Example sentences of "[art] attempt [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question of economic benefits of science points to a concern with the character of the economy at the time and to the importance of considering the demise of the attempts to implement a science curriculum ‘ as practice ’ and the success of the science curriculum ‘ as fact ’ in the context of changes in Victorian capitalism . [ … ] |
| 2 | This confusion is very apparent in most of the attempts to formulate a statement of higher education aims and policies , from the Robbins Report ( 1963 ) to the 1985 Green Paper ( DES 1985 ) . |
| 3 | Other distinctions that were drawn — between democracy and absolutism , between monarchy and republic , between Western political institutions and ‘ Oriental despotism ’ — expressed current political interests and ideological commitments ; and indeed all the attempts to construct a typology of political systems are marked to some degree by an intermingling of scientific analysis and the value judgements which arise from real political struggles . |
| 4 | On Jan. 28 this founding congress suffered a split and walkout by some 100 delegates led by Tadeusz Fiszbach , who criticized the attempt to create a successor party without a sufficiently clear break with the communist past . |
| 5 | The IRA 's campaign broadened in March 1988 with the attempt to plant a bomb in Gibraltar . |
| 6 | His fertility , narrative gift , gift for experiments and impromptus , are such as to bewilder the attempt to form a judgement of any particular work . |
| 7 | The attempt to put a stop to the moving earth stands out because it proved so tragic an aberration — a personal tragedy for Galileo and , in the long run , a tragedy for the Church , which overreached itself in securing a territory that would prove impossible to hold . |
| 8 | It abandons the attempt to detect a class struggle between exploiters and exploited within advanced capitalism . |
| 9 | The end of the First World War was accompanied by unmistakable evidence that the population of the greater part of Ireland had no intention of remaining within the United Kingdom ; and when the attempt to force a home rule constitution upon them provoked a rebellion , Britain had to recognise defeat , but insisted upon the Irish Free State accepting what was called Canadian status by recognising the King Emperor as its representative for external purposes . |
| 10 | Shaw 's book , however , did encourage Eliot to think of the modern in terms of the ancient , of ‘ creative evolution ’ , of ‘ Darwin' , ‘ biology ’ , and the ‘ ultimate questions ’ raised by ‘ the attempt to expose a panorama of human history ‘ as far as thought can reach ’ . |
| 11 | And this fascination is often in tension with the attempt to articulate a critique . |
| 12 | The most obvious example was the attempt to find a yeti on an expedition Bonington led to climb Menlungtse in the Himalaya . |
| 13 | The required discipline is provided by the attempt to complete a chart such as a flow process chart using the A.S.M.E. symbols . |
| 14 | And I am also thinking of the identification of Rahila Khan — a novelist supposedly Asian and female — as an Anglican vicar ; and of the attempt to thwart a biography by the Englishman Ian Hamilton of the American J. D. Salinger , whose novels tell the story of his life , but who does not want anyone else to do so , preferring to keep his facts to himself . |
| 15 | Most critics ' cavils concerned the attempt to shoehorn a plot around Myers ' modest premise . |
| 16 | In the attempt to calculate a country 's total output using the above methods , a number of complications arise . |
| 17 | The first of these incidents occurred with the attempt to introduce a law on adoption . |
| 18 | Whilst the cost of unemployment in terms of human misery and risk of social unrest must be considerable , the attempt to seek a remedy must not be looked at as merely a social gesture . |
| 19 | Only when the dream focuses on the attempt to make a movement is the problem apparent . |
| 20 | Tensions between local and national ( or national and supra-national ) governments are the political expression of ontological insecurity and the attempt to gain a degree of self-determination . |
| 21 | Few historians , admittedly , have sought to criticize the attempt to democratize a country so clearly and grossly racked by inequality , though most have quite reasonably stressed the unavoidable difficulties that such an attempt posed . |
| 22 | There is some support for Burke and Chinkin 's view in the remarks of Denning LJ ( as he then was ) in Lee v Showmen 's Guild of Great Britain [ 1952 ] 2 QB 329 at 342 , where he stated that a domestic tribunal must observe the principles of natural justice ; but this was in the context of being given a reasonable opportunity to meet a " charge " , in this case the attempt to expel a member from a trade union . |
| 23 | The government thereby gave up the attempt to impose a solution and admitted that the people of Northern Ireland must be given an opportunity to work out for themselves how they should be governed . |
| 24 | First it was agreed ( the meeting in this respect giving the impression of being a little behind events ) that Asquith should make no attempt to form a Government without Lloyd George and the Unionists . |
| 25 | Rossmayne made no attempt to fake a lack of understanding . |
| 26 | For some thousand years there was virtually no attempt to give a ruler an individual image . |
| 27 | ( In mid-September US Attorney Jay B. Stephens said that there would be no attempt to obtain a retrial on the 12 outstanding charges . ) |
| 28 | If , however , there is no attempt to copy a pattern , there is often more appreciation of shape in whatever is made — like the four-year-old who made a triangular shape from three strips and correctly named it , whilst another boy ( 3.9 ) named the second shape ( a square ) when he added a fourth strip to the original three . |
| 29 | Needless to say , an attempt to destroy a country 's ecosystem takes a toll in much more than trees and reedbeds , and the fact that Vietnam has any wildlife left at all may seem remarkable . |
| 30 | An attempt to move a vote of no confidence in Yeltsin was made by Boris Isayev , one of the Deputy Chairs of the Supreme Soviet , in the closing speech of the debate on Yeltsin 's report on April 1 . |