Example sentences of "[noun sg] try [verb] how " in BNC.
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| 1 | In writing this book , it has been my intention to try to see how war , over a period of 150 years or so , affected developments and changes in two of Europe 's leading societies , those of France and England . |
| 2 | Similarly , when Mill tries to explain how we can decide which is qualitatively the better of two pleasures , his actual answer is more or less that the higher pleasure is the one which is actually more liked by those in a position to compare them . |
| 3 | Artificial Intelligence tries to understand how this knowledge and language interact , and to reproduce the process in computers . |
| 4 | The study will also collect data from a small sample of next of kin of those who have died or entered residential care to try to understand how these events affected the network and how family and friends cope with crises . |
| 5 | Conversation analysis tries to describe how people take turns , and under what circumstances they overlap turns or pause between them . |
| 6 | the task is so vague and ill defined that there is a strong possibility that subordinates or others will waste too much time and effort trying to decide how they should proceed . |
| 7 | We tell Nat to stay where he is , brushing the snow from his bag to try to minimize how wet it will be . |
| 8 | They spend more and more time trying to study how we work and how we do things . |