Example sentences of "[conj] attempting [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such theories lead logically to leaving older people alone rather than attempting to improve the quality of their lives through continued social engagement . |
| 2 | And this means that rather than attempting to answer the question " What are experiences ? " , in the manner of the conventional " philosophy of mind " , we ought to concentrate our attention on the question " How do experiences occur ? " , and analyse them qua types of evidential events . |
| 3 | Rather than attempting to define the nature of the " humane education " thus envisaged , Leavis merely asserts that " It seems better simply to point to English literature , which is unquestionably and producibly " there " , and to suggest that the " literary tradition " that this unquestionable existence justifies us in speaking of might … be called a vague concept . " |
| 4 | Mark Allen , aged 23 , of Stockwell , south London , had been acquitted at the Old Bailey on Thursday of murdering Victor Johnson , 57 , and his wife Audrey , 54 , but convicted of manslaughter , incitement to arson and attempting to pervert the course of justice . |
| 5 | Yesterday Lamont , of Kensington Road , Middlesbrough , appeared before Teesside Crown Court and admitted criminal damage and attempting to pervert the course of justice by giving the police a false name when arrested . |
| 6 | The trial opened on Jan. 9 of 14 senior military officers , including five major-generals , facing charges of mutiny and attempting to overthrow the government by force . |
| 7 | Monitoring and attempting to prevent the pollution will cost millions over the next few years and will be passed directly to the consumer as an unforseen expense . |
| 8 | The best that was on offer from the National Refugee Service in New York was cooperation to ‘ get in touch with American relatives and affiants and attempting to secure the steamship fare , or as much of it as possible , from them ’ . |
| 9 | The programme of education reforms currently being introduced by the British Government requires all state maintained schools to introduce more or less simultaneously several major innovations , together with any changes initiated by LEAs and by the schools , while attempting to maintain the quality of their ongoing work . |
| 10 | While attempting to make the wheelchair or baby-buggy pusher 's life easier , planners often do not help by making ramps up and over steps too steep for any but the most fearless . |
| 11 | Post-graduate student Matthew Walsh , 22 , from Swindon , Wilts , fell while attempting to climb the north face of Mont Blanc on Tuesday — two years after his girlfriend Katy Choules was killed while climbing in America . |
| 12 | Noseir was shot and seriously injured by a US Postal Service police officer whilst attempting to escape the scene . |
| 13 | Barman Mike Wheeler slipped whilst attempting to catch the picture , badly slashing his wrist on the broken glass and at the same time dropping his lighted cigarette into a box of Buxtons Tripe and Strawberry Flavoured Crisps . |
| 14 | If this value has permeated even the discourse of fascist ideologists , then its importance should not be underestimated when attempting to understand the ideology of modern racism . |
| 15 | Transhumance needs to be acknowledged as a factor when attempting to understand the functioning of any settlement or parish under study . |
| 16 | When attempting to specify the market attractiveness of strategic options , the finance theorist may find it even more difficult to use his conventional CAPM approach for determining a particular divisional beta and cost of capital using historic relationships . |
| 17 | The solution in the finite horizon case is not entirely general because of the endpoint problems which arise when attempting to solve the relation ( 7 ) for a sequence Ct . |
| 18 | As well as attempting to limit the work of married women , policies to protect motherhood and enhance the welfare of children extended the direct surveillance of working class women in their homes . |