Example sentences of "attempts [verb] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Attempts to annul such orders are rarely successful . |
| 4 | Although there has been some success in attempts to halt such ceremonies , or at least to make them less dangerous or humiliating , there is evidence that they are a perennial aspect of group behaviour unlikely to be eradicated . |
| 5 | Government attempts to define such hospitals did of course give a new lease of life to those not under scrutiny . |
| 6 | It was often said later that it was in Switzerland that Muhammad Reza required a sympathy for aspect of democracy , and that his subsequent attempts to reconcile such notions with the governance of Iran proved to be difficult . |
| 7 | Attempts to excuse such a situation as ‘ the price of socialism ’ , I said , is doing socialism no favours . |
| 8 | But so far as the problem of holism is concerned , attempts to formulate such a priori defences of individualism are unsatisfactory in two ways . |
| 9 | Christian women who are studying their traditions for new interpretations are not helped by secular attempts to dismiss such traditions altogether . |
| 10 | Attempts to regulate such services in 1988 led to the setting up of a compensation fund to pay the bills of unsuspecting parents . |