Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [prep] an attempt " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although many questions in parliament about aircraft accidents are put in a genuine spirit of inquiry , it can not be denied that others are merely tabled in an attempt to embarrass the minister or government of the day . |
| 2 | The Cabinet noted that the examination papers appeared to have been deliberately leaked in an attempt to shake the educational system and society at large . |
| 3 | Even within one crop , varieties are often introduced in an attempt to maximise yields , but succeed only at the cost of decreasing soil protection by foliage at times of heaviest rainfall ( David Gibbon , personal communication ) . |
| 4 | Both these stories were widely seen as an attempt to ‘ shoe-in ’ Gordon Brown rather than Smith in the event of a leadership vacancy , although Brown , it must be said , had no part in them . |
| 5 | The orthodox gave the latter term a pejorative sense ; the apocryphal texts were correctly seen as an attempt to replace the books accepted by the mainstream communities and included in their church lectionary as authentic representatives of the apostolic tradition of faith . |
| 6 | These conclusions were partially based on an attempt to identify users and their needs empirically ( Jones et al. , 1985 ) , though that exercise was somewhat disappointing because of the very low response rate ( reportedly around 10 per cent ) . |
| 7 | Policies which encouraged this dispersal , such as new town and overspill policies , were recently reversed in an attempt to regenerate the local economies of urban areas . |
| 8 | Often , ill or retarded babies were thought to be changelings and were miserably tortured in an attempt to force them to revert to fairy form . |
| 9 | The nut is still miles too high , and the strings choke off badly , despite the way the frets have been heavily filed in an attempt to cure a slightly wavy neck , but it 's within the realms of playability … just . |
| 10 | The principle of independence in monist reasoning is usually coupled with an attempt to interpret relations as a sub-class of properties and expressive of certain purely internal features of their terms , or what is sometimes referred to as the doctrine of the " internality of relations " . |
| 11 | The allegations against Sessions , which related to the misuse of government cars and aircraft and were claimed to have originated from an anonymous letter , were widely denounced as having been politically inspired in an attempt to intimidate the FBI and discredit its inquiry . |
| 12 | The move , described as " a balancing act " , was widely regarded as an attempt by the government both to pacify religious fundamentalists critical of recent changes in its policy towards Afghanistan [ see pp. 38725-26 ] , and to secure closer co-operation from the ISI . |
| 13 | In what was widely regarded as an attempt to deflate the extraordinary personality cult which had grown up around him since his cancer was publicized , the King referred indirectly to his own mortality . |
| 14 | In fact , the action was widely seen as an attempt by George Bush 's close pal , President Turgut Ozal , to prove himself more militantly anti-Kurd than his chief rival , Suleyman Demirel , in the run-up to the October 20th general election . |
| 15 | Subsequently , Matiba 's wife and daughter were attacked on June 14 at their home in what was widely seen as an attempt to intimidate |
| 16 | The reshuffle was widely seen as an attempt to deflect allegations of corruption . |
| 17 | In what was widely seen as an attempt to give its efforts to improve relations with other countries greater domestic and international credibility , the Albanian government hosted a visit to Tirana by the Secretary-General of the United Nations , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , on May 11-13 , when held talks with Alia and other senior officials and also visited other parts of the country . |
| 18 | The decision was widely seen as an attempt to support the Sri Lankan government in its war against Tamil guerrillas , and was announced as Foreign Minister Shukla completed a three-day visit to Sri Lanka . |
| 19 | In what was widely seen as an attempt to draw Israel into the conflict , Iraq had launched a number of missile attacks on Tel Aviv and Haifa [ see pp. 37936-37 ; 37984 ] . |
| 20 | In what was widely seen as an attempt to exact vengeance on Clinton , Nichols had issued a federal lawsuit which claimed that the Governor had had extra-marital affairs with at least five women , and that he had misused official funds in entertaining them . |
| 21 | The leadership change was widely seen as an attempt to rejuvenate the party , whose fortunes had been at their lowest since it first came to power in 1981 . |
| 22 | The Sejm had passed a resolution on May 28 calling for the exposure by June 20 of former security service agents in positions of authority , but its early implementation was widely seen as an attempt by the government to retain power . |
| 23 | His announcement was widely seen as an attempt to boost his flagging popularity , to demonstrate French commitment to European integration in the wake of the Danish referendum setback for the Maastricht Treaty , and to expose divisions over Europe within the opposition Gaullist Rassemblement pour la République ( RPR ) and the centrist Union pour la démocratie française ( UDF ) . |
| 24 | Public outcry over what was widely seen as an attempt to intervene in the judicial process , however , caused the party to withdraw this threat almost immediately . |
| 25 | In what was widely interpreted as an attempt to influence pre-trial public opinion , Barry portrayed himself as a victim of harassment by the white establishment , but warned that the prosecution case would founder in the event of only " one juror saying " I 'm not going to convict Marion Barry , I do n't care what you say " " . |
| 26 | The move was widely interpreted as an attempt to improve the prospects of the Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) winning a further term of office in the next general election , due by mid-1993 . |
| 27 | Kaunda had already made known his strong preference for retaining the one-party system ; his action was thus seen as an attempt to appease critics of his regime , particularly among the trade union and business communities . |
| 28 | He says he was physically threatened in an attempt to get him to sign over the rights to three groups he represents to Sony . |
| 29 | It was a contentious issue and was generally seen as an attempt by the party 's left wing to try to remove some Labour members of whom they disapproved . |
| 30 | It settled even while building was in progress and the fourteenth century bellchamber was differently angled in an attempt to right the inclination . |