Example sentences of "[verb] tried [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The underlying philosophy has tried to be selective in aiming at farmers with intermediate and non-viable enterprises . |
| 2 | Mrs Thatcher has always realized that her power base lay with back-benchers and has tried to be accessible to them . |
| 3 | Sanyo has tried to be active in the personal computer market as a member of the Japanese-language AT-compatible AX PC group , but has an almost negligible share within Japan , with most sales coming in OEM from Europe and the US . |
| 4 | I 've tried to be sensible about getting back into it , which is strange for an athlete , and it 's forcing me to temper my enthusiasm and take the training easy . ’ |
| 5 | I had tried to be discreet , as the subject was professional dynamite even when discussed in private with a great friend . |
| 6 | And he had tried to be helpful about the blotter , staring at it with almost painful intensity before saying that he thought that the black markings had n't been there when he had last seen the blotter on Monday evening . |
| 7 | The deputy editor had tried to be helpful . |
| 8 | She wanted to hurt the man who had told her Rob had n't come back , but he had tried to be kind and anyway she could n't think clearly . |
| 9 | She had tried to be hard and grasping , tried to deal with this in a sophisticated , detached manner . |
| 10 | Some nations who have tried to be serious have ended up being dull . |
| 11 | I have tried to be honest today . |
| 12 | ‘ We realise this is a long-term problem and we have tried to be helpful , ’ said Mrs Mitchell . |
| 13 | In what follows I have tried to be explicit and specific about experiences which are by their nature woolly and indeterminate , resisting expression . |
| 14 | But they do not question traditional psychology 's male-identified emphasis on , for example , objectivity and success : ‘ We are both feminists … and although we have tried to be objective about the value-laden topics discussed in this book , we know we can not have succeeded entirely ’ ( 1974 : 12–13 , my emphasis ) . |