Example sentences of "attempt [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question of economic benefits of science points to a concern with the character of the economy at the time and to the importance of considering the demise of the attempts to implement a science curriculum ‘ as practice ’ and the success of the science curriculum ‘ as fact ’ in the context of changes in Victorian capitalism . [ … ] |
| 2 | This time Wayans , a pleasing enough individual with a huge , flashing smile , attempts to carry a movie on his own . |
| 3 | The instances are the practice and the practice is the rule ; a rule is ‘ internally related ’ to its instances , and the sceptic 's attempts to plant a gap between them simply betray a misconception of what it is to follow a rule . |
| 4 | Attempts to light a fire in the glacial dining-room had to be abandoned when it smoked out the house . |
| 5 | The close relation between acid and duodenal ulceration was recognised in the early part of this century , and until recently , attempts to provide a cure for peptic ulcer disease have focused almost exclusively on the development of drugs and surgical procedures that inhibit or abolish gastric secretion , even though contemporary findings show that only 20–50% of DU patients actually secrete excessive amounts of acid . |
| 6 | The history of Western Marxism amounts to a history of attempts to provide a means for transcending the condition of alienation and achieving that lost totality , not through irony or a reified homogeneous temporality , as in Lukács ' novel , but , according to his formulation of Marxism , through history and class consciousness . |
| 7 | Attempts to establish a people 's diet at any time is very difficult without supporting documentary evidence , however , as vital evidence might he missing . |
| 8 | This has led to a series of attempts to reinscribe a place for , and a relation with , the other as other , outside the sphere of mastery and therefore , logically speaking , both infinite and beyond the scope of knowledge . |
| 9 | The company , which employs 12 people , will continue to trade as normal as administrator Jeff Cawson , from accountants BDO Binder Hamlyn , in Newcastle , attempts to find a buyer for the business . |
| 10 | His theory is in stark contrast to the biologists ' attempts to find a relationship between the prohibitions on certain types of marriage partner , and the inhibitions about having sexual contact with such classes of people . |
| 11 | As a ‘ no meaning ’ atheist , Ayer attempts to find a principle in terms of which to reject the whole business of theology as meaningless . |
| 12 | In fact , his parents discouraged Gedge , especially when they suspected it was infringing on his studies and attempts to find a job . |
| 13 | Patrice Orfilat , a fearful , whimpering wretch bearing a grudge against Thorez whom , he assumes , had prevented him from being nominated as a PCF candidate for the 1936 elections , petrified at the thought of war and his own death , attempts to find a job in the Foreign Affairs Ministry , and is ultimately disdainfully rebuffed by an orthodox party member unperturbed by the Nazi-Soviet pact . |
| 14 | A more appropriate model of academic goals , one which does not construct or require a ‘ great divide ’ between an ‘ objective ’ , written , academic language and a ‘ context-dependent ’ , oral , lay language , is offered by Godfrey Lienhardt , in his attempts to find a language for describing concepts of ‘ self ’ in different cultures . |
| 15 | Two earlier attempts to find a solution at Acas failed . |
| 16 | Attempts to find a solution having failed , Philip announced the confiscation of the duchy of Aquitaine in May 1294 . |
| 17 | Its credibility has been severely damaged and its attempts to find a solution to the problem have resulted in abject failure . |
| 18 | MULTIPLE sclerosis — a mysterious deterioration of the central nervous system — has long eluded attempts to find a cure . |
| 19 | But in an attempt to dilute a revolt , Taylor has cancelled plans for a fourth match against Canada . |
| 20 | The IRA 's campaign broadened in March 1988 with the attempt to plant a bomb in Gibraltar . |
| 21 | There may have been personal antipathy involved , although Mancini 's account reads rather like an attempt to rationalize a hostility which he could not explain — as does More 's bland assertion that women commonly hate their husband 's best friends . |
| 22 | There may have been personal antipathy involved , although Mancini 's account reads rather like an attempt to rationalize a hostility which he could not explain — as does More 's bland assertion that women commonly hate their husband 's best friends . |
| 23 | She worked strenuously to establish the Corby branch and provided courses there in an attempt to sustain a WEA presence in the then new steel town but it became inactive in the early thirties . |
| 24 | Most MTV Hollywood films are just trailers with delusions of grandeur , taking their cues from pop videos and ads in an attempt to accommodate a generation raised on channel hopping and the fast-forward button . |
| 25 | This problem is highlighted by the studies of Linton and Wagenaar which do make some attempt to sample a range of autobiographical events , both of which while showing slight memory improvements for emotional items appear to show memory impairments if the items were regarded as unpleasant . |
| 26 | The government thereby gave up the attempt to impose a solution and admitted that the people of Northern Ireland must be given an opportunity to work out for themselves how they should be governed . |
| 27 | Dunne , Chapman 's last attempt to find a successor to Lambert , proved to be past his best , but Drake more than made up for lost time , scoring 42 League goals in 1934–5 , a club record for a single season . |
| 28 | But Mr Fowler confirmed that the Government 's attempt to find a way of preventing strikes in essential services has so far failed . |
| 29 | The big bay three quarterbred was being driven hard into Artemis 's lightly framed thoroughbred , and Artemis could feel the distress signals through her hands and seat as the horse shortened its stride in a desperate attempt to find a way out . |
| 30 | Ryle ( 1949 ) is another attempt to find a way between extreme behaviourism and the mental/physical separation . |