Example sentences of "have tried [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeff Dujon has tried to take evasive action from a ball that has climbed from just short of a length , but has gloved it . |
| 2 | Silver has tried to ally these fears — |
| 3 | This argument is particularly relevant to Britain where the government has tried to foster wider share ownership by selling off formerly nationalised industries . |
| 4 | A bogus policeman has tried to abduct two children and to extort an on-the-spot fine from a driver . |
| 5 | Dollimore perceives that critical opinion has tried to resolve this issue by tending to read the play as either vindicating Faustus or the morality structure . |
| 6 | Miroslav Hroch has tried to answer this question for contemporary central and eastern Europe by comparison with 19th-century small-nation linguistic nationalism . |
| 7 | Of our three countries , Kenya stands out as the only one which has tried to manage economic development and contain inflation by selective price controls on individual items . |
| 8 | For the last couple of times , Neil Kinnock has tried to look working class and dropped his aitches , and this year Paddy Ashdown came out in favour of a well-hung parliament and dropped his trousers . |
| 9 | The ‘ fat oyster in the American story ’ probably refers to the story of a man struggling with a very large oyster in a stew , to whom the waiter says , ‘ Well , sir , you are the fourth man who has tried to swallow that oyster . ’ |
| 10 | Now let me cut through all that science , that er , Councillor Parker has has tried to make this issue . |
| 11 | He has tried to work similar magic at the unwieldy Energy Department . |
| 12 | The museum houses an informative display of stones , with some of the engraved patterns picked out in colour by the American artist Marianna Lines , who has tried to achieve authentic hues by using natural pigment dyes . |
| 13 | But in any case , the best proof of the pudding is in the eating — by which I mean that any one who has tried to help young poets over the years , whether in Britain or America , knows that Ford 's and the imagists ' precepts about diction are what most of them most need to learn — no novelty , after all , since they can learn the same lessons from the preface to Lyrical Ballads , if they choose to . |
| 14 | The publisher has formed a limited liability company to protect himself from such contingencies but nevertheless has tried to pass this liability to the private individual . |
| 15 | Sometimes the Church has tried to exercise proprietary rights over the Holy Spirit , confining him to its basis of faith , its ministerial orders , its sacraments . |
| 16 | The company has tried to cut mild steel 12 mm thick , but the finish was very rough . |
| 17 | She 'd tried to get another position in hotel work , but nothing suitable been available . |
| 18 | Once or twice he 'd — well he 'd tried to make some sort of advances to her . |
| 19 | They may have tried to forget that period in their lives without coming to terms with some of the pain and guilt related to it . |
| 20 | The positivists seem to have tried to avoid this problem by , once again , adopting the ‘ scientific ’ stance . |
| 21 | erm so species are , in a sense , real things out there , they 're not an artefact of taxonomists who 've tried to force some classification onto organisms which do n't really have that nature . |
| 22 | We 've tried to love both dogs equally , and simply separate them for a cooling-off period after a fight , rather than telling them off in any way . |
| 23 | Since erm sexually reproducing organisms are and I 've tried to keep technical jargon in this course to a minimum , but one term we 'll have to learn is diploid , you ca n't do without it . |
| 24 | I 've tried to keep some level of consideration for everybody through this whole thing . |
| 25 | I 've tried to keep this review from trespassing too far into Mills & Boon territory , but it must be obvious to all and sundry that I love the Legend to bits . |
| 26 | She had tried to explain this feeling to Gay and Felicity , when they had come out of the Jade Cockatoo on their last night together ; but she had known all the time that it was n't a thing that could be explained . |
| 27 | From 1976 through to the introduction of the community charge in 1990 , governments had tried to curb local spending by reducing central government support . |
| 28 | Lawyers claimed they had tried to suppress official papers showing the extent of the arms selling operation . |
| 29 | On the surface the man seemed to be part of the backbone of the community , but she had only to remember the marked reluctance shown by those of his employees she had tried to interview that afternoon to realise that all was n't as it seemed . |
| 30 | She turned weakness into strength , for if she had tried to dismiss those accusations it would have made everything else she said suspect . |