Example sentences of "attempt [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His first novel , Another Roadside Attraction ( 1971 ) , sets up a ludicrous adventure plot in which two ‘ heroes ’ attempt to carry the mummified remains of Jesus ( seized from t base for a whole series of chronological divergences and a parallel plot in which a zoo and hot-dog joint , together , are established as the roadside attraction to the title . |
| 2 | [ P. Seaver , The Puritan Lectureships , 1970 ; I. Calder , ‘ A Seventeenth Century Attempt to Purify the Anglican Church ’ , American Historical Review , vol. lii , 1947–8 ; P. Christianson , Reformers and Babylon , 1978 ; C. Webster , Samuel Hartlib and the Advancement of Learning , 1970 ; T. Edwards , Antapologia , 1644 . ] |
| 3 | Nor is it consistent with Coase 's ( 1937 ) attempt to define the abstract nature of the firm ( author 's emphasis ) : |
| 4 | If we pause briefly and attempt to list the possible reasons why an individual or a family might have needed parish relief in the late 18th and early 19th centuries — sickness , unemployment , the needs of one-parent families or of orphans or young children , support in times of local or national economic crisis , old age — then we have now found Titfords in every category . |
| 5 | To reach a fuller understanding of the blood differential — its origin , purpose and effect — it is necessary to dig a little deeper and attempt to trace the underlying reasons by means of a sociological/anthropological analysis — and this is what I have been attempting to do in the course of this essay . |
| 6 | Palace have won just once in the Premier League all season and could not be in worse shape to face Liverpool tonight in the Coca-Cola Cup as they attempt to exorcise the haunting memory of their 9-0 Anfield thrashing in 1989 . |
| 7 | He said staff had to be aware of and attempt to neutralise the promotional tactics used to give the impression that health-care professionals endorse products , for example the provision of free pens , mugs and calendars with company logos . |
| 8 | As Rangers attempt to win the domestic treble , and hold a 12-point lead over Celtic in the Premier Division , while harbouring notions of the European Cup , Liam Brady 's side will finish their fourth season in a row without a trophy of any description . |
| 9 | However , real problems may arise once Leinster attempt to win the loose ball . |
| 10 | In addition to the epic flight described here , James Sadler is remembered particularly for his daring but abortive , attempt to cross the Irish Sea from Dublin to England in October 1812 . |
| 11 | In a parliamentary party democracy a large part of the electoral contest is the campaign : the candidates confront each other and attempt to persuade the individual members of the electorate to cast votes in their favour . |
| 12 | If we attempt to put the wrong type of things together , or attempt separate explanations of things which are part of the same natural kind , then we are going to struggle to produce successful science . |
| 13 | Cultivations , with a two-to five-year rotation in many areas , attempt to leave the inverted turf fairly intact and are relatively shallow , to avoid exposing the loose subsoils to wind erosion . |
| 14 | In this practice there is a parallel with Dutch work , for like the 30 km/h zone experiments in Holland , though these avoid the use of sophisticated Woonerf-style street furniture , they still attempt to incorporate the infrastructural works that increase the driver 's perception of the need for slow-speed behaviour . |
| 15 | If you attempt to calculate the square root of a negative number , a " -ve root " error will occur . |
| 16 | Like all university subjects , it offers a training for the mind , but it is also one of the small number of disciplines which attempt to understand the creative impulse . |
| 17 | In kinematics the coupling of components is usually described in terms of Reuleaux pairs which attempt to describe the allowable motions between parts . |
| 18 | This factor was thought to have been a key reason for Souter 's nomination , as Bush was eager to avoid repeating the divisive — and ultimately unsuccessful — struggle for Senate endorsement which had marked Reagan 's 1987 attempt to appoint the conservative Robert Bork [ see p. 35701 ] . |
| 19 | It is important that we bear these differences in mind when we attempt to analyse the formal nature of public sector organisations . |
| 20 | We therefore attempt to hold the current program " context " in the fast accumulators as the program is executed ; since it may be difficult for a programmer or compiler to establish such a current context at each point , it has been proposed that the accumulator array be replaced by an associative store , and this is discussed in 5.5 . |
| 21 | I choose to define this tradition as labourism , and attempt to locate the Labour Party within it . |
| 22 | The best way is to decorate it with the materials found in nature , and attempt to soften the overall box shape . |
| 23 | That was undoubtedly a legacy of her childhood , she thought resignedly — a throw-back to the days when she and her mother had been forced to hold their heads high and attempt to ignore the pointing fingers . |
| 24 | Certainly , by now , we should have learned to be cautious about simplified statements which attempt to outline the central features of ‘ the family in modern society ’ . |
| 25 | Almost all UK academic libraries attempt to orientate the new user to the services and stock of the library , and there are very few orientation methods which have not been used in recent years — lectures , seminars , tours ( guided and self-guided ) , video-tapes , slide-lectures , tape-slides , programmed instruction , posters , audio-tapes , games , computer-assisted instruction , and of course library guides . |
| 26 | They , we are told , identify exactly what the customer wants and at what target price ( as one of the order-winning criteria ) and then attempt to produce the highest-quality product possible at that price . |
| 27 | If I select MS-DOS Shell and attempt to delete the unwanted directories , I get the message : ‘ You can not delete a non-empty directory … ’ but according to MS-DOS Shell the specified directory states : ‘ No files match file specifier . ’ |
| 28 | Early models , for example , made little attempt to show the dynamic forces at play between the elements , while it has always been necessary to question the basis of the model construction in order to avoid the perpetuation of a flawed assumption . |