Example sentences of "try [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just to try & redress the balance here ; - ) I watched the goals on MOTD and I must say that Speed did appear to wrestle someone to the ground ( def. free kick ) . |
| 2 | My next visit was in 1987 when , armed with the necessary maps and a compass , I started to try and untangle the mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau . |
| 3 | And I think it w w was quite difficult for people because they 'd either have to walk a long way to try and make a telephone call . |
| 4 | Then , heading out next morning to try and make a 90-mile ( 130km ) passage before some nasty weather arrived ( we just made it ) , the place was all a-bustle . |
| 5 | One classic er case that only occurred a few years ago and it was way before bonfire night , but erm , people working from home to try and make a little bit of pin money , a young lady had taken on the task of putting sparklers into five into a little bag for a particular manufacturer . |
| 6 | er we both met him to try and make a plea to him to try and change his views and it 's fair to say that he does n't know or did n't know what was going on in his own backyard and John Patten I feel is the same as is the rest of the M P's in the Oxfordshire area . |
| 7 | If the result is unsatisfactory it can be used as a motivating factor to persuade them to try and make an improvement . |
| 8 | You 're only here once so you 've got to try and make the most of it and enjoy life to the full . ’ |
| 9 | Aim to try and make the pressure equal in each arm by moving the hands up and down the boom . |
| 10 | We 're doing this to try and make the mothers our allies in caring for their children , ’ explains Manning . |
| 11 | Mac-to-PowerPC software start-up , Echo Logic ( UX No 385 ) , fresh from its triumphant debut , figures it has proved the feasibility of its concept and is now starting afresh to try and make the binary compiler technology , FlashPort , easy to use . |
| 12 | All I do know is that we 're very conscious a great deal of money 's been spent by the Council and by the Trust to try and make the place outside more inviting those tubs been put there er they been planted etc there 's a lot of litter there we 've put litter bins there there 's taxi rank there there 's lot 's of things been put there I think the problem is it is n't the people who do that I mean it 's the people who actually do the litter and it 's quite clear that we do go out we do tidy up but it happens and it 's a case of balance of what we can do and what you ca n't do but we do work at it I can assure you . |
| 13 | The NHS reforms and the Patient 's Charter are designed to try and make the health service more customer or patient oriented , but structural reforms and exhortations will never be enough on their own . |
| 14 | ‘ We felt it was important to try and make the programme last longer this time around so that the friendships made are n't lost . ’ |
| 15 | Has anyone got the Leeds ticket office or fax number , We are planning to try and make the wednesday match on feb the 12th , that is if any tickets are still available . |
| 16 | Has anyone got the Leeds ticket office or fax number , We are planning to try and make the wednesday match on feb the 12th , that is if any tickets are still available . |
| 17 | Mr makes there was an under , enumeration of figures and that has been made clear in the reply the reply is quite clear about the basis on which the structure plan is being promulgated and the total projected total population in two thousand and six regards the historical data , that should be taken , as far as I 'm concerned , as matters of fact , will of course not be absolutely accurate and as far as projected data is concerned all that we can do any of us can do is to try and make the best estimates possible and I am satisfied that our officers will have done that . |
| 18 | Erm , I take the view that we ought to try and make the existing arrangements work and we are fast approaching a very key point er in that process erm I understand that on Thursday , er securities and investments board , the board will consider the er P I A , proposed P I A prospectus and that er within a week or so we shall all be able to read it and to look at it erm and the key point , which really is arises out of what we 're discussing tonight , the key point is what regulatory framework should the P I A place on intermediaries and on er life assurance companies , pension funds , financial advisors generally er in order to ensure that the public interest is protected and that if there are potential frauds erm such as the Levitt case er that we talked about earlier and I think the honourable member in sort of by implication in terms of er community service , er punishments that he referred to , er had also that in mind , er just what should we do to ensure that if there is malpractice and fraud , it 's picked up very , very quickly . |
| 19 | Mr Rankin said villagers were writing to the environmental health authority to try and sort the matter out , ‘ At evenings and weekends , the continuous drumming of the bikes sounds like a chainsaw . ’ |
| 20 | yeah , she maybe does , but I think she 's trying to , to try and promote the fact that aids patients are harmless , because a lot of aids patients are very isolated , people do n't want to know them , they think you can catch it through shaking hands , drinking out the same cup and all that , and I think she 's trying to prove that look I 'm alright , so should you be , but she does go a bit over the top |
| 21 | Erm I 'd liked to discuss the point about what aid we can give to try and promote the stability and the event of prosperity of the country . |
| 22 | ‘ We believe we have done everything reasonable to try and collect the outstanding cash , ’ said Rosie McLeod , principal officer in the borough treasurer 's department . |
| 23 | As damages are paid on a full and final settlement basis , you will appreciate that we must be sure that the report is full and accurate before I begin any negotiations to try and settle the case . |
| 24 | You know you get these little red veins on the su , on the cheek area if you do n't wear a moisturizer those little red veins can get worse , so we use a moisturizer to try and protect the skin . |
| 25 | So er that s er that firm collapsed and people lost money and er that 's why FIMBRA is there , er to try and protect the investor . |
| 26 | The 43-year-old Irishman is having to battle through the qualifying rounds in Blackpool to try and clinch a place in next April 's finals of the £1 million Embassy world championship in Sheffield . |
| 27 | The Israeli political system remained in a state of deadlock throughout April following the collapse of the Likud-Labour coalition in mid-March [ see pp. 37303-04 ] , when the Labour leader Shimon Peres had been invited to try and achieve a majority in the 120-member , evenly balanced Knesset ( parliament ) . |
| 28 | Innovations in teaching methods do not usually come in the form of simple additions to a teacher 's repertoire , generalizable to all subject matters , but are usually designed to achieve more effectively an understanding of some particular X. Usually , for a variety of reasons , the descriptions of ‘ how to proceed ’ are not at a level of precision which makes the teacher a programmed automaton ; it follows that any teacher persuaded to adopt the innovation must be willing and able to explore modifications to his repertoire in order to try and achieve the hoped-for improvement in his pupils ' understanding of X at which the innovation is aimed . |
| 29 | He said he hoped to use his year as chairman to try and double the membership from 100 to 200 as well as helping with training . |
| 30 | The wind had freshened by this time and was causing some choppy waves , so we pressed on to try and finish the circuit planned before counting became impossible . |