Example sentences of "attempts [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My actual intervention was linked to wider attempts to combat these influences by developing a new cultural politics of antiracism based around ‘ two tone music ’ . |
| 2 | For him the house was filled with suffering and fluffed attempts to pretend that suffering did n't exist . |
| 3 | A number of previous attempts to penetrate this male club had been unsuccessful , with the raiding parties being driven back by irate men . |
| 4 | This study attempts to penetrate this statistical ‘ dark age ’ by assembling data on prices , incomes and purchasing power in the period 1700-1845 . |
| 5 | At the same time , in their attempts to rearticulate these basic issues , feminists necessarily take over and use philosophical concepts already available — and in so doing they may import , entailed or entangled in apparently neutral concepts , implications which reiterate and reinforce the assumptions that are being challenged . |
| 6 | ‘ Although it seemed natural to expect that some word match scores should be good enough that they could be considered correct , thereby eliminating attempts to find alternatives to them , in fact all attempts to implement such an intuition seemed to have led to at best indifferent results and usually to positive degradation . |
| 7 | The evidence from European countries of attempts to implement these kinds of arrangements tends to support the view that while they help ease labour-management tensions they slow down decision-making and reduce management flexibility . |
| 8 | The latter approach attempts to carry these ambiguities around in the form of constraints . |
| 9 | Attempts to breach these injunctions resulted in severe financial penalties being imposed on the print unions and the eventual cessation of hostilities . |
| 10 | There were genuine attempts to curb these activities but the PLO could do no more than send its security units into the streets to prevent looting . |
| 11 | Of his attempts to realize this experience over again in his post-Siberian fiction , the bald Epilogue to Crime and Punishment is an early and unpromising instance . |
| 12 | They are therefore predominantly sectarian in political religious form , and attempts to modify this sectarian structure are at the moment opposed mainly , though not exclusively , by the Irish Roman catholic clergy . |
| 13 | This magazine as a whole attempts to provide some of that missing sense of movement by tracking down individual people that the NI once profiled to see what time has done to them . |
| 14 | This article attempts to provide some explanations for how readers of the play text or the audience of the dramatic performance are able to recognise character traits , and how these traits are themselves affected by the action of the play . |
| 15 | Attempts to establish such relations firmly in the successor republics are still going on , but the crisis inherent in contemporary political conditions is likely to result in strong executives . |
| 16 | Principal developments in Somalia from mid-1989 [ see p. 36757 for events to that date ] continued to be dominated by the civil war , the regime 's attempts to establish some dialogue with opposition forces on its own terms , and allegations of human rights abuses [ see pp. 36806 ; 37113-14 ; 37174 ] . |
| 17 | Police forces around the country have sought advice from forensic scientists in their attempts to find those responsible for such attacks . |
| 18 | After this show we changed quickly , without the usual bickering and jokes and attempts to pull each other 's underpants off . |
| 19 | However , the difficulties of this approach became apparent in attempts to relate these parental characteristics to child behaviour . |
| 20 | Marxism attempts to replace that code without providing any serious motive to induce people to behave decently and for the common good . |
| 21 | Attempts to annul such orders are rarely successful . |
| 22 | Their early attempts to create some kind of political unity from the scores of minor clans , each under its own chieftain or župan , were continually beset by difficulties arising from the attempts of both the Byzantines and Bulgars to dominate them . |
| 23 | An article * by Andrew Stark , a professor of management at the University of Toronto , attempts to answer that question . |
| 24 | This chapter attempts to answer these questions partly by reference to work in the field and in part through a review and analysis of works of fiction typically used as ‘ whole class readers ’ in the lower years of six secondary comprehensive schools and falls into two parts . |
| 25 | This project attempts to answer these questions , concentrating on computer programmers and systems analysts and building on the base of information gathered during the past few years at Bristol . |
| 26 | The Act attempts to answer these problems . |
| 27 | This chapter attempts to highlight some of the ways that policy considerations affect the provision of materials in academic and public libraries . |
| 28 | This section attempts to highlight some of the ambiguities involved in just two of the criteria by which the success of urban policy is commonly measured . |
| 29 | The initiative has also made concerted attempts to tackle these problems . |
| 30 | The successive wars between the German states and France might be seen as the result of increasing German frustration over failed attempts to reach these markets . |