Example sentences of "[pers pn] try [to-vb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I , what I try to do is switch off erm , and be myself . |
| 2 | The reason I went into physics and what I try to inculcate is that the ideas themselves are interesting and that seems to me to be the main justification for it , so that when people try and justify scientific research by saying it 's good for the economy , the country and so on , or who knows what applications are going to come of it , I 'm inclined to sit rather quietly when that 's said because I 'm not convinced that some of the research that is done nowadays can have any practical application at all in that direct sense . |
| 3 | As one explained , ‘ Well , what we try to do is basically to stop young people from getting into trouble , or prevent them , in other words we keep them out of court . |
| 4 | What we try to do is help them to stop being victims . ’ |
| 5 | What we try to do is to make available to people opportunities for study in depth and over a fairly long period of time , on issues and in subjects which are part of University activity . |
| 6 | Yes , I think for a lot of people that 's true and I do n't denigrate that because I think a lot of good work goes on in the Women 's Institute , but what we are particularly interested in is in the professional craftsman , the craftsman who has trained for a number of year to produce extremely good work , and what we try to do is to make that work more available to the public in a number of ways . |
| 7 | ‘ We are quite profitable today , but the key point we try to make is that we take a very long-term view of our business . |
| 8 | Action research has come about as a result of this common situation and what it tries to do is to evaluate what is already practice . |
| 9 | The ’ height ’ which it tries to minimize is called the machine 's energy , and is defined to be |