Example sentences of "[noun prp] in a attempt " in BNC.
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| 1 | GATT 's Director-General , Arthur Dunkel , meanwhile was mandated by a majority of the GATT 's 108 member countries to begin a round of shuttle diplomacy between Washington and Brussels in an attempt to avert a transatlantic trade war . |
| 2 | The government begins two days of negotiations today with Inkatha in an attempt to persuade the touchy Zulu leader that the ANC-government pact is not designed to exclude other smaller parties . |
| 3 | He was accorded this title in March at a meeting in Islamabad of nine warring factions called by Pakistan in an attempt to bring peace to the country . |
| 4 | Union representatives at the plant have called for the reconvening of a meeting with the Scottish industry minister , Allan Stewart , whom they met last Friday in an attempt to win government backing for their fight against the redundancies . |
| 5 | In 1619 William joined Pavier in an attempt to publish plays by and attributed to Shakespeare , apparently intending to sell them in sets of nine volumes . |
| 6 | The early settlers brought vines to Madeira and , according to tradition , Prince Henry the Navigator introduced the superior vine , Malvasia candida , into the island from Crete in an attempt to capture the trade in sweet wines from the Genoese and Venetians . |
| 7 | Palestinian activists affiliated with PLO chair Yassir Arafat 's Fatah faction had reportedly adopted a strongly anti-Iraqi line , a move which had prompted the Iraqi leadership to deploy guerrillas from the Arab Liberation Front ( ALF ) and the Palestine Liberation Front ( PLF ) in Kuwait in an attempt to control the Palestinian community . |
| 8 | JERUSALEM — The US Secretary of State , James Baker , has invited the Israeli and Egyptian foreign ministers to Washington in an attempt to break a stalemate in the Middle East peace process . |
| 9 | Then in December 1971 the Smithsonian Conference was convened in Washington in an attempt to reach agreement , on a multilateral basis , for some new arrangement to perpetuate the adjustable peg system . |
| 10 | By July , the Germans had swept through Belgium , the Netherlands and France , and the Battle of Britain was under way , with the Luftwaffe flying across Kent and East Anglia in an attempt to reach London and other major cities . |
| 11 | The UK narrowly failed in late January in an attempt to win international approval for its policy of involuntary repatriation of the Vietnamese " boat people " in Hong Kong . |
| 12 | Borland International Inc chief executive officer Phillipe Kahn told InformationWeek that Computer Associates wined and dined Novell Inc boss Ray Noorda in an attempt to acquire the company . |
| 13 | Borland International Inc chief executive officer Phillipe Kahn told InformationWeek that Computer Associates International Inc wined and dined Novell Inc boss Ray Noorda in an attempt to acquire the NetWare company : Kahn said Noorda quoted an inflated price and chief Computer Associate Charles Wang and executive vice-president Sanjay Kumar stormed away from the table ; the Islandia , New York company has also try to get Borland , Kahn said , going so far as to threaten a hostile takeover bid for the company . |
| 14 | Ganev and the UDF had been angered by some documents leaked in late February in an attempt to smear him , and had demanded that the secret services by placed under the control of the Interior Ministry rather than the Presidency as at present . |
| 15 | Working for Patients aims to further introduce market forces into the NHS in an attempt to achieve its stated objectives of better healthcare and choice for patients and greater satisfaction and rewards for those who successfully respond to local needs and preferences . |
| 16 | Early in 1991 he called on Arabs and Muslims to persuade the Allies to declare a cease-fire ; in July he saw both Tareq Aziz and President Mubarak in an attempt to intercede ; and in the following month his efforts continued , in what was described as a ‘ last-ditch mediation effort ’ . |
| 17 | After Power Behind the Throne , the powers-that-be in Middenheim might well send the adventurers off to Castle Drachenfels in an attempt to get them out of the way — if they should chance to die in the Castle , their embarrassing knowledge will die with them . |
| 18 | Now , the world 's most intensive investigation into the effects of disorders such as anorexia nervosa is about to begin in Scotland in an attempt to find out what can be done to help . |
| 19 | An office was opened in Nairobi in an attempt to sell advertising time to commercial companies operating from there , and a London representative was later appointed for the same purpose . |
| 20 | After the elections charges were levelled that the federal government had intervened secretly on behalf of USNO in an attempt to undermine Kitangan . |
| 21 | This had mainly centred on Gen. Chaovalit Yongchaiyut , the Army Commander-in-Chief , since according to some sources Chatichai had invited Chaovalit to join the Cabinet in late December in an attempt to boost the stability of his six-party coalition . |
| 22 | However , in 1933–34 , and although the circumstances were quite different , the university college at Hull used the Cambridge Board 's exceptional arrangement in Bedfordshire in an attempt to exercise Chapter III providing powers in East Yorkshire . |
| 23 | In Dublin today Charlton will send out the Republic against Northern Ireland in an attempt to take the points that would virtually ensure participation in the World Cup finals next summer in Italy , a feat guaranteed to consolidate his status as a modern Irish hero . |
| 24 | The following Monday we met at Downing Street in an attempt to sort it all out . |
| 25 | In June 1936 , Jacques met Morris in an attempt to explain the ways in which the Cambridge Board and the District were co-operating over the provision of adult education in an attempt to persuade the LEA to increase its annual grant , then a mere £20 . |
| 26 | And he has quite forgotten his past until , during a London visit to his erstwhile playmate , the 92-year-old ‘ Grandma Wendy ’ ( Maggie Smith ) , Hook ( Dustin Hoffman ) spirits Banning 's children away to Neverland in an attempt to lure his old adversary back . |
| 27 | And he has quite forgotten his past until , during a London visit to his erstwhile playmate , the 92-year-old ‘ Grandma Wendy ’ ( Maggie Smith ) , Hook ( Dustin Hoffman ) spirits Banning 's children away to Neverland in an attempt to lure his old adversary back . |
| 28 | UN aid officials said yesterday they were prepared for a battle of wills with rebel Serbs in an attempt to get trucks loaded with emergency supplies through to starving Muslims in eastern Bosnia . |
| 29 | I could not resist a walk around the Harbour at Castlebay in an attempt to resurrect memories of my visit in 1973 as a Business Development Officer . |
| 30 | The United States and the UN began airlifting food and other essential items to Angola in October in an attempt to avert a food crisis among demobilized government soldiers and guerrillas from the rebel National Union for the Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA ) . |