Example sentences of "attempt [to-vb] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ; |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In this case it was a jury of 12 which , by its verdict , appeared to be commenting on the legitimacy of governmental action in attempting to mislead the Foreign Affairs Select Committee about the circumstances surrounding the sinking of the General Belgrano , an Argentinian warship , during the Falklands Campaign in 1982 . |
| 11 | A group of users , integrators and vendors is , we hear , attempting to re-draw the laws of conventional computing in a effort to put users — rather than computers — at the centre of the industry 's cosmological system . |
| 12 | Now a rise in interest rates would be seen in its true colours , as a means for attempting to support the value of sterling at an artificially high level against the D-Mark within the ERM . |
| 13 | On a more pragmatic , but related , issue , students were finding it harder to ‘ pass ’ inference skills IN 1–3 , than IN 4–6 , and since this had important implications for their grading , I was attempting to remediate the early skills on an ad hoc basis with some non-subject-specific pencil and paper exercises . |
| 14 | It was impossible for Theodore to maintain the integrity of Wilfrid 's position while at the same time attempting to conserve the tradition which Eata , Eadhaed and Bosa represented , and in the years which followed it was the latter which was consolidated . |
| 15 | When the bluff failed , it is hardly surprising that no-one seriously considered attempting to implement the general strike against war . |
| 16 | Firstly , unless and until definitions are agreed , we may be attempting to compare the incidence of different phenomena . |
| 17 | I am not attempting to compare the quality of the Territorial Army now and following national service , but the TA then consisted almost entirely of people who had served for two years on a full-time basis , and the level of skill and general martial ability was very high . |
| 18 | Returning to London eventually , and still attempting to arrange the peace for which they were empowered , they stayed on for a second year , accumulating benefices and sustained by clerical procurations meanwhile . |
| 19 | Great care should be taken before attempting to drain the water out of this type of system — the boiler must be let out first . |
| 20 | The Green Party has announced its intention of forcing environmental issues into the mainstream political agenda during the election campaign by attempting to affect the outcome of key marginal seats . |
| 21 | Then , if there is no further movement , it should be obvious that the ferret has made firm contact and will be attempting to kill the rabbit . |
| 22 | Everything below , we were sure , was exactly as it would have appeared in centuries past-apart from one major anachronism , a bright yellow construction crane , which was attempting to plant the last monolith in the stone circle . |
| 23 | The RAAF utilised the Lincoln primarily as a ‘ quick reaction ’ strike aircraft , tasking sorties after direct request for ground support from combat units , usually attempting to drive the bandits into ambush sites . |
| 24 | I do not think that anyone attempting to classify the vertebrates would fail to recognize the Anura as a group , or that , presented with an adult vertebrate , one would be in any doubt as to whether or not it was an Anuran . |
| 25 | Moreover , these successes have to be set beside the less successful regeneration projects attempting to replicate the well known formula in cities such as Richmond ( Virginia ) , Toledo ( Ohio ) and Flint ( Michigan ) , all of which are faltering ( Guskind , 1989 ) . |
| 26 | It does appear that many large pension funds do carry out such a policy , with many of them attempting to replicate the FTSE 100 Index with their core portfolios so that the returns will match the market . |
| 27 | ‘ In my opinion , attempting to replicate the past success of Amstrad by gambling on product ideas and building up large stocks in the hope of achieving ‘ blockbuster ’ sales would be putting shareholders ' funds at risk and demoralising for me . ’ |
| 28 | On the whole , the champions of the literal approach have been the party attempting to strike down a particular clause whilst the object and intent approach tends to favour parties who are attempting to uphold the restraint . |
| 29 | Some are now attempting to combat the isolation they feel by setting up a national body to represent their interests . |
| 30 | There is no justification in attempting to emphasise the superficially attractive at the expense of those things that form the core of our work . |