Example sentences of "attempt [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foucault specifies the difference between them by contrasting their relation to the document : the historians of total history have been engaged above all in the interpretation of documents , attempting to reconstitute the past , to give it an inner meaning ( always available only to the historian ) , to recover a voice and allow it to speak . |
| 2 | If ‘ mentioned-in-the-text ’ is taken as the basis for selection of discourse subjects , it should be noted that the analyst is , in fact , attempting to reconstitute the presupposition pool which the participants must have had prior to the discourse fragment being analysed . |
| 3 | Inside , about 12 demonstrators , believed to be National Front members , were ejected by police after attempting to disrupt the meeting . |
| 4 | Attempting to disrupt the election , the Maoist Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ) guerrillas called " armed strikes " which were , however , only partially observed in the Andean highlands . |
| 5 | As general election campaigns got under way Andreotti on March 18 issued a communiqué to Italy 's 92 civil governors warning that certain forces were attempting to disrupt the electoral process . |
| 6 | He accused the USA of attempting to strip Arabs of their military strength to force them to give in to Israeli demands in the Middle East peace negotiations . |
| 7 | ‘ Here in the US Procter & Gamble is attempting to silence us using the power of the dollar . ’ |
| 8 | BSDI , an alleged spin-off of UC Berkeley 's Computer Sciences Research Group , author of the famous Berkeley code , is attempting to commercialise a 386 operating system called BSD/386 based on the university 's Network Release 2 . |
| 9 | Any time spent in doing other things than attempting to transmit the meme may be regarded as time wasted from the meme 's point of view . |
| 10 | The British forthwith addressed themselves to attempting to cope with the axiom nearer home . |
| 11 | Similarly , the English levies attempting to cope with the raiders of 1009 – 12 are criticised for never being in the right place , but again without further explanation . |
| 12 | And yesterday , Kevin Larkin revealed how he and his family are attempting to cope with their loss . |
| 13 | Goodricke succeeded as fifth baronet 21 July 1738 ; left with an encumbered estate , he spent some difficult years in attempting to restore the family fortune . |
| 14 | Retrieving a comb from her bag , she was seated by the fire , attempting to restore order to her hair , when she heard Travis come back . |
| 15 | The Barbarians are in Middlesbrough till August attempting to restore their lost reputation . |
| 16 | These modern versions of Marxism are not attempting to reintroduce ‘ idealism ’ in which thought and ideas are given a central role in the determination of history . |
| 17 | By attempting to sustain life at all costs , and by refusing to admit the fact that death is a good and proper part of life , doctors are in error . |
| 18 | The experience of Soviet military facilities in Africa and the Middle East in the 1970s discouraged Soviet leaders from attempting to invest substantial military commitments in remote and volatile Third World states elsewhere , especially when they were in areas of clearly proclaimed American interest . |
| 19 | Six Broadstairs matrons attempting to shop at Marchesi 's the confectioners , two errand boys buying bloaters from Mr Goodman the fishmonger , a few afternoon revellers strolling out from the Dolphin Inn and an eager group from the Tourist Cycling Club staying at the Balmoral Bijou Hotel found themselves swept along with the crowd as they pursued their leaders down Harbour Street under the ancient York Gate ( which being without specific Dickensian associations hardly received a glance ) . |
| 20 | Changes in government have led to discontinuities in policy , but trends towards convergence have also occurred , despite the parties in office attempting to carry out different policies . |
| 21 | Islington 's provision is better than most , yet the Director of Social Services , John Rea Price , feels Islington has been penalised for attempting to carry out the Government 's own directives on community care . |
| 22 | As Poker Joe guided the people north-east , the warriors killed several white men attempting to carry messages between the soldiers . |
| 23 | However , companies without any experience of operations in Britain would be well advised to seek professional advice before attempting to carry out work likely to require planning permission . |
| 24 | In attempting to carry out his economic policies the President had frequently met a central problem that was also to obstruct the social reforms he had promised — the difficulty of persuading Congress to pass the necessary legislation . |
| 25 | Greenpeace members were arrested by the French authorities on attempting to carry out tests nearer the atoll . |
| 26 | Then , during the World Cup final , he clashed heads with England winger Simon Halliday and suffered a cut above his right eye — an injury which can be quite bothersome for a full-back , especially when attempting to gather high balls . |
| 27 | Progress has aimed its ADE at value added resellers and MIS departments in the past , but says it is now attempting to target large companies . |
| 28 | in attempting to estimate the emergence of a land mass from present altitudes of planation surfaces , their origins , base levels and most probably regional slopes must be considered ; |
| 29 | To put that another way : imagine an economist attempting to estimate a model of real output in this economy . |
| 30 | It is clear that both earnings per share and PE ratios can be dubious quantities , yet investment analysts make extensive use of both in attempting to estimate the true values of firms and in making comparisons between firms . |