Example sentences of "attempt [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rate of heart contractions increases in an attempt to preserve blood flow to the vital organs . |
| 2 | If however the attempted rescues were purely an ill-judged attempt to preserve employment , we need only resolve not to make the same mistake again . |
| 3 | I 'd say it was an attempt to confirm Harry 's guilt that went disastrously wrong , leaving you with bristling new doubts and a whole lot more to investigate . ’ |
| 4 | Doubt and ambivalence are transmuted into clarity and certainty , and any attempt to reintroduce complexity into the debate is rejected as ‘ mere nitpicking ’ or ‘ a deliberate attempt to muddy the issue ’ . |
| 5 | This form of work organisation , an attempt to reintroduce responsibility , autonomy , and the client ‘ contractor element to the management ’ worker relationship , had the following four aspects : |
| 6 | In ANDES " work , particularly in the controlled zones and with refugees , it has made a concerted attempt to include women , and its educational materials have been drawn up bearing in mind the need to broaden the context of women 's work . |
| 7 | The Far Eastern Economic Review reported on Sept. 28 that Myanma sources and diplomatic observers had dismissed these allegations as an attempt to discredit the NLD and as an attempt to bolster unity in the Army which had fought the insurgent CPB for many years . |
| 8 | This can be used to reinforce the differences between preference and ordinary shares although in this case the explanation does not lie in that direction as there are no preference shares ; rather the explanation is more to do with stability of dividends in an attempt to bolster shareholders ' confidence . |
| 9 | The government announced on Nov. 8 that it would allow the value of the shekel to fall by 11 per cent over the next year in an attempt to bolster growth . |
| 10 | Instead , IFEMA have plunged down the desperate road of offering ten complimentary booths to leading galleries , which had not committed to attend the fair , in an attempt to bolster ARCO 's international image . |
| 11 | The marketing drive is their latest attempt to commercialise space and earn hard currency , Until now any deals have been largely through the Soviet Space Agency , Glvacosmos . |
| 12 | At that time few attempts were made to measure the effectiveness of such activity , and advertising agencies tended to branch out into sales promotions with the aim of offering an all-inclusive package to their clients in an attempt to combat competition from the emerging sales promotion agencies . |
| 13 | They enable her to get housework done ; thinking about something else is a weapon deliberately employed in the attempt to combat boredom . |
| 14 | Control of public expenditure until the 1960s was highly fragmented and largely revolved around the consideration of annual estimates : there was little or no attempt to plan expenditure programmes for the medium or long term . |
| 15 | Is his work , to put it at its bluntest , a throwback to an age long past , a magnificent but doomed attempt to breathe life into fossils ? |
| 16 | There was no attempt to see Rome , as it were , from a distance — as something strange , mysterious in language and religion , frightful in rituals and formidable in warfare . |
| 17 | Loretta decided she would have to abandon her attempt to see Veronica for the rest of the day . |
| 18 | Her last book , A Memoir of the Late Mrs. Henrietta Fordyce , was published anonymously in 1823 , evidently in an attempt to silence rumours that she had taken advantage of a generous elderly relative . |
| 19 | The municipal authorities in Beijing , the Chinese capital , have adopted new water management measures in an attempt to conserve resources , reduce pollution and improve quality . |
| 20 | To cut the Persian nobility off from such sources of revenue would be a good way of avenging the Persian attempt to satrapize Greece in 480 , and to farm Attica and Euboia as royal estates . |
| 21 | Gholamreza Awazadeh , the country 's oil minister , said the move was in line with the deal agreed last week by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries to trim supplies in an attempt to support prices . |
| 22 | US planes attack Tripoli in an attempt to kill Colonel Muammar Gadafy . |
| 23 | Yusagai was one of the men named in the attempt to kill Alexei . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm damned sure it was an attempt to kill Tweed , ’ Kuhlmann told Newman as they again strolled up and down the concourse of the main station . |
| 25 | RETURN_DETAIL/ — is a return parameter providing a report of the errors encountered during the attempt to grant/deny approval to the package . |
| 26 | What has been noticeably lacking is any attempt to treat communication for what it is — an interpersonal , dynamic activity . |
| 27 | In an attempt to disrupt tourism , the guerrillas also blasted a huge crater in the runway of the international airport of Cartagena on the Caribbean coast . |
| 28 | in a deliberate attempt to disrupt Time-Warner employees : ‘ Just about every time one of Time-Warner 's local cable trucks makes a call , it parks illegally . |
| 29 | ‘ What Hitler failed to do , Ashdown wants to do — bring Britain under the rule of the Germans and the French , ’ he yelled in an attempt to disrupt Mr Ashdown 's walkabout . |
| 30 | The government offered no special finance for public works , and made no attempt to enforce implementation . |