Example sentences of "[vb base] try [verb] how " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do not try to prove causal relationships but they do try to understand how events bring about change from one state of affairs to another . |
| 2 | It seems that he died after drinking brandy which had been laced with strychnine and we have to try to discover how the poison got into the brandy . ’ |
| 3 | Nevertheless , there must be some feature which distinguishes the production of knowledge from that of political slogans , for example ; and we have to try to understand how the real object is transformed into the thought object . |
| 4 | Patterson and his colleagues ( 1975 ) have worked extensively with aggressive children and their families and have tried to explain how the interaction becomes progressively more violent . |
| 5 | Neo-Marxists have tried to explain how and why such phenomena can nonetheless be understood through class analysis . |
| 6 | There has not been space to say much about the flight from generality in the world outside mind , but I have tried to show how the attempts to flee generality within the mind and to abandon or reduce consciousness must both fail . |
| 7 | I have tried to show how such an approach is necessary if language teaching is to draw maximal benefits from developments in the informing disciplines while retaining its own identity as a domain of enquiry which has to meet its own conditions of relevance and accountability . |
| 8 | In a volume commemorating Darwin 's death , I have tried to show how his way of looking at the behaviour of individual plants in nature can be extended . |
| 9 | I have tried to show how Walter Benjamin 's notions of ‘ aura ’ ( and also of ‘ allegory ’ ) can be used in the analysis of postmodernist culture . |
| 10 | We have tried to discover how information is acquired , recorded and stored ; how it flows through the organization ; and what is done with it . |