Example sentences of "a attempt [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GATT 's Director-General , Arthur Dunkel , meanwhile was mandated by a majority of the GATT 's 108 member countries to begin a round of shuttle diplomacy between Washington and Brussels in an attempt to avert a transatlantic trade war . |
| 2 | This was an attempt to sabotage a heavy water plant in Norway vital to German atomic bomb development . |
| 3 | Why might an attempt to explain a particular set of phenomena flounder ? |
| 4 | A typical objection against it might be that it involves an attempt to settle a metaphysical issue without first clarifying the conditions under which such an issue can be meaningfully discussed . |
| 5 | An attempt to conduct a mock auction is proscribed under s1(1) of the Mock Auctions Act 1961 . |
| 6 | It is the angel Gabriel who comes to Charlemagne at the end of the poem , just as Gabriel and Michael — the fighting archangel , whose cult was flourishing anew in the tenth and eleventh centuries — come to Roland to carry his soul to heaven ; the poem is definitely Christian , and an attempt to set a religious seal on knightly glory ; but the knightly glory has in its turn captured the Church , and harnessed it , in the person of the archbishop of Rheims , to the holy war against the infidel . |
| 7 | He had also pleaded guilty to charges of possession and trafficking in an attempt to receive a lesser sentence . |
| 8 | An attempt to murder a well-known television journalist , Aleksandr Nevzorov , was reported on Feb. 3 . |
| 9 | Writing pretty words in an attempt to persuade a gullible public to spend their money . ’ |
| 10 | Regalism was a traditional position of the crown , not an attempt to create a lay state — Charles III , the regalist king , was devoted to the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception . |
| 11 | The Situationists ' activities within the cultural sphere constituted an attempt to create a unified range of activities which functioned as a radical critique of the conventional boundaries between specialisations embedded in the institutions , practices and agencies of modern life . |
| 12 | Church and state would work together , as they always had done , in an attempt to create a coherent image of Peru . |
| 13 | At the heart of the Dearing Report 's proposals for a new system for setting accounting standards is an attempt to create a new alliance between accountancy and the law to improve the quality of financial reporting . |
| 14 | One view saw Suharto 's motive in encouraging greater activism on the part of Golkar as an attempt to acquire a reforming image to help counteract pressure on him to stand down before the 1993 election . |
| 15 | There are difficulties assessing the child between the age of 2 and 4 years and so a range of different tests is used in an attempt to tap a wide range of the child 's skills and maintain the child 's interest and motivation to co-operate . |
| 16 | The EPA claims that its study was hampered by pressure of time in meeting an August 1 deadline set by a federal court decree , imposed after the American Lung Association sued the EPA last October in an attempt to force a new review . |
| 17 | Mud is being pumped out of the land-locked Alderfen Broad in Norfolk in an attempt to restore a rich water plant community and a healthy fish population . |
| 18 | 1977 , however , brought a big failure with ‘ Jazz ’ , an attempt to give a contemporary slant to old jazz tunes . |
| 19 | RUGBY LEAGUE : Andy Gregory checked into a top London clinic yesterday in an attempt to cure a worrying groin injury which is threatening his chances of a record breaking eighth Wembley appearance in Saturday 's Challenge Cup final against Castleford . |
| 20 | In an attempt to reach a practical solution , Brunig and Klinge worked in Amazonian forest that was estimated to have some 700 plant species , excluding cryptogams , representing 70 families . |
| 21 | Gould , it appears from his own references , was too busy collecting specimens to engage in an attempt to reach a remote part of the river . |
| 22 | One of the interesting things that I do is go every so often and talk to groups of British civil servants who are going to spend some of them a week some of them up to six weeks on an exchange visit erm with the French civil service , in an attempt to learn a certain amount erm about how the system works , both so that they will be able to understand more easily when it comes to joint erm ventures , joint matters , joint policies , what the other side is doing and the pressures within which it 's operating , and also so that sometimes they may be able to learn things , and pick up useful tips and hints about the way to handle a particular problem . |
| 23 | He suggests that section 8(3) will probably be ‘ sensibly construed as an attempt to strike a realistic balance ’ and points out that there will be ‘ room for legitimate differences of emphasis among the various agreed syllabuses , as at present ’ . |
| 24 | Their appeals to the morality and mystery of their work in an attempt to establish a charismatic authority may be seen as a defence of their status since , as Paterson 's discussion of judges reminds us , there are social strata above the professions . |
| 25 | The first was an attempt to establish a privileged relationship with West Germany , to whose existence he had now reconciled himself . |
| 26 | In an attempt to establish a national administration in the absence of John Balliol , Scottish nobles and clerics had in 1299 appointed a triumvirate of Guardians : Bishop William Lamberton of St Andrews ; John , the Red Comyn of Badenoch ; and a member of the Comyns ' long-standing rival family , young Robert Bruce of Carrick . |
| 27 | WEMBLEY has cut some of its ticket prices by half in an attempt to ensure a respectable crowd for England 's friendly against Yugoslavia next Wednesday . |
| 28 | WEMBLEY has cut some of its ticket prices by half in an attempt to ensure a respectable crowd for England 's friendly against Yugoslavia next Wednesday . |
| 29 | The race build up has been disrupted by the controversy over an attempt to impose a minimum time limit of 1hr 50min , because of road closures . |
| 30 | Clearly this is an attempt to impose a national screening and surveillance programme to monitor the health of older people . |