Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] that any attempt " in BNC.
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| 1 | Winding up the debate , President Gorbachev warned that any attempt to amend the proposals would spell rejection of the whole programme . |
| 2 | Mr Mullin said that any attempt to persuade clubs to end discrimination by blocking their entitlement to rates relief was illegal . |
| 3 | Armenian nationalist leaders warned that any attempt by troops to disarm the militias operating there might produce a bloodbath . |
| 4 | Hard line General Menendez was commanding the troops on the Falklands , while Thatcher said that any attempt to breach the blockade would mean hostilities . |
| 5 | There are no indications from Berry ( No. 2 ) that this was contemplated and considerable reason to think that any attempt to have done so would have been futile . |
| 6 | In an 1879 article , the eminent lawyer , journalist and essayist Walter Bagehot agreed that any attempt by women to escape what he regarded as their biological destiny was anti-evolutionary . |
| 7 | Speaking at a rally on " Shaka Day " ( celebrating a Zulu hero ) , and brandishing a number of " traditional " weapons , Buthelezi declared that any attempt by the government to disarm Inkatha would be defied and that fencing around migrant worker hostels , largely Inkatha strongholds , would be destroyed . |
| 8 | ‘ If a driver knows that any attempt to overtake the car ahead of him will risk a fine or disqualification , then he will not try , ’ the Austrian said . |
| 9 | Despite the failure of the old classical writers to form a coherent set of policy prescriptions , their view remained that any attempt to reduce general unemployment must have as its cornerstone policies which would reduce real wages . |