Example sentences of "we try [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a small independent we try to appreciate the client 's requirements . ’ |
| 2 | We try to tackle the problem at all ends — to prevent young people ending up on the streets , to provide a roof over their heads , and to search for long-term solutions . |
| 3 | Let us first ( so the reasoning goes ) consider the immediate impact of mother and child on one another before we try to stipulate the relationship between infant experience and adult behaviour . |
| 4 | We try to give the publisher new paper , but the drafts of these chapters were all done on the backs of once-used sheets . |
| 5 | If we try to analyse the conception of possession , we find two elements . |
| 6 | Now the question is , if this is a set-up , we 're going to get hit when we try to take the lorry they 're transferring the shit to . |
| 7 | One of the partners at the firm told me ‘ We try to persuade the software houses we represent over here that it is important to keep users using the latest version of the software , but our upgrade policy has to be dictated by what the vendor will agree to . ’ |
| 8 | Once we try to lift the imagination away from the idea of God as a person ( another unfortunate implication of the old man on a cloud motif ) into another form of personality , we encounter a number of interesting arguments . |
| 9 | ‘ We try to save the fish . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ If we try to re-cross the desert without water and provisions for the st'lyan , we 'll end up walking . ’ |
| 11 | He was told : ‘ We try to keep the panelling for three years , to get it thoroughly seasoned while other wood is dried artificially if required before it has time to get seasoned … we use chiefly mahogany , oak and walnut , a vast amount of teak — one of the most useful woods in railway construction — sycamore ; yellow deal for partitions , roofs and floors ; elm we find of very little use , but we are now very partial to Padouk wood [ from South Australia ] , though the workmen do n't like it much on account of its toughness ’ . |
| 12 | It has been a special joy in recent times to see the growth in the church of a truly global mission concern , and we look to your continued support as we try to make the challenge of Mission in its fullest sense the emphasis at this year 's Assembly , and beyond . |
| 13 | With a choice we work perceptually on the alternatives to see if we can make one so attractive that it attracts us to ignore the others ; or we try to make the alternatives so unattractive that we can dismiss them one by one . |
| 14 | It is just possible that this is exactly the situation that we face when , as individuals , we experience these stages , and it may certainly be the situation that , as psychoanalysts , we encounter when we try to reconstruct the phases of ego- and superego-development from the sole evidence of the clinical analysis of individuals ( For instance , I strongly suspect that this fact has seriously misled the Kleinian school in its theory of developmental stages and is still obscuring much of the psychological structure of the psychoses , and perhaps the neuroses too . ) |
| 15 | If we try to identify the media pressed into the service of God 's revelation of himself in the Bible , there is an astonishing variety . |
| 16 | If we succeed then we try to infer the behaviour of the whole from the known behaviour of the parts . |
| 17 | Members might like to note that the first half hour is usually a chance to chat ; we try to get the talks under way by eight o'clock . |
| 18 | We try to match the dog with the owner . |
| 19 | We try to reduce the distance between ourselves and our boss by using first-person-plural pronouns , talking of what ‘ we ’ ( i.e. the boss and I ) will do in the future — ‘ We could always write to head office , and ask them to let us have more data . |