Example sentences of "[be] an [noun] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Together these two essays are an attempt to construct the theoretical basis for an alternative to positivistic scholarships , an alternative that will deal with the specifically literary properties of texts , and deal with them with the same degree of objectivity and rigour as scholarship has traditionally claimed . |
| 2 | Bill Clinton , writhing amid the dilemma that most of his election campaign has been an attempt to persuade the white middle class that he does most emphatically not speak for the poor or the coloured , announced , after much shilly-shallying , that ‘ We have refused to confront our differences … and for this neglect , we have all paid . ’ |
| 3 | Since the mid-1970s there has been an attempt to fuse the voluntaristic , militaristic , flamboyant aspects of Guevarism and Castroism with the tactical positions of more orthodox thought . |
| 4 | Cos you could sh I mean we 've got the curtains sort of left handed , it might be an idea to have the blind pull on the left hand end as well . |
| 5 | This is because there will be an opportunity to shelter the resulting " trust gains " from capital gains tax until such time as capital payments are made by the trustees to UK-resident beneficiaries ( see s97 TCGA 1992 ) . |
| 6 | There would also be an allowance to cover the additional expenses which disability inevitably incurs . |
| 7 | It would be an overstatement to interpret the 1972 Act as a planned and conscious attack on the size of the prison population . |
| 8 | It would be an oversimplification to reduce the complex ideology of the movement to the positions of a minority within it , or to assume that such a viewpoint will necessarily prevail . |
| 9 | ‘ IT USED TO BE an honour to have the local MP to dine , ’ a big Yorkshire landowner told me . |
| 10 | This explanation is suspect , because the behaviour of other types in the early periods does appear to be an attempt to imitate the dominant strategy type ; there is an attempt at reputation building . |
| 11 | Planning may be an attempt to reconcile the irreconcilable but green belt is one of the most successful all-purpose tools invented with which to try . |
| 12 | Kafka wrote that a book should be an axe to shatter the frozen sea within us ; Eliot said that we should properly ‘ find Othello or Lear frightful ’ . |
| 13 | It is an honour to follow the right hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Stepney ( Mr. Shore ) . |
| 14 | It is an honour to follow the hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills ( Mr. Shepherd ) , who is a near neighbour . |
| 15 | This is expressed in Article 12 of the Convention which is an adaptation to meet the new range of modes of service of corresponding provisions in the 1954 Convention . |
| 16 | National Youth Sunday is an opportunity to remind the young people , and older parishioners , that we all play an equally important part within the Church . |
| 17 | While it is an oversimplification to view the first decade of operation as some kind of golden age , it is fair to say that until this point the EEC had worked fairly smoothly . |
| 18 | argues that the state is an instrument to maintain the capitalist mode of production , and the other , a structuralist perspective , contends that the growth of state intervention may be generated by social and political pressures as well as the economic requirements of capitalism but that ultimately the scope for manoeuvre for the state is constrained by the requirements of the capitalist mode of production . |
| 19 | It is an attempt to preserve the special protections for public bodies contained in Order 53 while at the same time limiting the application of those protections to cases where they are necessary and suitable . |
| 20 | The notion of a " post-Creole continuum " , first put forward by De Camp ( 1971 ) , is an attempt to explain the complex linguistic situation in those places where there is a long history of native speakers of British English in contact with speakers of an English-based Creole . |
| 21 | Put simply , ‘ TFTO ’ is an attempt to illustrate the whole development of human thought and culture in a double album of quasi-classical gonzo rock ( though Yes head honcho Jon Anderson puts it a whole lot more verbosely in his very silly liner notes ) . |
| 22 | Along with the rest of the property sector , British Land 's shares have been trading at a considerable discount to its assets per share , and yesterday 's move is an attempt to close the 40 per cent gap which built up as institutions took a dimmer view of the market . |
| 23 | What we do not see , except in isolated cases such as that found in Leeds LEA , is an attempt to bring the enabling qualities of these environments into the education system . |
| 24 | It is an attempt to partition the intellectual content of a subject area so that individual elements can be mapped to recognisable and clearly defined sub-areas . |
| 25 | Every analysis of style , in our terms , is an attempt to find the artistic principles underlying a writer 's choice of language . |
| 26 | The following paragraph is an attempt to summarise the main characteristics of basic generative phonology , and recommends some further reading for those interested in learning about it properly . |
| 27 | The idea , conceived by Chancellor Helmut Kohl and endorsed last month in talks between the German leader and US president Bill Clinton , is an attempt to revive the strong transatlantic ties that existed immediately after the Second World War but which have steadily declined as that post-war generation ages . |
| 28 | Caught up in the concern to balance the power of the Commons is an attempt to recapture elements of the eighteenth-century constitution in a way that waters down the democratic side of the state machine ; caught up in the concern to secure a more independent House of Commons is an attempt to revive the pre-democratic nineteenth-century liberal constitution ; and caught up in the concern to limit parliamentary sovereignty is an attempt to limit democracy itself . |
| 29 | It is an attempt to reuse the fictional form which first reached exhaustion , that of the epistolary novel . |
| 30 | There is an urge to recapture the missing person in some way by hanging on to memories , and treasures . |