Example sentences of "[noun] attempts [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The course attempts to place the study of cultures in a British , European , and wider international perspective .
2 The technique attempts to separate the data structure from the functions for which the data may be used .
3 The course writer attempts to cover the experience of the native speaker in about 2000 hours of learning .
4 This review attempts to catalogue the mechanisms available to such firms in their efforts to reduce risk , ensure payment and secure adequate finance .
5 Wheelbarrow attempts to pull the bag from the hole , but it is too heavy .
6 Additionally , the research attempts to disentangle the impact on industrial recovery of other factors , in particular the stimulus provided by increased competitiveness due to the fall in sterling 's effective exchange rate .
7 The research attempts to assess the nature and extent of black progress in recent years in light of these issues .
8 The research attempts to investigate the benefits and disadvantages of such arrangements for the partners concerned .
9 The research attempts to provide an answer to this question by means of a blanket survey of all manufacturing establishments in the industry with a follow-up in depth interview survey of selected case studies .
10 The research attempts to bring an understanding of the contemporary British training infrastructure to an examination of the reconstruction of skill in the context of a changing labour market .
11 The bulk of the research will be carried out at the Public Record Office , looking at the internal workings of the policy-making machine , though also with an awareness of the theoretical issues which are raised by the pioneer attempts to manage the economy in this period .
12 This study attempts to assess the impact of general management on a sample of NHS health authorities .
13 This study attempts to identify the changes that have occurred in South Wales business and industrial structure over the past 20 years , and to determine the effects of these changes on demand for industrial materials handling equipment .
14 As the marble attempts to surmount the obstacle it looses speed .
15 It will also affect the manner in which the coach attempts to motivate the sportsman , the light in which he analyses his performances and tries to improve them and more basically , the very nature of his personal relationship with his protêgê .
16 Italo Calvino 's last complete book , Mr Palomar ( 1985 ) , opens to the movement of waves and the look of a solitary observer whose gaze attempts to follow the progress of one single wave in its passage , separated and isolated from that of all the others , from open sea to shore .
17 Company behaviour must then be understood as the outcome of a continuous bargaining process whereby management attempts to meet the demands of the various interests within the organisation .
18 Wherever possible the Institute attempts to keep the amount of correspondence to a minimum .
19 If the vendor attempts to avoid a balancing charge in respect of an industrial building by granting a long lease at a premium out of the " relevant interest " which he owns , Newco will not be entitled to industrial buildings allowances on the premium ( see s20 Capital Allowances Act 1990 ) .
20 This simplistic anti fascist emphasis attempts to mobilize the memory of earlier encounters with the fascism of Hitler and Mussolini .
21 The Video-wall presentation attempts to give an impression of what actually happened over those 18 tumultuous days between the reading of the Proclamation and the execution of James Connolly .
22 Tradition criticism attempts to trace the development of a biblical story or tradition from the time it was first told to the time it was written down .
23 When a person attempts to achieve a goal we refer to the behavioural outcome as ‘ motivation ’ .
24 Through consenting a person attempts to fashion the shape of his moral world .
25 Other distraction displays , of a completely different nature , are those in which the displayer attempts to distract the attacker from itself .
26 Equally , when the social anthropologist attempts to assess the impact of socially enjoined behaviour or beliefs on the inner feelings of the people he studies , he likewise trespasses upon the psychiatrist 's ( and psychologist 's ) territory .
27 This paper attempts to address the question .
28 Al-Mathami 's method attempts to maximise the chance that its predictions will be correct .
29 One method attempts to compare the structures of teeth or limbs or some other feature of the extinct animal with living analogues .
30 Return on capital attempts to measure the efficiency or otherwise with which directors use the funds entrusted to them : while employment is a rather important measure of companies ' progress which tends to be overlooked in conventional financial circles .
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