Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] attempted [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in this spirit that I have attempted to analyse the technical-legal issues surrounding the debate about the illegality of nuclear weapons . |
| 2 | I have attempted to take the possibilities and practice of engineering to absurd lengths . |
| 3 | I have attempted to terminate the additional smoking breaks and to bring Chesser House into line with Regional Headquarters and Regional Chambers , and where necessary have special arrangements for individuals . |
| 4 | And it is not insignificant that the quarterly of which he is the editor is the first British journal which has attempted to relate the British mind to the total European mind ; that has attempted a rational synthesis of the traditions of Roman culture ; that has , in a word , contemplated order . |
| 5 | Soil geography has also had a well established legacy of soil maps which have attempted to relate the one extreme of detailed soil survey to the other of a world distribution . |
| 6 | In Britain there have been a number of different community dementia studies conducted in a diverse number of locations including Liverpool , Nottingham , Melton Mowbray and Newcastle , which have attempted to establish the prevalence of dementia among older people . |
| 7 | Several newspapers became independent , including Izvestiya , where staff dismissed editor Nikolai Yefimov , who had attempted to force the newspaper to act in support of the SCSE . |
| 8 | On Aug. 13 President Lech Walesa warned Polish workers against " unrealistic demands " , and denounced union leaders who had attempted to compare the present situation in the country with that of August 1980 . |
| 9 | On Aug. 13 President Lech Walesa warned Polish workers against " unrealistic demands " , and denounced union leaders who had attempted to compare the present situation in the country with that of August 1980 . |
| 10 | But the eyewitness who reported the scene noted that all could see from his face that he was greatly irritated by the French counsellor who had attempted to alter the terms of his homage and exact a fealty oath . |
| 11 | You have attempted to map the same LIFESPAN user onto more than one relational database user . |
| 12 | ‘ We have attempted to translate the report we requested from the French , but because of our linguistic inability it has n't made complete sense , ’ Edward Jones , the acting secretary of the WRU , said . |
| 13 | The interview that follows was undertaken in informal circumstances and we have attempted to retain the atmosphere of the original transcript of our taped conversation . |
| 14 | In this report , we have attempted to define the role of γ-interferon in intestinal immunopathology by enumerating γ-interferon producing lymphocytes in paraffin embedded sections of normal and coeliac disease intestine using an immunohistochemical technique . |
| 15 | Since the course was set up , we have attempted to combine the service and academic elements introduced above . |
| 16 | Rather than use an arbitrary measure of commission costs ( since these can vary according to the exact size of the deal and the market makers spread ) we have attempted to capture the competitive effects associated with changes in transactions costs by using a measure of turnover on the UK Stock Exchange . |
| 17 | Thus I claim that for decades we have attempted to change the nature of the art in order to meet the requirements of child-centred education — and have felt guilty because it does not work . |
| 18 | Rather we have attempted to show the potential of analysis and technical studies to increase our knowledge of the past . |
| 19 | They have attempted to use the survey figures to counteract fear of crime . |
| 20 | It has attempted to weave the mythology of historical liberation struggles with the martyrdom of its own guerrilla fighters of the 1960s and 1970s to create an unbroken thread of radical revolutionary tradition in Latin America . |
| 21 | Since the early 1970s it has attempted to raise the level of the less developed republics and provinces ( Bosnia and Herzegovina , Montenegro , Kosovo , and Macedonia ) by heavily subsidized loans from a special fund financed by the other republics and provinces , in 1987 at the rate of 1.56 per cent of their social product . |