Example sentences of "[been] try " in BNC.
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| 1 | Honestly , girl , if you only knew where I 'd been to try and find you ! ’ |
| 2 | His one catastrophic mistake had been to try to settle the mystery for ever by making Harry disappear . |
| 3 | Our policy has been to try to build up a great team and not to weaken our playing strength , and it was for this reason that we accepted the offer made . |
| 4 | In the UK , and in the USA , the first step has been to try to set up an assessment procedure ( Simpson , 1981 ) ; then to consider how training might best be implemented . |
| 5 | The purpose of our work has been to try to look at all aspects of sign language which might help those who make choices . |
| 6 | The response to parental discontent and pupil underachievement has been to try to design curriculum guidelines . |
| 7 | Essentially the approach has been to try and identify the factors or characteristics that are associated with cases or situations of abuse , to assume that these are qualitatively different from the rest of the population and finally to hypothesize that these factors or characteristics in some way relate to the basic cause(s) of the problem . |
| 8 | The Sergeant walked past inspecting the kit , finding fault everywhere ; my mistake had been to try and conceal an unwashed pair of pants in my bag . |
| 9 | The official reaction to these changes ( more fully discussed in Chapter 9 ) has been to try and persuade farmers to adopt a more conservationist attitude , notably on unproductive land ( Leonard and Cobham , 1977 ) . |
| 10 | One red herring that has been produced by increased language awareness among teachers has been to try to rewrite academic texts so that pupils can cope with them . |
| 11 | Prior to this riot , the Johnson administration 's strategy had been to try and eradicate the possibility of further disorder by tackling the chronic social problems highlighted by the riots . |
| 12 | In its most recent statements the government 's main concern has been to try to ensure that council house rents reflect more closely the values of the houses . |
| 13 | Well what most airlines have done has been to try and trim back their scale of operations , but what Virgin are doing is using Richard Branson 's personal money to try and expand out of trouble . |
| 14 | But one can not deny that a more scientific decision would have been to try to make the return of the offending plates obligatory , so that only the accurate , authentic figures were permitted circulation . |
| 15 | One objective of the more recent theories has been to try and reconcile this apparent conflict in the different sets of statistical results . |
| 16 | Norwich-Birmingham had already been tried , with locomotive-hauled stock , but putting together the services which previously had separately linked Liverpool , Warrington Central , Manchester ; Blackpool and Manchester ; Sheffield via the Hope Valley line ; Nottingham , Grantham , Peterborough , Ely and Ipswich/Norwich and Harwich Parkeston Quay , was a bold move from which has developed a popular route on which much new business is emerging . |
| 17 | Several transplants have been tried before , but this is the first time they have continued to function for a long period , according to the researchers at the University of Alberta , in Edmonton . |
| 18 | Credit controls have been tried in the past in Britain , and proved arbitrary and ineffective . |
| 19 | These two women who have never been tried have become two of the stars of the French press 's Chamber of Horrors . |
| 20 | Planning had failed ; perhaps , compared with the French Monnet Plan or the ‘ reform bureaucracy ’ of Scandinavia , it had not even been tried . |
| 21 | The rival method of using metal rollers for milling corn had been tried as early as the sixteenth century but was generally only adopted for malt-milling until , in 1834 , a Swiss engineer substituted rollers for the original stones in the reconstruction of an existing mill . |
| 22 | Something similar in principle has been tried in the United States , with the issue of tradable acid pollution permits . |
| 23 | The new ministers soon find that there is remarkably little room for manoeuvre , and that most of the quick and easy panaceas to the intractable problems of Defence have been tried many times before . |
| 24 | Pancreas transplants have been tried , but the surgery is complex , the tissue delicate and the danger of rejection always there . |
| 25 | But each time this has been tried , it comes up against the apparently irreconcilable rivalries of the three figures who have dominated the French right for the past 15 years — Jacques Chirac , Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and ( to a lesser extent ) Raymond Barre . |
| 26 | Many of these schemes have been tried before in small doses . |
| 27 | Moving people has also been tried , for instance by giving housing subsidies to poor people so that they can move out of inner-city slums and rent new homes in the suburbs . |
| 28 | In the end , I am a better woman , for my values are secure , they have been tried and not found wanting . |
| 29 | But no one had any suggestions ; almost everything had been tried , or asked for , or abandoned . |
| 30 | This is true , and no one can say they know a score , however well it may be known in the mind , until it has been tried on the orchestra . |