Example sentences of "try [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of his harshest condemnations were reserved for those who tried to evade the plain commands of God ( set out in the Old Testament law ) by means of merely human traditions , however venerable . |
| 2 | It is a system where a reasonably educated person would have heard of Homer but never of Kalidas , of Ibsen but rarely of Tagore , of Joan of Arc but not of the Rani of Jhansi ( another woman who took arms to try to drive the British out of her country ) , of Goethe but not of his contemporary the great Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib . |
| 3 | The more sophisticated provincial dealers tried to acquire the new denomination at the end of the year as a means of hoarding . |
| 4 | Surere was already looking sleeker , Huy thought , as he tried to banish the servile feelings which still rose to the surface when he found himself in the company of his former superior . |
| 5 | The Peruvian military reacted with force during the Pamplona invasion in May 1971 , when they tried to evict the tens of thousands who had participated in this huge squatter invasion in Lima , with the result that there were several injuries and one death ( Collier 1975 ) . |
| 6 | TNT let-off CONTRACTORS who tried to demolish the former Brymbo steelworks melting shop with explosives without first obtaining the necessary council permission are not to be prosecuted . |
| 7 | I was told to stay where I was while slowly , slowly with delicate patience , the young son tried to inch the two embedded wheels out of the stuff . |
| 8 | She was a treacherous bitch who tried to kill the young king , but that 's another story . |
| 9 | The outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters said it tried to kill the three Roman Catholic taxi drivers . |
| 10 | Martin Kean was injured as he tried to carry the flaming pan out of his third storey flat in Ainstey House , Norton . |
| 11 | He was surprised to find that the medical officer was not resident at the hospital , ‘ … my wife and I , and a friend ( the wife of a highly-placed London County Council Official ) tried to interview the medical officer at his home ’ . |
| 12 | Einstein , therefore , set to work to try to demolish the accepted version of quantum mechanics . |
| 13 | He needs to try to see the subtler reasons for this mood . |
| 14 | The voters , in other words , had not moved solidly to the right , their position was one of ambivalence ; they had become deeply sceptical about the role of government and yet they still expected government to aid them as they tried to meet the pressing problems of modern life . |
| 15 | The Habsburgs thus tried to isolate the various movements of national autonomy from their peasant base , and the Russian tsar did the same in Poland . |
| 16 | Well , we 're going to try to provide the first steps towards uniformity . |
| 17 | Mazzin tried to impose the same treatment on us . |
| 18 | After appearing on a television programme in Scotland , I was asked by an eminent Professor of Physiology to try to establish the long-term success of my Hip and Thigh Diet slimmers . |
| 19 | And Evans said : ‘ I will be studying video tape of the alleged incident to try to establish the full facts . |
| 20 | It is small wonder that Keynesians stood in perplexed amazement when they tried to relate the new classical theory of unemployment to the unemployment rates which were being experienced in the late 1970s . |
| 21 | Moscow tried to encourage the non-aligned states to commit themselves in this region to the ‘ gradual curtailment of distinct forms of military-political cooperation … the non-creation of new forms of multilateral and bilateral alliances , the non-adoption of military functions by non-military regional organisations ’ . |
| 22 | If Mr. Goldsmith would care to accept the invitation — clearly written in the bottom left-hand corner of our charts — to contact us , I would gladly explain to him in detail how we tackle the very complex task of chart production , and in particular how we go to the most extraordinary lengths to try to meet the highest standards of clarity and accuracy demanded by the wide range of our customers — when flying in UK ( not USA ) airspace . |
| 23 | Rolle has to try to meet the linguistic challenge which faces any mystical writer : to define and point towards the nature of an experience which is in essence ineffable . |
| 24 | Man 's discovery that he himself , like other living creatures , is born and dies must have led him intuitively to try to circumvent the relentless flux of time by seeking to perpetuate his own existence indefinitely . |
| 25 | In addition to regulating the lives of the Christian subjects of the Merovingian kings — and also to circumscribing the activities of the Jews , the one recognized religious minority in the kingdom — the bishops at least tried to monopolize the local centres and objects of devotion , which might have presented a focus of religious power outside their control . |
| 26 | Both governments agreed to try to restart the political talks on Northern Ireland early in 1993 . |
| 27 | ‘ I tried to pull the other dog 's jaws back . |
| 28 | Inzamam-ul-Haq ducked into his first ball and took it around the shoulder , and while a helmet was being fetched , he tried to pull the next and merely splice it up for a return catch to Malcolm , who later disclosed that , being some way short of the top 100 fielders in the land , he could only murmur , ‘ Oh , my Lord , who 's going to take that catch ? ’ |
| 29 | For example , some Health Authorities tried to obstruct the competitive tendering process for ancillary services . |
| 30 | BORIS BECKER spoke here yesterday of how he tried to find the perfect antidote to New York by taking a week 's holiday in East Germany after winning the United States Open last month . |