Example sentences of "[art] attempt [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I said , it is a pleasure to speak in the debate , despite the rhetoric and the attempt to whip up the masses outside the House by saying that the Labour party comprises anti-patriotic pacifists . |
| 2 | On stage and screen the attempt goes on to understand this end-of-the-century plague . |
| 3 | How can the Minister justify the attempt to sell off into the private sector , just a matter of weeks before a general election , what most Londoners rightly regard as the proper seat of London 's government ? |
| 4 | It seems far more important to me to provide an effective and clear demonstration of those virtues of the product that you are trying to put across than to lose the proposition in the attempt to set up a credible context for it . |
| 5 | His engineers were glad to continue with the central job they had been engaged on before : the attempt to speed up power station completion rates in undertakings they now controlled more directly . |
| 6 | Naturalism in a broader sense consists in the attempt to lay down certain fundamental aspects of the good life for man on the basis of considerations of human nature . |
| 7 | She massacred the attempt to gloss over his lateness with a stare . |
| 8 | The attempt to build up a separate National Labour Party proved a dismal failure , while the Liberal Nationals continued as pensioners of the Conservative party until finally merging with them — as the Liberal Unionists had done previously — in 1966 . |
| 9 | Only some Suwaya were interested in this exercise of reconstruction , and the attempt to build up a rounded picture of life under Arab government exposed a certain impatience . |
| 10 | There was the matter of box-office takings and in essence the drive for respectability was part of the attempt to build up larger audiences . |
| 11 | The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting his park gate … |
| 12 | The attempt to line up our thinking with what has been perceived as the most powerful of the current orthodoxies has certainly brought about a number of structural changes to the PGCE course the most important of which to affect the modern language group has undoubtedly been the decision to replace the single teaching practice in the spring term by two teaching practices , the first in the autumn and the second in the summer term . |
| 13 | In Nunn 's way of orchestrating the scene , however , the forced merriment comes across like the willed time-killing in Three Sisters , less the whiling away of a few specific minutes than the attempt to shake off a pervasive ennui . |
| 14 | The attempt to slip out unnoticed at night fails , and all but one , including Barker , are killed by the Viet Cong . |
| 15 | ERROR_RETURN_DETAIL — is a return parameter providing a report of errors encountered during the attempt to read out the package structure . |
| 16 | ERROR_RETURN_DETAIL/ — is a return parameter providing a report of the errors encountered during the attempt to read out the requested modules . |
| 17 | ERROR_RETURN_DETAIL/ — is a return parameter providing a report of the errors encountered during the attempt to read out the requested modules . |
| 18 | He 'd made no attempt to hold back as he knew there was more to come . |
| 19 | Most landlords , even bishops and abbots , made no attempt to lay out their new towns . |
| 20 | There is no attempt to zoom in on solo instruments , and indeed not signs of unwelcome engineering anywhere ; one is left with the most natural impression of a fine concert as heard from about Row S. |
| 21 | After the Second World War the coverage of the needs of the disabled became fairly comprehensive in scope , although there was no attempt to set up a single department or authority to be responsible for their needs . |
| 22 | His senses told him that Cora-Beth was as eager as he for closer intimacies , and she made no attempt to draw back when he unbuttoned her coat and felt for the soft warmth of her breasts . |
| 23 | Once more she stood gazing out over the garden , but this time everything seemed different — so different that when he took her gently into his arms it was so natural that she made no attempt to draw back . |
| 24 | It seemed that there were two incidents , and he had made no attempt to gloss over either . |
| 25 | It will be noted that there was here no attempt to carry out the balancing exercise required by article 10 and for that reason alone this decision is of little persuasive authority . |
| 26 | The pub has made no attempt to keep up with the times … no karaoke here … just conversation . |
| 27 | There is no attempt to bring about a complete switch-over . |
| 28 | He glanced at Helen as though he had never seen her in his life , and made no attempt to get up . |
| 29 | ‘ Are you coming ? ’ she asked , and when he still made no attempt to get up she said , ‘ What is it , why are you staring at me ? ’ |
| 30 | The cat made no attempt to get out . |