Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] [adj] to try and " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | it 's even harder to try and get by on your pay packet and to get all the Christmas presents . |
| 3 | And it 's much easier to try and control it on the clutch . |
| 4 | It 's too much to try and do it all as well as . |
| 5 | It 's very important to try and answer , ‘ Oxford University Press ’ , because otherwise , you know , it 's not good form really . |
| 6 | By the time this stage has been reached it is rather late to try and prevent it . |
| 7 | It is rarely useful to try and adjust fully to the time-zone transition before the journey , since this will interrupt your life-style too much . |
| 8 | It is also sensible to try and find out the likelihood of offers being accepted . |
| 9 | That shows how much energy is available , and it is very attractive to try and harness this , but since the turn of the century there have been over a hundred patented devices to extract energy from the waves , but we still do n't have a single commercial one operating . |
| 10 | Conditions were so bad that emergency crews were told it was too dangerous to try and restore power before daybreak . |
| 11 | By then it was too late to try and change her policy , for the overseer seemed to have taken a real dislike to her , watching for any slip she made , so that he could punish her for being high and mighty as he called it . |
| 12 | it was too late to try and stop the marriage now , and it certainly had n't occurred to him to try at the time . |
| 13 | As technology made itself available to people like me , it was very natural to try and use it . |