Example sentences of "attempt to control the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Palestinian activists affiliated with PLO chair Yassir Arafat 's Fatah faction had reportedly adopted a strongly anti-Iraqi line , a move which had prompted the Iraqi leadership to deploy guerrillas from the Arab Liberation Front ( ALF ) and the Palestine Liberation Front ( PLF ) in Kuwait in an attempt to control the Palestinian community . |
| 2 | Health Maintenance Organisations ( HMOs ) were established in the USA in an attempt to control the escalating costs of health care . |
| 3 | The codification effort that culminated in the Hague conventions was an attempt to control the increased scale of warfare brought about by the transition from relatively small professional armies to large conscript ones , and the growth in the destructive power of weapons consequent on the growth of large-scale modern industry . |
| 4 | and this is compounded by the fact that the executive branch has given up any attempt to control the military-industrial complex . |
| 5 | It has been estimated that as many as 10% of old people admitted to hospital are there as a direct result of drugs prescribed by their GP ( Age Concern , 1977 ) , and Phillipson ( 1982 ) suggests that much over-prescription of drugs is a conscious attempt to control the medical demands on the health service by older people . |
| 6 | The Kennel Club have also drawn up a code of ethics covering the sale of dogs in an attempt to control the so-called ‘ puppy farmers ’ who produce hundreds of animals purely for profit , and they offer a Canine Code , freely available to owners . |