Example sentences of "attempt [to-vb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This research attempts to provide the first detailed study of the formation of the modern medical profession within the context of local communities . |
| 2 | What emerges from an attempt to answer the last question is that the known low-cost reserves will have been significantly run down by 2025 , but total reserves are large , sufficient to last for more than 400 years at present rates of consumption , according to one estimate . |
| 3 | The one major attempt to apply the Third period model in Latin America , in El Salvador in 1932 ( where the Comintern operated through International Red Aid ) , was quickly and brutally suppressed by a massacre of over 30,000 people . |
| 4 | The Comintern 's aim was to convert a nationalist struggle into a broader social struggle ( in accordance with part of its remit ) , but Comintern officials made no serious attempt to fulfil the second part of the resolutions adopted at the Sixth Congress by setting up a Communist party in Nicaragua , which could have given the Sandinista movement an organisational base and therefore the possibility of continuity ( Cerdas Cruz : 1986a , pp. 363–97 ) . |
| 5 | It was Fischer 's fifth attempt to get the 10th win needed to clinch the series . |
| 6 | The bad weather has also forced Rebecca Stephens to delay her attempt to become the first British woman to climb Everest . |
| 7 | Lack of early-season form undermined their attempts to reach the last eight of the Benson & Hedges Cup , and in the Refuge League they were inconsistent . |
| 8 | After 4 attempts to play the 5th round tie , the match with Hythe eventually went ahead last night , ending in a one all draw , so Abingdon face a trip to the Kent Coast on Monday at 7.30 . |
| 9 | The following study attempts to avoid the first problem by increasing the data available for the calculation of ROC curves and to address the second problem by using a much more varied selection of stimuli . |
| 10 | Any attempts to explain the first map without the controls indicated on the second would be nonsensical . |
| 11 | Kate and Tom Ballard will be four and six respectively by the time their mother , Alison Hargreaves , attempts to become the first British woman to ascend Everest ; by next August they should be used to life in the British Mount Everest Medical Expedition base camp . |
| 12 | Tom ( left ) will be six and Kate ( right ) four by the time next year when Alison , as part of the British Mount Everest Medical Expedition , attempts to become the first British woman to ascend Everest . |