Example sentences of "tried [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , in a series of moves capped by the Education Reform Act and the proposals for a national ( or , as some were quick to point out , national ist ) curriculum , the Conservative government had effectively challenged and undermined the fragile liberal consensus Swann had tried to erect in the mid-1980s . |
| 2 | Tommy Gilmour , Clinton 's manager , said last night : ‘ Pat had tried to go through the pain barrier and keep his injury from me but I have taken the decision to withdraw him after consultation with an orthopaedic surgeon . ’ |
| 3 | It was the elderly widow of the village-school caretaker , whom the council had tried to evict from the flat that went with her husband 's job . |
| 4 | Meeting the need is very much the rationale for the creation of the English commercial court , which has consciously tried to accommodate to the needs of the City of London , especially in international insurance and shipping . |
| 5 | Herr Nordern would , yes , although he would no more have refused than he would have tried to jump over the Wall . |
| 6 | Once again we have tried to reflect in the year 's programme the feed-back we have had from you and this year we have obviously been particularly aware of the financial constraints upon us . |
| 7 | The HSE 's review of the first year of COSHH concluded that most firms were aware of COSHH and had tried to comply with the regulations , though many had not gone beyond the collection of information about hazards . |
| 8 | We have thus tried to fit to the NMR data by imposing these ε values ( on one junction at a time ) while also constraining the sugar puckers to agree with the COSY data . |
| 9 | At first he had tried to look at the newspapers regularly to search for job vacancies and had sent application forms to prospective employers . |
| 10 | ‘ They had developed some particularly good methodologies on key performance measurement that they had previously tried to apply to the US insurance industry , and failed because of the lack of diversification into defined activities in the US . |
| 11 | What I have tried to do in the body of this paper is to further the understanding of postmodern culture in consideration of the latter as a figural and de-differentiated mode of signification . |
| 12 | We 've tried to negotiate with the directors . |
| 13 | It was the very tactic which he had tried to use against the Woodvilles after Stony Stratford and which had then failed because the council refused to sanction their execution . |
| 14 | It was the very tactic which he had tried to use against the Woodvilles after Stony Stratford and which had then failed because the council refused to sanction their execution . |
| 15 | Edward , fighting the thought , imagined decay ; Helen remembered the posy of flowers from the garden that she had tried to fix to the coffin lid with sellotape . |
| 16 | Many studies of stress have tried to deal with the question of the numbers of different levels . |
| 17 | We have tried to build on the uncertainty that surrounds the very definition of the inner city , firstly to examine the utility of particular cases of state intervention ( Part I of the book ) , then to highlight some of the misconceptions that have informed political initiatives in the inner city ( Part 2 ) and finally to present alternative perspectives on community mobilisation , entrepreneurship and urban crisis in the inner city ( Part 3 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ I know that does n't and ca n't excuse the way I came here and attempted to pass myself off as Cara , but I 've otherwise tried to keep to the truth , as far as possible . ’ |
| 19 | Plenty of other good bands around the country have tried to grab at the coat-tails the Manchester scene and failed as a result . |
| 20 | Plenty of other good bands around the country have tried to grab at the coat-tails the Manchester scene and failed as a result . |
| 21 | Well have you tried to park in the garage at |
| 22 | Flaubert may have tried to live in an ivory tower |
| 23 | ‘ I have always tried to live in an ivory tower , but a tide of shit is beating at its walls , threatening to undermine it . ’ |
| 24 | What was peculiar about my own circumstances I have already tried to describe in the hope of finding and revealing some useful clues . |
| 25 | The distraught and guilt-ridden driver was unable to remember the number plates of the vans which he had tried to memorise at the time of the kidnapping . |
| 26 | Palestinians who have tried to reason with the Israelis about the meaning of the Intifada find all this dispiriting . |
| 27 | Da Silva said he had tried to reason with the fans but they had drawn guns . |
| 28 | Of course he 's tried to get under a polythene sheet to contain it |
| 29 | Even allowing for delicious exaggeration it still added up to a horrifying picture and she began to wish she had n't even tried to get into the company . |
| 30 | But at least he is here , she thought , and wondered if she would really have tried to get into the Workshops by herself if she had had to . |