Sentence examples for bid to test from inspiring English sources

First released in 1999, the song has been re-championed by Chris Moyles, who launched a campaign to get the song back in the top 40 in a bid to test out the new download rules.

Rooney's advisers are fully aware of the Portuguese's intentions and if, as expected, the striker hands in a transfer request within the next week, that will encourage a third Chelsea bid to test United's resolve further.

At one point, I stood outside a bookstore and, in a bid to test the exposure, focussed on a pair of browsers standing within, under an "Antiquarian" sign at the end of a long shelf.

SHANGHAI — China opened a new type of free-trade zone here on Sunday in a bid to test financial changes that the government said could eventually spread to other parts of the country.

But he said the "concept represents a significant bid to test the potential for advancing energy policy" — if Obama continues to press the case and some Republican lawmakers see the merits in moving being "drill baby drill".

Comparing actual exchange rates with PPPs is one indication of whether a currency is under- or over-valued.The Economist's correspondents around the world have been gorging themselves in a bid to test Mac-PPPs.

The first disappointment with the new anthrax vaccine occurred in early 2004 when bids to test and manufacture it came in.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced in August that the state would be accepting bids to test whether removing the silt from the reservoir might be effective.

Despite reports that Chelsea will not allow defender Gary Cahill to leave, Italian side Roma are interested in his services and could launch a late bid to try and test the Blues' resolve, reports the Evening Standard.

Those genes for which no functional assignments have been proven experimentally are then open for bids by biochemists to test the predicted functions.

Some analysts believe one of the four would bid, even if just to test the competition authorities' attitude.