Example sentences of "the attempt [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | As for his goodness , the attempt to live a Christian life was so much a part of Irwin 's public persona that the legend became current that , arriving in India on Good Friday , he ignored the official ceremonies of welcome and went straight to church . |
| 2 | The attempt to create a unified alliance to the left of the Social Democrats had gathered pace after the SKDL and SKP executives had approved a merger in principle . |
| 3 | The second approach was the attempt to create a new class of ‘ master farmer ’ . |
| 4 | It was the belief of Chaptal , Napoleon 's Minister , that the attempt to create a colonial market came too late . |
| 5 | However , Austria has already submitted its request for full membership of the EC and this might be followed by Norway and Sweden if the attempt to negotiate a wider West European unity breaks down . |
| 6 | Yet in the 1930s Nizan 's intellectual itinerary was centred on the attempt to reconcile a genuine belief in the moral integrity of Marxism with the practical application of communist party politics , the attempt , in other words , to reconcile intellectual images with political reality . |
| 7 | Frightened off by such high figures , many collectors renounce the attempt to assemble a complete range of bindings over the centuries and , sensibly , turn to more limited fields ; for example , to books stamped with the coats of arms or crests of early owners in gilt or ‘ blind ’ ( without gold or colour ) . |
| 8 | The attempt to adopt a public health model , bringing a whole host of welfare agencies to primary intervention opened up ‘ a power struggle from which the mental health field had yet to recover ’ , according to Gardner ( writing in 1977 ) . |
| 9 | One promising line of further reconnaissance involved the attempt to find a fundamental role for waves where no one had previously supposed they were relevant . |
| 10 | This , it seems to me , is a them that is of abiding significance , because we all of us do things for the wrong reasons , and yet it 's all rather magnificently tied up with the attempt to build a glorious spire to a medieval cathedral . |
| 11 | From the perspectives of both professionals and parents the attempt to build a cooperative framework directed towards meeting John 's needs had broken down . |
| 12 | He also designed the Midland Hotel , Morecambe , Lancashire , in 1933 as a pioneer modernist public building , and was involved in the attempt to build a modernist seaside resort at Frinton Park , Essex . |
| 13 | Thus , realism may most readily be viewed as a reaction to the attempt to construct a formal science of law founded on what may be termed the case method ; that is , the assumption that , by close examination of past judicial decisions , the basic principles of law could be deduced . |
| 14 | Firstly , although the attempt to establish a coherent set of sentencing principles is commendable , the proportionality principle is seriously compromised by the exceptions relating to violent or sexual offenders . |
| 15 | Nevertheless we can say at least that his preoccupation with history has been consistent throughout : the articulation of repressed history in Madness and Civilization ( 1961 ) , the historicity of history in The Order of Things ( 1966 ) , the epistemic mutation of history and the theoretical difficulties of historiography in The Archaeology of knowledge ( 1969 ) , and the attempt to write a different kind of history , ‘ genealogy ’ , that demonstrates the emergence of new forms of power in Discipline and Punish ( 1975 ) and The History of Sexuality ( 1976–84 ) |
| 16 | The attempt to achieve a national core curriculum , while widely supported as a way of improving literacy and numeracy amongst schoolchildren , was also feared as yet another turn in the ratchet of state control over local experimentation . |
| 17 | Despite the appeal of such ideas among both socialist intellectuals and trade union activists , the attempt to develop a non-statist socialism was ultimately subordinated to a Labour Party socialism which placed its emphasis on nationalization and the power of the state . |
| 18 | They can therefore be viewed as an attempt to translate the methodological rigours of economic science to the sphere of political behaviour in which , as we have seen , the attempt to develop a scientific approach has not been entirely successful . |
| 19 | The attempt to play a separate role — that is , a role apart from Europe , a role based on a ‘ Special Relationship ’ with the United States , a role based on being head of a ‘ Commonwealth ’ which has no political structure , or unity , or strength , and enjoys a fragile and precarious reality by means of the sterling area and preferences in the British market — this role is about played out . |
| 20 | Even without a conflict in interests , the attempt to encompass a vast specificity of goods , or the abstractions of academia , have their dangers to the group involved . |
| 21 | The business of the new configuration was different : art ‘ transferred to the praxis of life ’ — not however ‘ to integrate art into this praxis ’ but ‘ the attempt to organise a new life praxis from a basis in art ’ ( cited p. 54 ) . |
| 22 | It suggests that the attempt to impose a neutral character on the liberal state and to purge its law of any substantive content can only serve to erode those moral and religious foundations which are essential for the survival of liberalism . |
| 23 | Despite the attempt to impose a rigid status system , the division between farmers and warriors was never as clear cut as intended . |