Example sentences of "tries [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hurd tries to heal split with China over Hong Kong |
| 2 | He tries to gather information about a certain underground political organisation . ’ |
| 3 | A similar special course , known as the ‘ Summer School ’ , runs for life sentence prisoners and also tries to stimulate interest and enjoyment in equal measure . |
| 4 | He struggles , turning round as he sinks deeper , chunks and edges of ice rearing into the air and making little puffs and fountains of snow as he tries to find purchase and push himself out . |
| 5 | When Pip meets Miss Havisham and Estella he is no longer happy with himself or the way in which he lives and becomes very self-critical , he then tries to find contentment with money and becoming a gentleman but this fails . |
| 6 | In the former method the manager makes his own judgement on an employee 's performance and tries to obtain agreement on this assessment , focussing on the past rather than the future . |
| 7 | In relays , each team tries to drink water in identical jugs from a spoon , until at the end they can lift up the jugs to drink . |
| 8 | But all the time he tries to regain control and meet the love of his life , Susan ’ . |
| 9 | But the judge ordered a three-week postponement while the plant 's owner , the Swiss flavouring and fragrance firm , Givaudan , tries to reach settlement with the 127 representatives of local citizens and organisations who flooded the court asking for compensation . |
| 10 | A simple but effective example of its very artificiality occurs in Marnie ( 1964 ) when , towards the end , Marnie ( Tippi Hedren ) tries to steal money from the Rutland and Co. safe ; her simultaneous attraction and repulsion is shown by rapid zooms in and out , brief and repeated . |
| 11 | But they have realised that there may be no safe national niches in the looming common European capital market , so each sooner rather than later tries to enhance turnover by introducing euro or international contracts . |
| 12 | He tries to buy wood which has a certificate to say it comes from sustainable forests . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's no team in the Leagues that tries to play football more than us . |
| 14 | The book tries to challenge psychology 's concept of the subject , both by studying unconscious subjectivity , and by constructing Foucauldian genealogies of discourses of the subject . |
| 15 | He let me into one of his secrets when he told me that he tries to avoid cream sauces and prefers to use stock and wine reductions . |
| 16 | H. The Government tries to avoid unemployment . |
| 17 | In the following extract we see that an equally offensive act is one in which a soft teacher tries to assert authority , but when challenged gives in . |
| 18 | Whether one tries to illustrate subsidiarity by an upturned pyramid or a spiked helmet is irrelevant : Sir Christopher 's definition makes it clear that , far from being a guarantee for decentralisation , ‘ subsidiarity ’ is a blank cheque for more and more power to be transferred to Community level , just as the principle 's enshrinement in the German constitution has led to massive centralisation of power and expenditure in that country . |
| 19 | DUN & BRADSTREET TRIES TO REASSURE MAINFRAME CUSTOMERS AS IT MOULDS A NEW COMPANY |
| 20 | D&B TRIES TO REASSURE MAINFRAME CUSTOMERS AS IT MOULDS A NEW COMPANY |
| 21 | In his more positive ethical viewpoint Butler tries to give sense to the old opinion that one should live according to nature . |
| 22 | Now you can see that if a scientist of this kind tries to study man he is in difficulty . |
| 23 | There is usually at least one person who seems extra sensitive to how other members are feeling and who tries to reduce conflict . |
| 24 | Alan Hewitt of NECA tries to reduce harm Ecstasy users do to themselves , and to offer alternatives to drug use , but he recognises the problems . |
| 25 | Farm production is still increasing faster than demand , and farms will feel the squeeze as the EC tries to match supply and demand . |
| 26 | A true Hindu , according to Gandhi , is one ‘ who believes in God , immortality of the soul , transmigration , the law of Karma and Moksha , and who tries to practise Truth and Ahimsa in daily life … ’ |
| 27 | IRA tries to shift blame on to police for bomb devastation |
| 28 | But even the most mercenary of foreign firms grows a little queasier about trading with a regime which shoots dead its citizens , and then tries to score popularity points by offering convict labour to foreign factories ; and even the most unreconstructed optimist can see that the resurgence of hard-line Marxists in the Peking power structure is likely to militate against further free-market reforms . |
| 29 | When Philip tries to unravel truth from fiction , the task proves too much for him . |
| 30 | A group in the chaotic stage tries to overcome uncertainty and ambiguity by flinging itself headlong into the task in hand without giving enough , if any , attention to the process . |