Example sentences of "unsuccessful attempt [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Joseph made two unsuccessful attempts to limit the national curriculum to a purely advisory role and to restrict its operation to the three core subjects . |
| 2 | Francis Maude , Minister of State in the UK Foreign Office , visited Hanoi on Feb. 18-21 in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade the Vietnamese government to accept a policy of involuntary repatriation from Hong Kong of those Vietnamese " boat people " screened out as " economic migrants " . |
| 3 | The Election of 1705 , for example , which occurred shortly after the unsuccessful attempt to tack the Occasional Conformity Bill to the Land Tax Bill , was fought largely over the issue of the Church in Danger , and produced a series of bitter contests throughout the country . |
| 4 | An usher made an unsuccessful attempt to separate the two men , but it took the intervention of the woman to calm things down . |
| 5 | Reversing his father 's peaceful foreign policies under Buckingham 's influence , Charles was soon engaged in an unsuccessful attempt to capture the Spanish treasure fleet and a humiliating failure to relieve the Huguenots at La Rochelle , who were in rebellion against the Roman Catholic government of France . |