Example sentences of "[det] attempt [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Turks might try to tax , or offer administrative salaries to Zuwaya who were willing to participate in government ; but Zuwaya always resisted these attempts to bring them into the reach of government . |
| 2 | Given this continuing policy vacuum on the one hand and the implacable opposition of the judiciary to any attempts to fill it on the other , it is not altogether surprising that few attempts have been made to fashion an overall criminal justice strategy that would bring together sentencing and penal policy . |
| 3 | Any attempt to evade it for the sake of the ‘ purity of the ‘ socialist ideal ’ ’ , 'he warned , would simply lead to a further expansion of the bureaucratic apparatus and to the dictatorship of the producer . |
| 4 | But because of its fierce realism and deep antipathy to authority ( whether it comes in the guise of nationalism or Catholicism , ) this culture is likely to resist any attempt to include it in the cosy consensus of Dublin as Europe 's cultural capital . |
| 5 | Any attempt to introduce them into the discourse is immediately blocked by the slogan posing as question — ‘ but is it philosophy ? ’ |
| 6 | But it is a deeply conservative trade which has resolutely resisted most attempts to bring it into the twentieth century , to make it more efficient , or to make access to the law more available to the ordinary citizen . |