Example sentences of "try [verb] a way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owen , equally alarmed , was content to let it rest like that while he tried to see a way through the likely complications . |
| 2 | Finally , Ghatak tried to find a way between popular melodrama and the avant-garde . |
| 3 | Baldi , who had been watching the show , now tried to find a way around the Jaguar for himself . |
| 4 | She tried to find a way to explain without hurting him too much . |
| 5 | This was a reward for persistence , as the United strike force tried to find a way through . |
| 6 | If sufficient evidence is not available , progress must be reviewed to try to find a way forward . |
| 7 | Union leaders are meeting management tomorrow to try to find a way of softening the blow . |
| 8 | Soon , he lost track of time and it was after what he judged to be many days , he was heartened to hear , occasionally , the far-off sound of metal on rock as his friends tried to clear a way through to him . |
| 9 | The world has changed since the long , low silver engineering prototype was unveiled at the 1988 British Motor Show and Jaguar 's then chief executive , Sir John Egan , decided that they should try to find a way to build it , as the ultimate supercar to outdo Ferrari and Porsche . |
| 10 | At the preparatory stage in drafting legislation civil servants will try to find a way of indicating Parliament 's intentions as to the sort of considerations of policy or fact that are to be treated as properly relevant to the decision , and the procedural requirements to be observed , but without tying the Minister 's hands too tightly in situations which can not be foreseen . |
| 11 | We can not lower the rate of VAT under Community rules , but we can try to find a way to assist the industry . |
| 12 | ‘ Ken was such a brilliant bloke that if he had an idea of how to deliver a line , he 'd try to find a way to block it . |
| 13 | The second ( which I prefer ) is to say that , difficult though the task is , one must try to find a way of writing rules that express what native speakers naturally tend to do in placing stress ( while acknowledging that there will always be a substantial residue of cases which appear to follow no regular rules ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Tomorrow we 'll try to sort a way out of this whole mess . ’ |
| 15 | In what follows we shall try to suggest a way of combining theory and experience , which draws on work by Imré Lakatos , Roy Bhaskar , and others but can be read as it stands . |
| 16 | Empowerment , which has its roots in the US , has taken on new significance recently as American corporations try to find a way to compete more effectively with the Japanese . |
| 17 | Then I try to find a way of expressing the idea and there is n't one . |
| 18 | In so far as they do , they are troubled : they try to find a way for women to be represented in a religion where the Godhead is conceived in male terms , and a way indeed to be able to associate themselves with a male God or Christ . |
| 19 | She tries to find a way through and because she 's patient and understanding she gets there . |
| 20 | ‘ If physicists had tried to discover a way to release nuclear energy before 1939 , they would have worked on anything else rather than the field which finally led to the discovery of fission , namely radiochemistry . |
| 21 | With that kind of price tag , it is not surprising that a long string of American entrepreneurs — including even Thomas Jefferson — have tried to find a way to cultivate various Morchella species . |
| 22 | The shuttle had no on-board weaponry : not a single missile , not even a laser with which they might have tried to cut a way in . |
| 23 | Now Dr Mathews , a computer musician from Stanford University in California , is trying to find a way of getting people to take charge of music 's humanity . |
| 24 | If we enter this relationship to work with you … trying to find a way to bring back … the kind of government that you want then we have to establish … basic rules of order . |
| 25 | Zborowski had been trying to find a way of flattering the old man ever since the party arrived in Nice . |
| 26 | He 's casting around trying to find a way of presenting himself that 's different from his past life . |
| 27 | I had for a long time being trying to find a way of showing the heat-pain argument to be invalid , because I could not accept the conclusion , that heat exists only as a sensation in the mind . |
| 28 | Searching consists of trying to find a way to change the present state of affairs into some desired state . |
| 29 | ’ You can stop thinking , if that means trying to find a way to steal the phetam and sell it somewhere else . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's a new situation that we have got to handle and , somehow , we have got to find a way of breaking out of this low growth , and trying to find a way of getting our economy going again . |