Example sentences of "attempt [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are many busy mothers who would be delighted to see their horses being exercised , particularly during the winter when it is less easy to turn horses out ( in an attempt to preserve limited grazing ) . |
| 2 | The Movement recognised this , as it also recognised that administrative pressures were working against a concerted attempt to preserve religious unity . |
| 3 | In some places and at different times there was some resistance , at Lincoln at the end of the fourteenth century and at Southampton , where the mayor from 1488 to 1491 made an unsuccessful attempt to preserve some semblance of democracy ( 77 , pp.259–61 ) . |
| 4 | The central government also monopolizes social expenses functions of key significance for social stability , but these are administered in a rigidly bureaucratic way , without any attempt to co-opt external interests . |
| 5 | The proposals also shifted the burden for payment of sick pay from the government to the employer in an attempt to combat high absenteeism . |
| 6 | ALLIANCE leader Dr John Aderdice today met the Republic 's Opposition leaders in an attempt to breathe new life into the talks stalemate . |
| 7 | For example , although they might see the same people every night in the pub , that was not a planned attempt to see those people but an unplanned consequence of going to the pub . |
| 8 | Some of these messages are intentional — when John speaks to Bill he chooses language , makes deliberate gestures and controls the expression on his face in a conscious attempt to signal certain information and attitudes . |
| 9 | In an attempt to estimate these welfare losses , Bradford and Oates ( 1974 ) estimated a multiplicative demand function ( for local school expenditures ) . |
| 10 | Others wish to cut the umbilical cord between the Scottish party and the rest of the UK in an attempt to emphasise Scottish autonomy , and the autonomy of a future Scottish parliament . |
| 11 | The attempt to rationalize various spheres of state control through increased centralization was consistent with the Vietnamese government 's widely perceived caution concerning the pace of political reform . |
| 12 | Luciano Bartocci had been shuffling papers about noisily on his desk in an attempt to disrupt this exchange from which he was excluded . |
| 13 | The policies of autarchy represented the regime 's attempt to implement that declaration of intent . |
| 14 | Clearly no government can legislate for such a wide array of circumstances , let alone attempt to enforce such legislation . |
| 15 | The proliferation of ‘ sweated ’ workshops , and outwork had itself been in part an employer response to the closer regulation of factories during the nineteenth century , an attempt to evade these regulations . |
| 16 | But the local football authorities will protest at any attempt to transmit live football without prior consultation with them . |
| 17 | The small business systems company , which never recovered from its capricious attempt to acquire Prime Computer Inc , says it needs the bankruptcy protection to put together a plan to restructure its balance sheet . |
| 18 | The training committee was wound up by Vic Machin , the chairman and the BMC secretary Derek Walker some months ago — but they have yet to inform the committee : a clear snub to the many volunteers who banged their heads against a wall with only limited success for a dozen years in a genuine attempt to impart some credibility to the BMC 's involvement in mountain training . |
| 19 | Although these definitions are important to any attempt to compare different types of credit agreement in logic or law , they are of course a very far cry from how any consumer would define different types of credit . |
| 20 | But in any attempt to compare these institutions on an international basis there are immediate difficulties of terminology in that bodies with the same name may perform different functions . |
| 21 | THE GOVERNMENT has postponed any attempt to curb industrial action in essential services and make unions legally liable for unofficial action . |
| 22 | However , Hirsch and Leff 's attempt to replicate this study , also reported in their book ( 1975 ) , failed to find the same degree of gross communication disorder as that claimed by Singer and Wynne . |
| 23 | It can be argued that these offences may be no less traumatic for the victim than ‘ conventional ’ rape , and therefore that any attempt to classify sexual offences by reference to their seriousness should place these forms of sexual assault in the highest category . |
| 24 | I find it impossible to begin to think about the phenomena which are giving you anxiety and which , I assure you , are giving me anxiety , without some elementary attempt to classify those phenomena . |
| 25 | Running alongside this financial support has been an attempt to promote industrial cooperatives where small firms would share distribution facilities or share the production of one brand name . |
| 26 | The legitimisation in the Maastricht Treaty of the EEC 's attempt to promote this identity represents an acknowledgement of the ultimate goal which inspired it . |
| 27 | Purely an attempt to gather some confetti for a wedding in the town tomorrow . |
| 28 | Perhaps it 's an attempt to pretend that fame is worthless and spurious and all those things . |
| 29 | While in the last century there was still some attempt to embrace all people in Ireland as the Irish nation , now the nation subsists in the Irish catholic population . |
| 30 | The rapid inflation which resulted directly from the cost of financing the war raised the cost of British industry significantly , and made much more difficult the attempt to restore financial stability . |