Example sentences of "[verb] attempted the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has attempted the procedure twice . |
| 2 | The sociologist Scheff is probably the social scientist who has attempted the most thoroughgoing analysis of catharsis in social life . |
| 3 | If you are working through this book in a systematic manner , you will already have attempted the Dubbingtons case and compared your response with our suggested ‘ answer ’ at the back of the book . |
| 4 | But at least you will have attempted the required number of questions . |
| 5 | Some Viennese and Italian builders appear to have attempted the impossible . |
| 6 | On Aug. 26 Spain deported 195 North Africans , nearly all of them Moroccans , who had attempted the crossing from the Spanish enclave of Melilla , bordering Morocco , to Almeria in mainland Spain , in a 15-metre motor boat . |
| 7 | But for all the craft of Leishman and others who have attempted the re-creation of Classical syllabic metres , an English mimicry of Latin echoing Greek is not easily sustained . |