Example sentences of "it [prep] an attempt " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some historians now view it as an attempt by the state to exercise more effective though subtle control over the lower classes . |
| 2 | A good way to understand The Lord of the Rings in its full complexity is to see it as an attempt to reconcile two views of evil , both old , both authoritative , both living , each seemingly contradicted by the other . |
| 3 | But it is also possible to see it as an attempt to formulate the way in which the sliding incompatibility of the two can only be perceived through an ‘ internal distantiation ’ in which the problem of that ‘ relation ’ is enacted by its relation , in the sense of the telling of a story — which is how we get history . |
| 4 | There seems at this point to be disagreement among the regulationists , with some hypothesizing that the decentralization within Britain was the beginning of a new phase of ( neo-Fordist ) accumulation ( Aglietta , 1979 ; Dunford , Geddes and Perrons , 1981 ) , while others ( Martin , 1988 ; Marshall , 1987 ) clearly see it as an attempt to use geographical restructuring to prolong the life of Fordism . |
| 5 | It is easier to understand it as an attempt to move away from something already characteristic of the community than as an attempt to move towards some outside idealization ( compare my comments on avoidance of stigma in Chapter 2.6 , above ) . |
| 6 | I found something a shade patronizing in her attitude , and I interpreted it as an attempt to upstage me ; perhaps to test me , to see if I was worth playing against . |
| 7 | No group claimed responsibility , but Jan Urban , a leading figure in Civic Forum , described it as an attempt to disrupt the elections , and blamed former members of the Statni Bezpecnost ( StB — State Security or secret police ) , which had been abolished on Feb. 1 [ see p. 37255 ] . |
| 8 | Manoon 's rehabilitation had enraged Class 5 graduates from Chulachomklao ( led by the current Army C.-in-C. , Gen. Suchinda Kraprayoon ) who regarded it as an attempt to reduce their position of dominance . |
| 9 | Efforts to merge the country with Libya [ see pp. 37367 ; 37703 ] were treated with great scepticism by analysts of the region , who interpreted it as an attempt by the regime to end its isolation from the mainstream of the Arab world . |
| 10 | Opposition parties , which refused to participate after the FMLN and the Permanent Committee for National Debate ( CPDN ) were prevented by riot police from joining the demonstration , described it as an attempt to prolong the war . |
| 11 | ICI had worked on it in an attempt to make motor fuel from coal , a project with which Fawcett had been involved . |
| 12 | Then Thomson bought The Times late in 1966 and poured resources into it in an attempt to make it profitable . |
| 13 | If you must get into a dilemma then charge further into it in an attempt to gain control of your destiny once again . |