own resources to overcome his problems . |
| 15 | The wildest white pianist of the rock ‘ n ’ roll era is now 54 , and his early history is celebrated in a new film in which Dennis Quaid tries to play the younger Jerry Lee . |
| 16 | He then tries to persuade the other person to adopt specific solutions for action . |
| 17 | I agree the West must not support such despots by arming them to the teeth , but one thing the war did show was that if any other would-be adventurist in the Middle East tries to do the same as Saddam , he knows what to expect . . |
| 18 | As JFK was white America 's attempt to come to terms with its violent history so Malcolm X tries to do the same for a black martyr . |
| 19 | Her inspiration also comes from abroad : having spent a month travelling all over Morocco , Ingrid tries to incorporate the dramatic colour combinations and designs used by Arab weavers . |
| 20 | Dirkin tries to climb the slippery mound of garbage , and I grab the waistband of his trousers . |
| 21 | While some of the same satirical zest is evident in The Bed Sitting Room ( 1969 ) , Lester 's chronicle of a post-holocaust world where a stunned Ralph Richardson imagines he is turning into a bedsitter and a doctor tries to keep the old traditions alive by having someone read the BBC News , and the film shows evidence of a superabundant imagination , the narrative is too unfocused for the satirical barbs to hit home , and the result is often tedious to watch . |
| 22 | So the president tries to encapsulate the national interest to embody the common good and he puts forward policies , not in any spirit of er personal or partisan advantage , but simply for the good of the nation . |
| 23 | In taking this positive stance , it is important that the counsellor tries to emphasize the personal strengths that are available to combat the problem , and not the weaknesses which led to the problem in the first place . |
| 24 | Dancing rebel Paul Mercurio adds a little Spanish sex to his stride , takes on the ballroom bosses and falls for frump turned dancehall diva Tara Morice , while the relentlessly zippy direction tries to match the hypermanic bump and hustle . |
| 25 | If one tries to understand the British Constitution simply by reference to case law and statute , one obtains a totally false impression . |
| 26 | A paradox confronts anyone who tries to understand the perplexing and persistent phenomena of ‘ race ’ and racism in Europe today . |
| 27 | Just as he spoilt the old humanity , he now tries to spoil the new one . |
| 28 | When one tries to analyse the real reasons for the respect which French cookery has so long exacted from the rest of the world , the French genius for presentation must be counted as a very relevant point , and its humble beginnings can be seen on the market stalls , i the small town charcutiers ' and pâtissiers ' shops , in the modest little restaurants where even if the cooking is not particularly distinguished , the most ordinary of little dishes will be brought to your table with respect , properly arranged on a serving dish , the vegetables separately served , the object of arousing your appetite will be achieved and the proprietors of the establishment will have made the most of their limited resources . |
| 29 | From this office a staff of 750 tries to control the 40,200 branches of Russia 's Savings Bank , or Sberbank . |
| 30 | Tired travellers could be in for a treat as InterCity tries to bury the unhappy image of the infamous ‘ BR cuppa ’ . |