Example sentences of "to try [verb] a [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 | 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 ! |
| 4 | The word ended in a wail , and Angelina ran to her to try to forestall a further attack of hysteria . |
| 5 | A number of experiments have been set up to try to establish a satisfactory method of appraisal . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He agreed to go to Rome himself to try to obtain an acceptable solution . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The patient should be encouraged to try to find a suitable explanation first , before the therapist considers providing one of his own . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We think it 's time to try to create a new showcase for young galleries . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Essex County Council is currently carrying out a feasibility study to try to pinpoint a permanent arts complex for the northern part of the county . |
| 17 | To try to lead a normal life did n't work at all . |
| 18 | In the centre of Cardigan an earth mover used to try to reach a trapped mother and child overturned , and the occupiers eventually scrambled to safety . |
| 19 | This means more than booking the physiotherapist to come and carry out postural drainage on a person with a chest infection , or ‘ getting the psychotherapist in ’ to try to help a distressed client . |
| 20 | We have to try to imagine a complex future in which different groups of the elderly will have different experiences from those of the present and from one another . |
| 21 | Trying out new materials depends on what the artist wants to do and how the medium can be used to advantage ; at the same time it would be foolish to try to fit a new tool exactly into your pattern of work and thus limit it . |
| 22 | ‘ As travel becomes more international , chains are moving across country lines to try to win a loyal customer base , ’ she said . |
| 23 | JOHN Major and EC Commission President Jacques Delors moved swiftly today to try to avert a disastrous trade war between Europe and the United States . |
| 24 | While the English fleet lay off Lisbon Moulton was sent ashore to try to negotiate a diplomatic settlement with the king . |
| 25 | The Prime Minister is now borrowing billions to try to finance a pre-election tax cut , so will he tell us exactly which other taxes he would raise to pay for the bribe ? |
| 26 | Without the right to asylum , Germany thus becomes much like the other members of the European Community , whose ministers met on June 1st to try to devise a common system for dealing with refugees . |
| 27 | But is it the case that western women , living today in the United States , let alone in secular modern Europe , live in societies so dominated by the Christian myth , so ready to point to the place of women within the biblical tradition , that the best that women can do is to try to give a better reading of that past ? |
| 28 | We only want to try to run a straight line through a cloud of data points if the relationship looks linear . |
| 29 | For example , to try to understand a given choice another makes , one must face in imagination the lack of choices which may confront and deny him . |
| 30 | Therefore , will he ensure that the district health authority does not break up that team in order to move it to Telford to try to keep an under-used district general hospital busy ? |