Example sentences of "attempted [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On assumption of power labour attempted to implement a programme of progressive reform but in pursuit of this adopted methods that were seen by opponents to be an open challenge to representative democracy . |
| 2 | A notable example of this occurred when the Authority attempted to implement a process of ‘ accrediting ’ management centres and ‘ recognising ’ Health Authorities who met appropriate standards . |
| 3 | The case arose after Jeffrey M. Masson , a psychoanalyst , attempted to sue a journalist , Janet Malcolm , for writing an article about him which included several quotations which were not among the transcripts of the tape-recorded interviews which she had conducted with him . |
| 4 | On Sept. 9 police used tear gas and armoured vehicles to keep at bay thousands of Moslems who attempted to disrupt a rally in the town of Novi Pazar by tens of thousands of supporters of the nationalist Serbian Renewal Movement . |
| 5 | The strain under which Airdrie are operating began to tell in the second half when Falkirk attempted to mount a fightback . |
| 6 | Although he took Parliament 's side at the beginning of the civil war he attempted to arrange a neutrality pact with the Norfolk Royalists , and was soon advocating peace . |
| 7 | While there Mozart attempted to arrange a concert , though his plans were delayed by one week . |
| 8 | Earlier still , in Russia , the Formalists had close connections with the Futurist poets , and attempted to provide a rationale for their revolutionary work . |
| 9 | Between 1337 and 1353 the tax on wool formed part of a series of schemes under which the king attempted to establish a body of powerful and wealthy merchants who would be granted a monopoly in the purchase and export of wool in return for making loans to the king which would be repaid from the maltote , the export tax on wool . |
| 10 | Leaning forward , still shivering , wanting to be sick yet unable to raise anything from her empty stomach but an acrid bile which made her retch again , she attempted to find a chink somewhere in the blank wall , growing granite upon unyielding granite , around her . |
| 11 | Its intentions were not borne out , perhaps could not be borne out , because it attempted to find a niche within a competitive industry without engaging in the sort of competition which guaranteed its rivals , success . |
| 12 | The Hungarians attempted to create a marcher zone to protect their frontier against the Turks by supporting Bosnian resistance in the area between Jajce and the Sava , but after the battle of Mohács in 1526 these pockets of resistance soon collapsed and virtually all Bosnia and Hercegovina lay under the rule of the sultans until the late nineteenth century . |
| 13 | Instead of simply proclaiming " art for art 's sake " they attempted to create a body of work which was on its own terms self-sufficient , with its own order and tradition , capable of embodying and communicating its own values . |
| 14 | The group who produced this version attempted to create a balance between , on the one hand , the central action of the shooting , and , on the other , the more 'static " descriptions of the rain , the hospital and the courtyard . |
| 15 | Midway through the debate , Ovadia Yosef , a former Sephardi chief rabbi and the spiritual mentor of the Sephardic Torah Guardians ( Shas ) , attempted to engineer a compromise whereby the government would respond positively to the US peace proposals , whilst maintaining its stand on certain aspects of East Jerusalem participation . |
| 16 | Mr Perelman previously attempted to buy a stake in Salomon Brothers , which rejected his approach . |
| 17 | A single protester attempted to unfurl a banner in the square on June 3 , but was quickly arrested by police . |
| 18 | The Justice Minister , A. C. S. Hameed , attempted to negotiate a ceasefire with the LTTE on June 12 , but the fighting intensified the following day . |
| 19 | For this reason we welcomed the fact that the Minister of State , Sir Wyn Roberts , backed the Wales Tourist Board led Marinas Review Group which attempted to negotiate a statement of principles to guide coastal developments during 1990/91 . |
| 20 | Where possible , fieldworkers attempted to record a male and a female at each address , and since very often both were not at home at the time of the first visit , a second and even a third visit was arranged to most addresses . |
| 21 | He attempted to dribble a Stephen Brown back-pass from out of his goal area but the ball broke for Ferris who chipped it to the far post where the lurking McBride made it four with a diving header . |
| 22 | Muni , like his contemporaries Cagney and Edward G. Robinson , went into movies as Hollywood attempted to give a Manhattan sharpness to their product . |
| 23 | He loosened his collar , attempted to put a ruler between his teeth , and failed . |
| 24 | In April 1707 , when the Whig mayor and his officers attempted to levy a toll at the cornmarket after the Tories had already done so , they were set upon by an angry crowd egged on by the Tory mayor . |
| 25 | Murrells came to power after the departure of Browne in 1927 he attempted to devise a system of administration more in keeping with the realities of Masai political life . |
| 26 | The first week I was at the school , I attempted to climb a tree , and was reproved by a horrified prefect . |
| 27 | He was finally arrested in London as he attempted to cash a cheque . |
| 28 | In the Philippines , Taruc resumed his struggle against the government and announced that he was a communist while in Indonesia , whatever triggered it off , communists at Madiun in September 1948 attempted to stage a revolution within the revolution . |
| 29 | Griffith 's breakthrough came almost accidentally as he attempted to forge a career in a new industry about which he knew little . |
| 30 | Mrs. Maria Fyfe ( Glasgow , Maryhill ) : When this legislation was presented to the Chamber some weeks ago , I inquired of the Secretary of State for Scotland when he last attempted to board a bus whilst trying to fold a pushchair , with an infant in one arm and a toddler held by the other hand . |