Example sentences of "attempt [to-vb] out [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Zhores Medvedev 's attempts to spell out the injury thus caused to scientific-technical advance landed him in a mental hospital . ) |
| 2 | Illuminative evaluation An attempt to carry out an illuminative evaluation of the undergraduate information retrieval course was also made . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Rank 's attempt to carve out a niche in the American market failed because his films were too slow and talkative for transatlantic tastes . |
| 5 | Given what we now know , this is much more than the expected attempt to find out a demon 's identity , though it sounds very like it . |
| 6 | Determined to arrange a meeting to discuss it ( postponed as it has been from summer to autumn , autumn to December , December to ‘ early in the the New Year ’ and so on … ) , she rang the Scottish Office direct in an attempt to find out the proposed date of revelation and publication . |
| 7 | At the end of September 1949 , therefore , Smith was himself seconded to the BEA to work on sorting out this problem , and he was in fact to stay , in a sustained attempt to work out a better contracts system , thus further strengthening the BEA 's management of the construction programme . |
| 8 | It was social laughter , an attempt to hammer out a common weapon against despair . |
| 9 | In the following years discussions continued between the officers at the Boards and at headquarters in an attempt to sort out a practical level of detail which preserved the Authority 's control over general policy and coordination , while reserving clearly local matters to the Area Boards . |
| 10 | Scientists are studying ex-smokers , people with depression , athletes and those recovering from prolonged illness in an attempt to sort out the complicated physical and psychological cues which lead us to crave specific foods . |
| 11 | The Israeli Defence Forces ( IDF ) , moving beyond their self-declared " security zone " in southern Lebanon , entered UN-patrolled areas with tanks and troops on Feb. 15 in a widening attempt to wipe out the forces of militant Shia guerrilla organizations . |
| 12 | Temporarily withdrawing in an attempt to draw out the IRA , they returned to occupy the area for a further 36 hours ( Farrell , 1980:273 ) . |
| 13 | People close their windows at night in a vain attempt to shut out the sound of sirens and gunfire . |
| 14 | The federal government has spent $2–8 million drilling 1635 holes , injecting 122 556 tons of fly ash , and flushing 117 220 yards of sand into the burning tunnels in an attempt to put out the fire . |
| 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 | Floy had spent several hours in deep discussion with Snodgrass and , between them , they had made an attempt to sketch out the layout of Tara , so that they could see if there were any weak areas they might make use of . |
| 19 | in a recent attempt to flush out the pike , sixteen specialist anglers paid a tenner apiece to attend an all night fishing match . |
| 20 | Forgive my curiosity to see her : I prodded the ball of workers with a long stick , in a vain attempt to flush out the queen . |
| 21 | He decided to repeat the heating exercise in an attempt to force out the energy from the graphite . |
| 22 | To calculate the endurance factor , lines were drawn on the CAA half million map in an attempt to straighten out the coastline . |
| 23 | He had centre front stage , his voice projected forward over Therese 's , and he ceased to make any attempt to act out the plotted movements with her . |
| 24 | The first success disproved the thesis they ended up trying to vindicate , and they progressively discarded financial sanity in a crazy attempt to blot out the problems from their minds . |
| 25 | Like someone drowning , she fought for air , gasping and retching , covering her eyes in a futile attempt to blot out the memory of the crushed skull , the shattered features and the foul , oozing stain . |
| 26 | They interviewed teachers , headmasters , parents , chiefs and their counsellors , local farmers and final year pupils in schools in an attempt to bring out a picture of the local and school environment and of needs and aspirations of young people and adults . |
| 27 | Yet it was not an unsuccessful attempt to bring out the best in his audience . |
| 28 | Moreover , its attempts to weed out the next Barlow Clowes are not considered impressive . |
| 29 | Attempts to straighten out the Lang Lang river in Australia between 1920 and 1923 caused a series of cuts into the bank , which progressed rapidly upstream and destroyed seven bridges . |
| 30 | From ancient times , the significance of particular dates has survived centuries of attempts to stamp out the old pagan customs , and they are still popularly practised in many parts of the country . |