Example sentences of "[adj] attempt [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After this encounter Einstein gave up his specific attempts to undermine the uncertainty principle . |
| 2 | Some of the last-gasp attempts to save the Nationalist governments that were considered in Washington — with the wilder arpeggios such as encouraging the fragmentation of China or even , apparently , a series of punitive air strikes against the Chinese communists ( not to mention the sheer fantasy of creating ten new Chinese armies in six months ) — originated in the Far Eastern division of the State Department , and in fact the Administration , says Blum , had come close to re-intervention in the Chinese civil war on the mainland , but backed away at the last minute when it discovered that there was no viable force left to support . |
| 3 | The UDA made some half-hearted attempts to block the roads but they were unpopular enough for the RUC to have little trouble in shifting them . |
| 4 | Much of the night passed in vain attempts to open the tomb , but an appeal to the saint herself worked wonders ( a common feature of such tales ) , and the party made for its ships with the precious plunder . |
| 5 | Dr Neil made vain attempts to stifle the bleeding , his own face now as grey as the bedlinen had been before it turned red . |
| 6 | Stuart Weir reports on Tory and Labour attempts to win the argument over constitutional reform |
| 7 | But the news overshadowed Labour attempts to make the economy the centrepiece of their conference attacks on the government . |
| 8 | He pulled at the starting device , a coil of plastic-covered wire that snapped obediently back into position after each attempt to engage the engine . |
| 9 | From the independent design house of Munro & Tutty come the designs , with their primary colours , that attempt to recreate the effects of lazy hot summers , and an adjunct , ‘ Country Diary ’ wish to echo those long hot days and bountiful harvests . |
| 10 | This is an anti- inflationary attempt to regulate the economy in conditions of monopoly and where there is an absence of competition . |
| 11 | Fifi was back at the bars and stretching out her hand in a vain attempt to reach the steel tray . |
| 12 | Beatrice Webb 's admiration for the philanthropic work of Mary Booth rested on the way in which the latter expressed ‘ gentle and loving contempt for any special work outside the ordinary sphere of a woman 's life , [ and ] her high standard of excellence which should discourage any vain attempt to leave the beaten track of a woman 's duty ’ . |
| 13 | The Secretary of the Cabinet , Sir Robert Armstrong , who had stonewalled successfully on Mrs Thatcher 's behalf during the Westland inquiries , was sent to Australia in a vain attempt to stop the book being published there . |
| 14 | The Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust was formed in 1974 when Shirley Nolan founded the Bone Marrow Register in a vain attempt to save the life of her young son Anthony . |
| 15 | Was not ‘ cushion ’ the term which eventually became vogue for the extra help which was thrown over the poll tax time and again in a vain attempt to douse the flames of dissent . |
| 16 | After gobbling up whatever I could find in the house , I crept into bed and pulled the blankets over my head in a vain attempt to stifle the mocking voices and shut out the ugly visions . |
| 17 | But all the stamping and cheering in the Empress ballroom might almost have been a vain attempt to muffle the sound of hats flopping intermittently into the leadership ring . |
| 18 | Curling his toes in a vain attempt to frustrate the inhospitable lino , Mungo watched , fascinated . |
| 19 | However , the blood-tests for syphilis are regarded in a different light , and prolonged courses of treatment may be prescribed , sometimes spanning several years , in a vain attempt to clear the blood of evidence of past syphilitic infection . |
| 20 | There were men clustered in it , and they ducked in a vain attempt to avoid the sweeping mayhem of the laden spar . |
| 21 | A groundsman ran on to the course waving his arms in a vain attempt to head the horse off but Heraldic was panicking even more now . |
| 22 | The Gann Report received qualified approval from the colleges , though in many quarters regret was expressed that it had not taken the opportunity to recommend a single validating body for all courses in art and design , and not just non-advanced ones , and that its proposal for two different types of courses was ‘ elitist ’ and a vain attempt to separate the sheep from the goats . |
| 23 | THE Government faces another ambush over the Maastricht bill after a Labour attempt to resurrect the controversial debate on the social chapter . |
| 24 | It was seen as a " literal attempt to apply the Christian ethic to industrial civilisation " . |
| 25 | After the rising of 1715 the British government had made a somewhat half-hearted attempt to tame the Highlands . |
| 26 | He came to life and made a half-hearted attempt to mop the milk up with his handkerchief . |
| 27 | She glanced through the window in a half-hearted attempt to tell the hour . |
| 28 | ‘ They ( the reforms ) have been cobbled together too quickly and with too little attention paid to genuine consultation , too little attempt to build the necessary consensus . ’ |
| 29 | According to an Interfax report an Azerbaijani attempt to cut the Lachin corridor [ see p. 39109 ] was repulsed on Oct. 4 . |
| 30 | The Allied attempt to force the passage of the Dardanelles with capital ships on 18 March could well have succeeded , had it not been for a seemingly insignificant event . |