Example sentences of "[det] attempt [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This attempt to produce a scientific scheme of ideas has been subjected to severe criticism which need not be repeated here ( see Simon 1957 ; Rose 1975 ) . |
| 2 | I must say that the way the discussion has gone this morning , is n I would say , slightly disappointing because there is some attempt to make a positive contribution , but at the moment it 's not necessarily pointing us quite in the direction which we would hope to go . |
| 3 | Despite the fact that current legislation does make some attempt to provide a legal framework governing the treatment of the mentally ill , its central focus remains that of detention . |
| 4 | What is illustrated by these attempts to introduce a written constitution an unlikely event in modem times — is that there is considerable concern over the ambiguities and lack of clear codification in an unwritten constitution . |
| 5 | It is worth pausing for a moment to examine the nature of this sentiment since , more than any other factor , it explains why all attempts to build a mass peace movement , both during and after the war , were to fail . |
| 6 | This alliance of opposition frustrated all attempts to establish a professional police until Peel 's 1829 Metropolitan Police Act . |
| 7 | Faced with mutual incomprehension on one hand and linguistic imperialism on the other , there have been many attempts to introduce a standard world language . |
| 8 | The Malaysian government expressed concern over the agreement and warned that , along with other ASEAN countries , it would oppose any attempts to establish a new US naval base in Singapore . |
| 9 | In general , then , a bank 's highest yielding assets tend to be illiquid — for example , a large proportion of advances to customers , though profitable , are illiquid ; similarly , equities are illiquid in that any attempt to sell a large amount of stock would depress stock prices and cause capital losses . |
| 10 | For example , Cortzee shows that contemporary tales of the ‘ tariff reform millions , are not borne out by the relatively impoverished state of the Tariff Reform League , and he demonstrates that the variety of industries and economic activities which were represented in the TRL defy any attempt to produce a simple definition of its interest base . |
| 11 | However , the leader of the DUP group on the council , William Dick , said his party would oppose any attempt to provide a permanent site for travellers . |
| 12 | While many citizens clamoured for the removal of public women from the streets , any attempt to introduce a continental system of tolerated areas would be rejected immediately as implicating the state in the immoral recognition of vice . |
| 13 | 1964 ) he maintained that Barth and Bultmann had come to represent the extremes of objectivism and subjectivism , and offered his own attempt to chart a middle way in which both the given truth of God and the need for it to be apprehended in the personal encounter of faith would be given their proper place . |