Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And even when the other ship tried to follow is into Flicker , so that both of is were in sub-light together for a millisecond , Posi had only glimpsed it . |
| 2 | What we should try to create is a flagship of the labour movement . |
| 3 | What you should try to remember is that a helicopter is essentially a frictionless device and , once moving , will tend to continue moving until an opposite command is given to stop it . |
| 4 | All I can try to do is to outline what theists have been saying when they talk of God , and to try to offset some popular misconceptions of what they mean . |
| 5 | So what we will try to do is to work out a preliminary understanding of the conventions which tell English speakers when to use " the " . |
| 6 | What the report should try to do is to appear to offer an improvement in existing facilities and support to teachers and pupils without calling for a dramatic reorganization of timetables , syllabi or teaching methods . |
| 7 | You 've got , you 've got like water rate , twelve hundred , er , rates , twelve but er , what we could try to do is approach them and see if we can lump it in with this year and that , obviously have to pay higher |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I , I , what I try to do is switch off erm , and be myself . |
| 10 | What we try to do is help them to stop being victims . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | One of the main questions that the following chapters try to address is how these pressures fed through into changes in industrial relations strategies and practices in the enterprises.The rest of this chapter lays the groundwork for this examination by considering how the general relationship between public enterprise and the state has evolved under the pressures of ‘ commercialism ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | The ’ height ’ which it tries to minimize is called the machine 's energy , and is defined to be |
| 17 | ALRINS The module you have tried to install is already installed . |
| 18 | What I have tried to do is to highlight the changes of greatest significance to a wider audience ; preparers and auditors of building society accounts will need to refer to the 1992 regulations themselves for a comprehensive assessment of all the changes . |
| 19 | And what we 've tried to do is to look at the national curriculum and try to identify young engineers who could go in and help with design and technology and quite obviously , practice what they preach . |
| 20 | what I 've tried to do is not to and we 've had the money , is to buy one in each set cos we have n't got the money to buy full sets , thirty books is a joke ! |
| 21 | Far from seeking to gain political advantage , all that my Group have tried to do is to continue with a long-held policy on disability . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | What the term ‘ popular music ’ tries to do is to put a finger on that space , that terrain , of contradiction — between ‘ imposed ’ and ‘ authentic ’ , ‘ elite ’ and ‘ common ’ , predominant and subordinate , then and now , theirs and ours , and so on — and to organize it in particular ways |
| 24 | and what repression tries to do is to plug those holes and to keep the repressed repressed . |
| 25 | The position I have tried to adopt is that whilst the atheist must demand clarity , the theist can argue that the nature of his or her task necessitates a use of language that is bound to be criticised as unusual , although it can not be allowed to be contradictory . |
| 26 | BEINST The module you have tried to install/deinstall is currently being installed . |
| 27 | PMOF The module you have tried to install/deinstall is offline . |
| 28 | Instead , despite writing soon after Nadir Shah had returned to Persia , the overwhelming impression that Khan tries to convey is still of a bawdy city of joy , a place remarkable for its wild parties , its lively celebrations and orgiastic festivals . |
| 29 | NOTINS The module you have tried to deinstall is not currently installed . |
| 30 | Returning to the more general picture , the essential notion that this formalization tries to capture is that the associability of a stimulus will be determined by how well the consequences of that stimulus are predicted . |