Example sentences of "[noun sg] have tried [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since that occasion my correspondent has tried to find the embrasure or refuge that the old man was standing in , without success . |
| 2 | The park has tried to repair the damage by cutting prices at the gates and in the hotels but visitors still complain it 's too expensive . |
| 3 | The user has tried to access the details of a module which is not known to LIFESPAN . |
| 4 | ‘ The Chancellor has tried to walk the knife edge . |
| 5 | The council has tried to collect the arrears by issuing final notices and summonses , and now holds distress warrants relating to the majority of accounts . |
| 6 | ‘ The DUKW had tried to reach the vessel but could not get anywhere because of the nature of the craft . |
| 7 | The SSD 's head of quality assurance Hugh Dunnachie said the inspection team has tried to work the whole process through with schools . |
| 8 | This article has tried to give the reader an insight into starting with large cichlids regarding fish and their selection . |
| 9 | Workmen on the site had tried to catch the under-nourished dog , but had n't managed to get anywhere near her — they all thought that she must have been very badly abused because she was so terrified of people . |
| 10 | Until New Scientist asked the NRPB to reexamine its assessment of the fire last week , to take account of the polonium , no official body had tried to calculate the effect of its release . |
| 11 | The king had tried to flee the country in June 1791 , and had been ignominiously brought back under guard . |
| 12 | It is one of the paradoxes of contemporary political thinking that at the same time as much conventional theory has tried to restrict the idea of democracy to that of choosing a government from competing elites , it is also widely admitted that the theoretical sovereignty of these democratic governments is not in fact matched by their actual powers over society , particularly in relation to the vast conglomerate firms and multi-national companies on whose policies and decisions the employment and livelihood of so many millions now depend . |
| 13 | When the merchant had tried to open the chest in the temple the feasters had been blasted by lightning and some , in their madness , had torn each other into bloodied pieces . |
| 14 | While the Secretary of State has tried to assure the House about the problems and implications of recognition of Croatia , will he try once more to reassure us about that recognition ? |
| 15 | Other governments have viewed the spontaneous housing settlements as wretched areas , which not only house society 's drop-outs , but are also breeding grounds for crime and radical political activity The Brazilian government has tried to eradicate the squatter settlements for these reasons , which is especially the case in Rio de Janeiro , because of the added factor that it is an international tourist centre and the favelas are so visible on the steep hillsides behind the luxury hotels and beaches . |
| 16 | In the UK , the government has tried to limit the size of the PSBR , or even to run a PSDR , in order to keep monetary growth in check . |
| 17 | As in the Mediterranean region the Soviet Union has tried to ride the tide of hostility expressed by non-aligned nations to military bases in South Asia and the Indian Ocean . |
| 18 | The Thirties Society has tried to counteract the brewers ' failure to understand the potential assets represented by their 20th century buildings , but since so few pubs are listed many cases escape our notice . |
| 19 | In June too , after an attempt to repel the rebels had failed , and the leaders of the royal force , Sir Humphrey Stafford and William Stafford , had been killed at Sevenoaks , the government had tried to placate the Kentishmen by arresting Crowmer and Say and sending them to the Tower , and when Cade 's men entered London in July , those two were among their earliest victims ( 16 , p.192 ) . |
| 20 | Michael Heseltine let his deputy Tim Eggar put the case that the government had tried to encourage the market for domestic coal . |
| 21 | It is not surprising , therefore , that recent Marxist explanations of power in capitalist society have tried to explain the more pluralistic modern forms of representation and policy-making in terms , not of some devious desire by the ruling class and their friends but as a limited freedom for actors and forces opposed to capitalism , which is constrained and limited in the last instance by the economic structure of the capitalist mode of production and its ideological hegemony . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , a second Iraqi ship has tried to breach the U N trade embargo imposed against Iraq : earlier today a British warship , H M S Battleaxe , fired warning shots across the bows of one vessel that failed to stop for a cargo inspection . |
| 23 | His counsel had tried to disprove the footprint evidence as indistinct and he vehemently denied that he had ever used a hiking stick . |
| 24 | The writer had tried to alter the slant of his hand and had changed the shape of the small r . |
| 25 | He argues the company has tried to monopolise the market by convincing customers that its relational database management system is effectively the computer , making it appear that all other functions and tasks the user may want to perform are bound tightly to the database — requirements that can only be met by other Oracle products . |
| 26 | Imagine if the company had tried to use the caption ‘ Six years ’ growth of profits ! ’ |
| 27 | It has certainly been quite often the case , in practice , that spokespersons for the majority have tried to portray the minority who oppose as not really being part of " the people " at all . |
| 28 | The user logged onto LIFESPAN has tried to submit the DC listed . |
| 29 | The party has tried to break the mould before , but delegates are convinced that this time its different . |
| 30 | Her family had tried to stop the marriage , but she would have followed him anywhere in the world . |