Example sentences of "to try [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They find it very difficult to get into Torbay to try and trade cos it 's very , I mean it 's another hour on the trip really is n't it ? |
| 2 | Well to try and show that we 'd covered we 'd taken in as much of what was going on |
| 3 | The flagship of the British labour movement , nothing less , that 's the vision , that 's what we want to try and create and that 's what we want to come back to you and tell you about the prospects next year . |
| 4 | Once a mutation that causes an abnormality is observed , it becomes possible to try and identify and isolate the gene . |
| 5 | By the time they were on their way to the airport , Fabia had a note of Vendelin Gajdusek 's address and was racking her brains to try and think if there was anything else she needed to know . |
| 6 | To try and insinuate that we had done something wrong . |
| 7 | To try and explain that verbally would be very very hard |
| 8 | The first need is to try and ensure that the churchyard is looked after and kept tidy . |
| 9 | The Council has to try and ensure that the subject ‘ bits ’ of the curriculum form a coherent whole and somehow deliver the broad and balanced curriculum enshrined in the noble opening passages of the Act . |
| 10 | Now the Presbyterian Church as the Church of Scotland enjoys a unique place in Scottish life and its structures it has a privileged place but I would suggest to you it has also therefore a number of responsibilities and one , I would suggest in this case , is to try and ensure that these local regional teams are in place . |
| 11 | Since most of the money being offered was raised through Federal taxation , especially income tax , these mechanisms were being used to try and ensure that State governments did operate the welfare programmes seen as desirable by the Federal government ; if they did not , then their residents were paying taxes to Washington , but receiving relatively little in return . |
| 12 | 233 seems to be that if a wife signs a security document at her debtor husband 's request , the creditor will be unable to enforce the security unless either the debtor or the creditor has taken positive steps to try and ensure that the wife understands the import of the security documents or unless she has obtained independent advice . |
| 13 | In cases falling within this protected class , equity would hold the security given by the surety to be unenforceable by the creditor if : ( i ) the relationship between the debtor and the surety and the consequent likelihood of influence and reliance was known to the creditor ; and ( ii ) the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by undue influence or material misrepresentation on the part of the debtor or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction ; and ( iii ) the creditor , whether by leaving it to the debtor to deal with the surety or otherwise , had failed to take reasonable steps to try and ensure that the surety entered into the transaction with an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction and that the surety 's consent to the transaction was a true and informed one . |
| 14 | In these circumstances it is necessary to ask whether the bank took reasonable steps to try and ensure that she had an adequate comprehension of the effect of the charge . |
| 15 | The reasoned , the reasoned proposals which are contained in a very thought out amen which has in fact contains ideas submitted by many different people of different persuasions to try and ensure that ideas could be erm worked at solidly does break the endless delays . |
| 16 | The purpose of general management is to try and ensure that in the city that we are getting the best value we can from the health resources that are in the city , and I have the authority now , and the responsibility to spend the budget that I 've had allocated from the Oxfordshire Health Authority , by Gerald Simon who 's the general manager . |
| 17 | on a lot of systems , really now is the time for you to try and go and buy a new system , because you can knock them down immensely really good bargains the basic |
| 18 | Well I think of evaluation as the process by which a person or a group of people have a fairly careful look at something they 're doing in order to try and decide whether it 's going well or badly , whether there are things in it they might wish to improve , and how valuable they think it is whether they might want to make changes in it in any way . |
| 19 | A worrying thing at the moment is as I said we 're in close contact with is that the Malaysian Government is sending representatives over to visit the European Community Ministers in May , to try and say that there 's absolutely nothing wrong with what 's going on in their country with the logging , and they 're saying that people like Friends of the Earth are calling for a ban on timber , not because they care about sustained yield , but because we want to be able to sell our own wood , and this is to depress their trade . |
| 20 | After a moment he added caustically , ‘ However , I presume you 're not going to try and deny that it was a portrait of you ? ’ |
| 21 | In the years that followed endless analyses were made to try and determine whether Penkovsky had really been what he seemed . |
| 22 | I washed them trainers our Johnny given me and I cleaned them for him to try and save and then them black shoes for school to save his boots for the |
| 23 | ‘ They 're going to try and get that other door open , ’ she told me . |
| 24 | So that 's just for your per your personal pride I suppose is to try and get that because |
| 25 | where you , you get a scale response to them and we can do stats on but equally , if you get people to describe their most recent dream or describe their most erm , you know , compelling dream or , you know , a good one that they 've had in the last year or something like that , you may want to try and get that on tape or something like that erm if possible , yeah . |
| 26 | Well our main brief was that we was to try and minimize and control the vandalism , or any property belonging to the county council . |
| 27 | within the first-aiders and the , and obviously to try and try and drive it to them on that issue . |
| 28 | that is a danger , what we have to try and remember although it 's no great comfort to you , is that overall , the prize is tremendous |
| 29 | An " anti-monde " analysis is used to try and establish and quantify the effects of integration . |
| 30 | Nonetheless , he continued to try and persuade that he was telling the truth . |