Example sentences of "as i have try [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Belief in God , as I have tried to outline it , is a venture , a practical commitment , undergone in acceptance of the fact that the evidence for God 's existence is never going to produce certainty . |
| 2 | Rational planning , as I have tried to outline it , is , if you like , an ideal , whose application necessitates conditions that will never be completely fulfilled . |
| 3 | I would also like to know how critical the timing of the distributor pump is , as I have tried adjusting it ( by trial and error ) about a couple of degrees , with some improvement in performance , but do not want to take it too far . |
| 4 | As I have tried to demonstrate , there were good ideological reasons for Free Presbyterians to be Protestant Unionists , but there was also an element of personal loyalty . |
| 5 | If , as I have tried to demonstrate , the problem of child abuse is itself one dimension or label given to the way problems between children and adults manifest themselves then this should be recognized in practice . |
| 6 | For as I have tried to illustrate above , the third kind of relation technical and advisory — exists in the context of broader political notions which themselves depend upon such interpretations . |
| 7 | Both sides of the House could and should support most of its provisions , but where improvements are necessary we shall be pressing them on the Minister , and I hope that we shall receive as fair a hearing from him as I have tried to give his Bill this afternoon . |
| 8 | As I have tried to show , the significance for our culture of humanist transgression , this escape from repression into the affirmation of one 's true self can hardly be overestimated . |
| 9 | But , as I have tried to show , the relationship between euphoria and depression is synchronic : depression does not follow euphoria , but is masked by it . |
| 10 | As I have tried to show , ‘ neutral ’ language does not do this routinely ; however ‘ fair ’ or ‘ accurate ’ it may be , it therefore fails in what I consider a crucial political task . |
| 11 | It is a tradition that goes back , as I have tried to show , to Hegel 's philosophy of history and which loves to operate with ideas of the Zeitgeist ( spirit of the age ) and Volksgeist ( spirit of the people ) . |
| 12 | This is not an acid test , far less a self-evident one , but , as I have tried to show , contenders that profess to be are sure to fail . |
| 13 | But the realities of decision making , as I have tried to show earlier in this chapter , are not so readily pinned down . |
| 14 | Even so , the grip of liberal ideas upon the law of contract is weakening , because , as I have tried to show , the legal doctrine is ultimately shaped not by fidelity to liberal precepts but by a particular scheme of distributive justice and a vision of the legitimate market order . |
| 15 | Furthermore , as I have tried to show in my book Evangelism in the Early Church , there was considerable flexibility in the way the gospel was preached to different audiences in different circumstances , coupled with great unity in presenting men with the person of Jesus , the offer of forgiveness through his death on the cross , the promise of the Holy Spirit , and the challenge to repent and believe and be baptised . |
| 16 | If , as I have tried to show , the acquisition of the ego and superego were such important aspects of economic adaptation , first to hunting and then to cultivation , it is clear that the very success of the latter threatened to compromise the psychological foundations on which it was based . |
| 17 | As I have tried to tell you , she was the wife of an old friend and I 've kept in touch since she got divorced — ’ |
| 18 | ‘ As much as I have tried to avoid it , people will undoubtedly try to associate the future king with the Prince of Wales and other figures with other members of the Royal family . |