Example sentences of "have tried [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some councils have tried to tackle this difficulty through a policy of permitting only those new developments that will serve local needs . |
| 2 | Many people , including Dr Palcic and Dr Lam , have tried to use this property to detect lung cancer by injecting photosensitive drugs into a patient and shining UV down the bronchoscope in the hope that the drug-rich tumours will shine back . |
| 3 | I have tried to like these wines , but so often I have been disappointed . |
| 4 | ‘ They have tried to lead normal lives since the girls disappeared , but they 've been under great stress and anxiety . ’ |
| 5 | I have tried buying second-hand machines at auction with some mixed success . |
| 6 | Engineers have tried to mechanise other forms of fishing — for tuna and bonito — without much success as yet . |
| 7 | Successive presidents have tried to reverse this trend , without success . |
| 8 | I have tried to confine diplomatic narrative to major episodes to which diplomacy was central . |
| 9 | Although there have been philosophers — Leibniz is an obvious example — who have tried to reconcile this view with the idea of a pluralist ontology , it is clear that if conjoined with the principle of independence the doctrine of the internality of relations provides a powerful support for the monist thesis . |
| 10 | In this chapter we have tried to give some idea of the impact of the Conservatives ' economic and social policies upon those crimes which do not fit into their own view of criminality . |
| 11 | I have tried to do that year in , year out because I believe that in environmental terms — if in no others — keeping people , their sheep and their cattle in the hillsides is essential if the hillsides are to be kept as they should be . |
| 12 | In response to the failure of a number of attempts to provide foundations for certain knowledge of empirical facts , many epistemologists have tried to defend various forms of fallibilism . |
| 13 | From our earlier discussion it is evident that opinion is divided amongst those who have tried to evaluate national programmes . |
| 14 | However , I do see the dynamics of the city as different and have tried to take some account of them in this study . |
| 15 | However , I have tried to display some broad-mindedness when it comes to the subject of witchcraft . |
| 16 | Although chemists have tried to duplicate essential oils in the laboratory , they are not the same . |
| 17 | ‘ We have tried to initiate such action , you may be sure . |
| 18 | Systems such as HARPY have tried to alleviate these problems by relying heavily on the properties of finite state grammars , applying all higher level knowledge constraints simultaneously through pre-compiled knowledge networks , and delaying decisions about the correct acoustic-phonetic interpretation until the end of the utterance . |
| 19 | A number of authors have tried to produce statistical models for numerically evaluating accessibility . |
| 20 | Other feminists , like Mitchell ( 1974 ) and Coward ( e.g. Coward and Ellis 1977 ) , have tried to tie Lacanian psychoanalysis to social relations , by interpreting it as a descriptive account of how discourses of femininity and masculinity are reproduced , through language , in our conscious and unconscious subjectivities . |
| 21 | We have tried to present both sides of the hunting and shooting debate , and will be publishing the results of last month 's field sports questionnaire as soon as they are analysed . |
| 22 | I have tried to avoid this danger by responding with words such as : |
| 23 | Executive elites have tried to exempt certain policy zones from judicial oversight , or have set up specialized tribunals , committees , and boards , staffed by experts who employ inquisitorial rather than adversarial methods of establishing the truth . |
| 24 | May I , through your august columns , apologise to all those climbers who have tried to locate MOT-While-U-Wait-Garage Crag , Selside , Cumbria , credited as my discovery in a Lakes Report . |
| 25 | For instance , there have been occasions when I have tried to run bad ball and you just do not get away with that against good opposition . |
| 26 | We have tried to obtain glassfibre moulds in the past , have not succeeded and would be grateful if you could advise us on any way that is known to you of building such a craft . |
| 27 | For four decades , countries with nuclear weapons have tried to keep weapon-grade material safe from terrorists and foreign powers . |
| 28 | Officials say that they have tried to keep any disturbance to a minimum by limiting the closures to Sundays only . |
| 29 | Erm , disability and mental health has a specific contingency of fifty thousand , and again this is addressing the point that we have tried to reduce expensive out-county placement , erm , successfully . |
| 30 | TDC 's managers have tried to establish good relations with universities so that they hear about promising developments in time to support them with cash . |