Example sentences of "to try [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We were asked to try to arrange an inter-club table show with Hulton Aquarist Society .
2 By this time I was becoming a little dissatisfied with the imprinting set-up that had become the stock in trade of my lab over the past few years , and I planned to try using an alternative form of learning in the chick .
3 Einstein , therefore , set to work to try to demolish the accepted version of quantum mechanics .
4 If you were to try to see a top specimen of every breed at Crufts you would have to attend on all four days and walk a good couple of miles !
5 He needs to try to see the subtler reasons for this mood .
6 The word ended in a wail , and Angelina ran to her to try to forestall a further attack of hysteria .
7 Well , we 're going to try to provide the first steps towards uniformity .
8 A number of experiments have been set up to try to establish a satisfactory method of appraisal .
9 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 .
10 And Evans said : ‘ I will be studying video tape of the alleged incident to try to establish the full facts .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Both governments agreed to try to restart the political talks on Northern Ireland early in 1993 .
15 It is as stupid for a government to try to whip and cajole an entrenched profession into changing as it is to try to pull a fed-up donkey along the road by its ears .
16 However , I was going to try to pull the right strings .
17 The attempt to revive Monaghan Day was a gesture as weak as a couple who marry in order to try to retrieve a lost relationship , the mind having changed the hard actual fact into what was comfortable to feel .
18 He agreed to go to Rome himself to try to obtain an acceptable solution .
19 This agreement between the governments in London and Dublin was an attempt to promote co-operation between them and to try to find a joint approach to at least some of the problems of Northern Ireland .
20 The patient should be encouraged to try to find a suitable explanation first , before the therapist considers providing one of his own .
21 My personal view is that one can be more perceptive in a project where one finds the whole field fascinating , but it is vitally important to try to find a neutral position .
22 Thus , it seems that it is misguided even to try to find a single deficit theory of Broca 's aphasia , because Broca 's aphasia is a clinical syndrome , not a theoretical syndrome .
23 Police have mounted a series of operations to try to catch the rustling gangs , some of whom are thought to travel from various parts of the country .
24 His next tack was to try to catch the ABS system out .
25 and that 's it do n't forget about our competition … to try to pick the new manager here at the Manor ground … you know Anne there has been some thoughts they 'd like to see a women in this chair … what do you reckon
26 and that 's it do n't forget about our competition … to try to pick the new manager here at the Manor ground … you know Anne there has been some thoughts they 'd like to see a women in this chair … what do you reckon
27 And you know if we were able to commit ourselves to two public , two meetings , three meetings of some sort in a year where we 're actually gon na do something and present some sort of front Par part of presenting some sort of front is to try to sell a few bits of pieces if we 're prepared to accept that we 're going to lose money .
28 A new initiative was launched to address the problem , to try to reverse the inverse care law .
29 We think it 's time to try to create a new showcase for young galleries . ’
30 Snow-making machines will be blowing out foam-based snow to try to create an early Yuletide atmosphere while trying to tempt shoppers into their stores .
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