Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] attack on " in BNC.
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| 1 | This deposited material is mainly removed by the waves so that at night , when the algae emit carbon dioxide , the ensuing greater acidity of the sea water causes a chemical attack on the rock itself and not merely the redissolving of the finely divided material precipitated during the day . |
| 2 | First , the Royal National Institute for the Blind is launching a wide-ranging attack on the government 's Student Loans Bill . |
| 3 | Launching a savage attack on the ‘ shameful ’ Budget in a cutting speech which silenced Tory backbenchers , Mr Smith said that taken together the tax increases announced in the Budget were one of the biggest hikes ever . |
| 4 | It was hardly surprising , in these circumstances , that Nicholas abandoned a hair-brained scheme for launching a direct attack on Constantinople and replaced it with Paskevich 's proposals for a Russian occupation of the Danubian Principalities , an Austrian occupation of Serbia and Herzegovina , a blockade of the Bosphorus , and an eventual Austro-Russian partition of the Ottoman Empire . |
| 5 | The campaign involved a two-pronged attack on the mining companies . |
| 6 | Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin used a live nationwide television broadcast on Feb. 19 to launch a personal attack on Gorbachev and to demand his immediate resignation . |
| 7 | He was poising himself to launch a final attack on Grant , intending to finish him off at his leisure . |
| 8 | It is highly courageous to launch a frontal attack on the main lines and the main structure of nature , and cowardly to advance by aspects and details ; art is really a battle . |
| 9 | Chief Jeremiah Gaobaeb , resplendent in a blue kaftan with gold thread , took the megaphone to launch a fierce attack on Swapo . |
| 10 | Yet neither at this stage nor for the next eighteen months did he have any clear plans to launch a full-scale attack on the church or to break with Rome . |
| 11 | In a speech in Gloucester tonight he 's expected to launch a bitter attack on the Government 's failure to deal with the current wave of crime . |
| 12 | In addition , festivals can ensure a concentrated attack on a particular site , can stimulate local employment and help to solve local planning problems ( DoE , 1983 ; O'Connell , 1986 ) . |
| 13 | The Asian countries , meeting in Bangkok a month ago , mobilised a vigorous attack on the values that they think are being imposed on them . |
| 14 | An adult , by itself , will be hard-pressed to repel a determined attack on its young , but in a massed colony , outraged parents join together and surround an intruder in a cloud , shrieking angrily , diving on it and harrying it in a continuous attack . |
| 15 | Keynesian economic management seemed unable to deal with the new phenomenon of stagflation — high inflation coupled with low growth and high unemployment — and market liberals mounted a strong attack on the welfare state as the cause of Britain 's economic problems . |
| 16 | After 1577 , the central authorities mounted a growing attack on these recusants , forcing them to abandon apparent conformity at greater cost . |
| 17 | David Evans , general secretary of the Prison Officers ' Association in England and Wales , mounted a fierce attack on ‘ the threat of contracting-out or privatisation . ’ |
| 18 | This identification was one factor which provoked a major attack on the practice of International Relations which helped usher in a new way of thinking about the subject . |
| 19 | A senior legal figure has made a strong attack on Government policy towards Scotland 's justice system . |
| 20 | Robson Rhodes has unleashed a scathing attack on the profession 's leaders , and in particular on the Big Six , for their concentration on commercial self-promotion at the expense of the auditing profession 's reputation . |
| 21 | The previous summer they had left an American flag for Broken Arm , who had been absent leading a triumphant attack on the Shoshoni . |
| 22 | In a recent book , a German scholar , Konrad Dilger , mounts a sustained attack on the Kanunname as a document of the period of Mehmed II ; and , as the Kanunname is one of the few sources of information about the ulema in the early period , his remarks deserve serious attention in the present study . |
| 23 | When a roll is continued for several bars the note must be tied over to avoid a fresh attack on the succeeding first beats : |
| 24 | Stanley and Wise ( 1983 ) mount a comprehensive attack on social-scientific ideologies of objectivity , and what they see as their patriarchal implications . |
| 25 | Steiner 's association of homosexuality with narcissism , solipsism , and the refusal of referentiality obviously suggests reservations about both modernism ( as he conceives it ) and the efficacy of the homosexual influence upon it , and it comes as no surprise that in his most recent book he launches a strong attack on the former . |
| 26 | He grins briefly , fiddling with his food , before he launches a verbal attack on Oxford 's much-maligned university students . |
| 27 | He now launches a parallel attack on the idea that individuals are by nature the sort of creatures who can come to know things through their experience of the external world . |
| 28 | In the first conflict situation the house launches a minor attack on the wife whilst possibly saving the husband from real harm . |
| 29 | He launches a detailed attack on the many aspects of scholastic teaching which had their basis in the logical works of Aristotle 's Organon . |
| 30 | So I will make a personal attack on you the day after to-morrow , when the House will be full , and I will tell you beforehand what I 'm going to say and what the right come-back is for you to score off me . |