Example sentences of "to try [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are allowed to try to pump breath into the patient through a handkerchief , if that helps . |
| 2 | What we must do — until today there has been a broad measure of agreement on this — is to try to focus attention on the Bill 's aims and motivations . |
| 3 | It was futile to try to apply logic from the outside here . |
| 4 | A common mistake is to try to use lift on the way back instead of gliding on through it at a sensible speed . |
| 5 | Moulton was directed to try to stem unrest in the remainder of the fleet , and also did his best to rally support for Parliament among shipowners and seafarers in London . |
| 6 | It was left to the Federal Government through the 1976 Health Manpower Ball , to try to force compliance on the schools by making federal capitation grants conditional on the schools increasing the proportion of primary care graduates to 50 per cent by 1980 . |
| 7 | If you really can not find the space anywhere else in the home you will have to try to squeeze space in the kitchen ( or go to a launderette ) . |
| 8 | External factors such as slowness by the contractor may be causing programme delay and the manager must have the ability to involve himself at senior level within the organisations causing delay , in order to try to influence change in the progress of the work . |
| 9 | Zeno and Pascoe faced each other , Pascoe circling to try to get advantage from the light . |
| 10 | The girl , of Pitsea , Essex , has spent 14 hours a day with two specially trained policewomen and a counsellor to try to get information on the rapist . |
| 11 | Major Burrows suffered a great deal with asthma and had taken leave from the corps for a year to try to get control of the symptoms which were becoming chronic . |
| 12 | Under the European Community Wild Birds Directive SPA designation requires the Government to guarantee the area 's future protection and to try to prevent damage to the habitats within it . |
| 13 | Her only way of coping with her over-identification with my situation was to try to reassert control over the child I used to be and prevent the cycle repeating itself . |
| 14 | In order to try to make sense of the potential multitude of factors that might be considered in valuing shares we need a theoretical framework which , although it may be ( and is ) criticized , will give the discussion and analysis a starting point . |
| 15 | If we force an associative adjective into predicative position , a user of English has to try to make sense of the result within a framework of interpretation , which already requires that the adjective should be taken as ascriptive . |
| 16 | We used carbomer primarily as a vehicle for the bismuth to try to achieve adherence to the surface mucosa with optimal topical application of the bismuth . |