Example sentences of "[vb past] attempted [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Aug. 13 President Lech Walesa warned Polish workers against " unrealistic demands " , and denounced union leaders who had attempted to compare the present situation in the country with that of August 1980 . |
| 2 | On Aug. 13 President Lech Walesa warned Polish workers against " unrealistic demands " , and denounced union leaders who had attempted to compare the present situation in the country with that of August 1980 . |
| 3 | For years the government had attempted to dissolve the people and elect another . |
| 4 | Several newspapers became independent , including Izvestiya , where staff dismissed editor Nikolai Yefimov , who had attempted to force the newspaper to act in support of the SCSE . |
| 5 | Inspired probably by the continuing ill-feeling towards himself , Gurney had attempted to leave the Grammar School by applying for the Mastership of Wellington College early in 1855 , but the Goldsmiths declined to supply a testimonial of his conduct until he had given up his post , and his application therefore lapsed . |
| 6 | Ratsiraka had attempted to declare the country a federation of six states in August 1991 [ see p. 38378 ] , but this declaration had been disregarded by subsequent governments . |
| 7 | The last occasion upon which a Canadian Prime Minister had attempted to use the British monarch to alter the composition of the Senate had been in 1874 , when Queen Victoria had rejected a request from Alexander Mackenzie . |
| 8 | The rally 's organizers claimed that the recent demonstrations by " red-brown " forces had attempted to destabilize the country in order to influence the forthcoming decision of the Constitutional Court on the Communist Party [ see p. 38923 ] . |
| 9 | It was alleged in March that the Soviet Union had attempted to circumvent the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces ( INF ) Treaty . |
| 10 | The signing of START came amidst embarrassing revelations from US officials who claimed that the Soviet Union had attempted to circumvent the 1987 Intermediate Nuclear Forces ( INF ) treaty by stationing SS-23 missiles in three Warsaw Pact countries . |
| 11 | Official reports said that a 15-strong Armenian gang had attempted to ambush the 11 soldiers , who were waiting to escort a train from Yerevan to Kafan ( in southern Armenia ) through the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhichevan . |
| 12 | It was also discovered that Nomura and Nikko had lent money to a major gangster syndicate and had attempted to boost the value of shares held by the syndicate 's head . |
| 13 | Leona Benten , 29 , acting with the support of abortion-rights activists , had attempted to enter the USA with a number of the pills on July 1 . |
| 14 | But the eyewitness who reported the scene noted that all could see from his face that he was greatly irritated by the French counsellor who had attempted to alter the terms of his homage and exact a fealty oath . |
| 15 | The government had seriously undermined the position of the armed forces , and had attempted to distort the details of the 1982 assassination plot against Queen Sikrit for its own ends . |
| 16 | In the first decade of his reign Selim had attempted to appease the Serbs by granting them a degree of self-government . |
| 17 | An economic embargo had been established in late March , and in early May the government had attempted to increase the pressure by declaring a 50-mile " exclusion zone " around the island , from which all ships and aircraft would be prohibited . |
| 18 | He stated that the United States had attempted to secure the unification of Korea but without success . |
| 19 | The master took the opportunity to complain further to the Board that on several occasions he had drawn the medical officer 's attention to an inmate , William Sabey , who was at times a danger to others and had attempted to stab the labour master . |
| 20 | The action occurred after Palestinians had attempted to prevent the soldiers arresting three men who had been painting slogans on a wall . |