Example sentences of "[conj] attempting [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laura was still roughly chastising herself , and attempting to ignore the hard knot of unsatisfied desire still gripping her body , when Ross came back into the room . |
| 2 | These models develop continuously while attempting to modify the external situation ( physical or social ) . |
| 3 | The approach states : Experiential learning uses the tools of phenomenology , in particular the device of bracketing out , or putting aside , our personal assumptions when attempting to understand the religious life of another person . |
| 4 | It would be beneficial to know the ‘ best ’ grammatical category for any particular word when attempting to determine the probable parse to assign to a sequence of words . |
| 5 | The difference between the trained and the naïve rats is that the former have been electrically shocked , and therefore certainly stressed or pained , when attempting to enter the dark box . |
| 6 | When attempting to reconstruct the past evolution of physical landscape and to establish the chronology of its stages of evolution , we are confined to ‘ windows ’ of limited and varying opacity and size ( Lewin , 1980 ) . |