Example sentences of "to try [coord] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around a quarter of the managers were unemployed , he said , and the parents of the boys would have to try and make up the increase . |
| 2 | Can you imagine , we have to try and make out a picture of that ! |
| 3 | ‘ I trust them to try and sort out the unions , ’ William says . |
| 4 | Well that is a very difficult one for anybody who erm has to try and sort out the ideological , tribal , personal rivalries in Uganda and to answer the question of whether these are going to get in the way of some sort of erm coherent government policy and political stability . |
| 5 | For archaeologists like David Miles the challenge is to try and piece together the sort of person he was . |
| 6 | The knighthood for Colonel David Stirling , founder of the SAS , who helped to try and set up a strike-breaking organisation called GB75 in the 1970s , may prove controversial . |
| 7 | Could I ask you very quickly on that note , do you think the answer is to try and set up a voting mechanism amongst the deferred pensioners , or is the answer that one should actually appoint a professional independent trustee , specifically with the duties of looking after the deferred pensioners in the debates that you have identified often take place ? |
| 8 | to try and set up a scout group |
| 9 | He was a chemist himself , or a physicist , working on similar sorts of problems , and I wrote to him and said was he interested in looking at one of my molecules , and he wrote back and said he was very interested because it was , in fact , as I 'd thought , a rather intriguing next step in our understanding and we got together with the Canadian group in Ottowa to try and set up a programme for observing these particular types of molecule in interstellar space . |
| 10 | to try and switch on the cassette player in the bedroom . |
| 11 | Selling horses is my living , so it 's my job to try and match up the right horse with the right owner . |
| 12 | Well , because we have a very flexible course , a modular course which is made up of units , it 's , it 's possible to almost fit anybody into our course , so in fact she 's met one of our specialists and the analysis had been done of what she 's done before , what she wants to do in the future to try and match up the whole thing ; only she knows exactly what she 's doing . |
| 13 | The SWWA had opened the hydrants at night to try and clear out the system before the town woke up . |
| 14 | I think to try and break down the barriers that some of the West Indian children have against teachers and academic things … |
| 15 | They were always changing them to try and balance up the take I suppose , on each , each leg of the route and there was always was the chief clerk then and him and I got on very well together and he really initiated me into running times . |
| 16 | Robert decided to try and find out a little more about him . |
| 17 | It might be , I think in actual fact during your er , I think it might be a waste of time , but I think it 's probably advisable to try and find out a bit more about this |
| 18 | It is also sensible to try and find out the likelihood of offers being accepted . |
| 19 | I seem to recall I did once look in a dictionary to try and find out the definition of settlement , all it said was something like a place where people settle . |
| 20 | This could be converted into a worldwide trip , so Roland went on to the ‘ Hot Spot ’ to try and get around the world in 80 seconds answering as many questions as possible . |
| 21 | To try and get round the problem Kummer introduced extra " ideal " numbers ( Section 3.9 ) to help him regain uniqueness of factorisation in many cases . |
| 22 | I personally see this is as one of my major objectives over the next year or so , and in a sense it makes me trebly grateful to be here today , because I hope some of the contacts I might make today will enable me to work alongside you in what might be called even local Berkshire band , and to try and get more a multiplicity of views from different organisations channelled through our own value objectives . |
| 23 | I want to try and get out a bit earlier today . |
| 24 | The council has set up a special investigation team to try and track down the copiers . |
| 25 | What has happened , in fact , is that Cutler has been forced to try and squeeze together a neo-Benjaminian theory of productive forces and a picture of productive relations which is positively Adorn Ian ! |
| 26 | This is seen in the way the Faroese people fiercely defend their traditional rights to hunt birds and animals for food , and their resentment of the people who come from more ‘ enlightened ’ countries to try and point out the ‘ error of their ways ’ to the islanders . |
| 27 | Could I point out to members that we did have er written replies to try and speed up the question process , could I ask members both in asking the question and especially in answering , not to make it another speech occasion because otherwise it destroys the whole purpose of having the written replies . |
| 28 | I 'd hate to try and work out a leaflet in a committee this size . |
| 29 | It was up to her to try and work out a plan of escape , but without expert help that was n't going to be easy . |
| 30 | In the meantime , the transport ministers also agreed to harmonise standards for air traffic control equipment to try and cut down the delays at EC airports . |