Example sentences of "attempt [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is difficult to judge how far this attempt to appeal to the baser sort is dictated by the mere desire to be re-elected ( which , though by no means admirable , is , we suppose , understandable enough ) , rather than by any firm conviction ; or how far a re-elected Tory government would seek to put these detestable principles into practice . |
| 2 | Yet there can be little doubt that Joseph 's reformism was genuine and was combined with an attempt to appeal to the national past ; he encouraged the national theatre , set up a commission to exhume Cervantes ' remains , patronized a national museum of painting . |
| 3 | They produced an attempt to cope with the repressed memory in the form of Christianity , where a son was offered as a sacrifice to the father . |
| 4 | Utilisation measured by admission rates at the small area level was used as the measure of need , with an attempt to adjust for the current level of supply of health care facilities . |
| 5 | Charlie is unaware of the spirits alive in him , so that the narrator of the story is frustrated in his attempt to come at the uncluttered account of past lives . |
| 6 | A speechwriter 's attempt to compensate for the public relations lapse in not going to the Berlin Wall , Mr Bush 's prime time statement went out on all television channels on Thanksgiving Eve . |
| 7 | She does not expect her readers to accept her own conclusions verbatim , but urges them to make a similar creative attempt to listen for the deeper implications of the Christian message , to reach through the dogmas and intellectual propositions , which can never do justice to the ineffable mystery of the divine , and touch the heart of the faith . |
| 8 | If there was not , A might still believe that B was looking for something to steal , which could constitute an attempt to steal under the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 notwithstanding that there was nothing there that B would have stolen . |
| 9 | An attempt to look at the overall picture was made by the Royal Commission on Legal Services : its recommendations were widely criticised and largely ignored . |
| 10 | I have bought Practical PC since it first came out in an attempt to help with the strange world of computers and from reading it I think I might need a 286 or 386 PC — but how can I be sure and I still have n't the foggiest idea what most of the terminology means . |
| 11 | Hobson 's Imperialism is important in our context not because of its impact on the development of Marxist theories of ‘ the last stage of capitalism ’ , but as an attempt to restate for the new century the fundamental principles of Cobdenite free trade . |
| 12 | A last desperate attempt to escape into the murky waters . |
| 13 | I pull my battledress jacket over my head in a forlorn attempt to escape from the tiny tormentors ; sleep is impossible . |
| 14 | or , Thomas ( c. 1490–1555 ) , king 's printer under Henry VIII , was probably born about 1490 , since in his earliest testimony , under the surname Bercula , he named himself as printer and servant to John Rastell [ q.v. ] during the latter 's unsuccessful attempt to sail to the new world in 1517 . |
| 15 | But Michael Oppenheimer , chief scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund , described it as " mere window-dressing — an attempt to buy off the developing world " . |
| 16 | The strategies of splitting are essential for the infant 's attempt to deal with the genuine contradictions it encounters in struggling to form some image of itself and the part-objects it confronts . |
| 17 | Despite this , the SGA 1979 does make some attempt to deal with the Scottish dilemma vis à vis non-possessory security interests through the insertion of s61(4) of the 1893 Act ( now s62(4) of the 1979 Act ) , a provision specifically drafted for Scotland but which also applies to England . |
| 18 | Now do n't take that too literally , certainly in sub zero temperatures and I think the first of December and to do so would I think er have er maybe with some risk of being in 's phrase stark raving bonkers but by that you may think I mean that I think we made a fair attempt to deal with the three principle issues which have caused so much annoyance to user groups , there 's a backlog in modification orders . |
| 19 | For all Mellor 's protestations that the tabloids brought him down in an attempt to dictate to the Prime Minister who should be in his Cabinet , the truth is that the Heritage Secretary was rejected by his peers . |
| 20 | Yon Yonson married her in an evident attempt to qualify for the Irish dole . |
| 21 | Even the formulation of a dualistic class division , Laclau and Mouffe have argued persuasively , is itself nothing less than a nostalgic attempt to recreate for the nineteenth century the imagined simplicity of the conditions of the aristocracy/bourgeoisie conflict of the French Revolution which had originally inspired Hegel . |
| 22 | In his work as in the present study , there has been an attempt to mediate between the physical world of practices as a determinant material structure and constructivist analysis of the material world as inseparable from the cognitive means of its appropriation . |
| 23 | Competition within the white collar section is another nail in the coffin and an attempt to reduce to the paying conditions . |
| 24 | Public outcry over what was widely seen as an attempt to intervene in the judicial process , however , caused the party to withdraw this threat almost immediately . |
| 25 | It was his unexpected kindness that caused her jaw to clench suddenly in an attempt to stave off the hot tears scalding her eyes . |
| 26 | HP figures it has done the same against Sun Microsystems Inc at the low end , claiming Sun 's attempt to break into the commercial market is based only on price . |
| 27 | But even at this date the alteration in emphasis can only have been a conscious attempt to attune to the wider audience , if still at that time mainly within Bavaria , which was beginning to show interest in Hitler in 1923 , and an awareness that anti-Marxism had a wider potential appeal than the mere repetition of anti-Jewish paroxysms of hate . |
| 28 | l he general conclusion reached here was that any attempt to get behind the early church 's proclamation of Jesus to what Jesus himself had actually believed about himself could only be built on psychological conjecture and historical guesswork . |
| 29 | Love Hearts might be a cynical attempt to rip off the drug-obsessed rave scene , but there must be a host of other legal substances that might do the trick . |
| 30 | WHILE expensively-assembled Blackburn and Derby faltered in the Second Division promotion race , Charlton , who have no home or money to spend on players , continued their unlikely attempt to return to the First Division with a 2–1 win at FA Cup finalists Sunderland , writes Christopher Davies . |