Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] attempted [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various authors have attempted to investigate the qualities which pertain to the nature of spatial order as such ( e.g. Hillier and Hanson 1984 ) , and many others have investigated the social use of space with particular reference to architecture ( e.g. Ardener ed. 1981 ; Gilsenan 1982 : 164–214 ; King ed. 1980 ) . |
| 2 | Previous authors have attempted to convert the measured ionised calcium activity to the substance concentration of free calcium . |
| 3 | Occasionally , housing policies in local areas have attempted to restrict the sale of houses to local inhabitants . |
| 4 | The action occurred after Palestinians had attempted to prevent the soldiers arresting three men who had been painting slogans on a wall . |
| 5 | Several investigators have attempted to define the portal venous and hepatic arterial contributions to total liver blood flow by non-invasive means including ultrasound and radionuclide angiography . |
| 6 | Numerous studies have attempted to estimate the effects of membership upon a country joining the EC . |
| 7 | Previous studies have attempted to evaluate the severity of duodenogastric reflux ( DGR ) and to determine whether specific constituents of duodenal juice are responsible for symptoms . |
| 8 | A number of studies have attempted to rank the relative mobilities of the major constituents released during weathering , and although the precise order varies depending on the environmental conditions the generally agreed sequence is |
| 9 | Only a few manometric studies have attempted to characterise the motility patterns associated with mass movements . |
| 10 | In recent years the importance of the prostaglandin pathway in platelets in relation to platelet aggregation has become apparent and several studies have attempted to assess the activity of this pathway in platelets from diabetic subjects . |
| 11 | The above studies have attempted to assess the presence of circulating platelet aggregates . |
| 12 | Few studies have attempted to study the issues from the point of view of the historian . |
| 13 | The rally 's organizers claimed that the recent demonstrations by " red-brown " forces had attempted to destabilize the country in order to influence the forthcoming decision of the Constitutional Court on the Communist Party [ see p. 38923 ] . |
| 14 | No-one can accuse lawyers within the peace movement of failing to seize these opportunities , and yet despite all the energy directed towards establishing that the use — or even possession — of nuclear weapons would be illegal , and drafting treaties and campaigning for their adoption by states , few lawyers have attempted to establish the assumptions on the basis of which this activity takes place . |
| 15 | While some publishers have attempted to counter the decline in print runs for first time publications by pushing titles into paperback others have been looking for ways to revitalise their hardback sales . |
| 16 | Recent summits between the major OECD economies have attempted to coordinate the fiscal and monetary policies of countries . |
| 17 | The same may also be true of a similar approach to curriculum development , because a number of recent curriculum development projects have attempted to combine the resource advantages of the centralised project with the relevance of school-based development . |
| 18 | Most dowsers have attempted to find the patterns of earth energies at a site and have detected spirals , concentric circles and straight or sinuous lines , all of which seem to vary over time . |
| 19 | Some researchers have attempted to capture the core meaning of words by decomposing them into a small set of ’ building blocks ’ known as semantic primitives [ Wilks 1973 ] . |