Example sentences of "attempt [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in an attempt to dilute a revolt , Taylor has cancelled plans for a fourth match against Canada . |
| 2 | The IRA 's campaign broadened in March 1988 with the attempt to plant a bomb in Gibraltar . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But Mr Fowler confirmed that the Government 's attempt to find a way of preventing strikes in essential services has so far failed . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Ryle ( 1949 ) is another attempt to find a way between extreme behaviourism and the mental/physical separation . |
| 13 | The most obvious example was the attempt to find a yeti on an expedition Bonington led to climb Menlungtse in the Himalaya . |
| 14 | In photographic terms , this is called backlighting , and the camcorder 's attempt to find a compromise setting generally results in the under-exposure of the foreground , though some machines have metering systems which are sufficiently sophisticated to avoid the worst effects of this . |
| 15 | There has been an attempt to find a consensus . |
| 16 | This section should be an attempt to find a position which might be attained , albeit not without some difficulty , and neither only a slight improvement on the existing situation nor hopelessly out of reach . |
| 17 | The interesting thing about this — in my experience the first ever co-ordinated attempt to find a target — was that despite the assurance of all the enthusiasts to the scheme ( one Plt Off Leonard Cheshire included ) that the run was made with great care , not one of a dozen or more taking part in this quite unofficial experiment claimed to have ever seen one of the other 's flares or Very lights . |
| 18 | Like art , religion is an imaginative and creative attempt to find a meaning and value in human life . |
| 19 | It was originally invented in the late 1960s in an attempt to find a theory to describe the strong force . |
| 20 | In an attempt to find a model of the universe in which many different initial configurations could have evolved to something like the present universe , a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Alan Guth , suggested that the early universe might have gone through a period of very rapid expansion . |
| 21 | The criteria for allocation had been devised in an attempt to find a balance between having too many languages to do justice to any of them in limited broadcasting hours and discovering which languages were comprehensible to the largest number . |
| 22 | At the beginning of October , William Whitelaw , Secretary of State for Northern Ireland , began to hold regular meetings of certain Unionists , Alliance , and SDLP , in an attempt to find a basis upon which a Northern Ireland Executive could be established . |
| 23 | SURGEONS will meet in France next week in an attempt to find a cure for a little girl who faces death ten times daily . |
| 24 | It is an attempt to find a form of words around which people of different views can unite . |
| 25 | In some cases girls end up with many sexual partners in their attempt to find a partner who can satisfy them . |
| 26 | The notion of pastiche is now a guiding thread in critical discourse , to the extent that Palandri 's novel can be put forward as ‘ a disturbing attempt to write a kitsch novel ’ ( De Michelis 1986a ) , and the argument be made — — referring to Piersanti 's Charles — that no novelist born in the 1950s can return to ‘ traditional narrative ’ without being aware that he/she is ‘ holding an old toy which might look fine in an antique shop , or might be an ornament or a collector 's item , but is no good for playing with any more ’ ; if they do use it ( but why should they if it is no use any more ? ) , it is with a mixture of pleasure and melancholy , ‘ like someone repeating a game which once gave pleasure for years and years and now gives none , only the memory of the joy it once gave ’ ( De Michelis 1986b ) . |
| 27 | In 1955 Khrushchev and Bulganin made a visit to Belgrade in an attempt to secure a reconciliation , and the following year a Soviet-Yugoslav communiqué was signed in Moscow which brought the dispute to an end . |
| 28 | On the other hand , there is evidence in the fifteenth century of town building of both domestic and commercial property , which was clearly a speculative attempt to secure a profit , so there must have been advantages to be gained from this . |
| 29 | But analysts recalled that Mr Parra had spent the two weeks before the talks touring member states in an attempt to secure a deal that would remove at least 1 million bpd from the oil market as demand falls with the onset of warmer One analyst said that the delay in reaching agreement had unsettled the market . |
| 30 | I am not entirely convinced by Creamer 's attempt to provoke a reassessment through formal devices ; the female image is trapped within layers of muted , glazed oil paint , while a neutral , opaque band at the base of the canvas reinforces the distance between subject and viewer . |