Example sentences of "[adj] attempts [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After this encounter Einstein gave up his specific attempts to undermine the uncertainty principle . |
| 2 | Some of the last-gasp attempts to save the Nationalist governments that were considered in Washington — with the wilder arpeggios such as encouraging the fragmentation of China or even , apparently , a series of punitive air strikes against the Chinese communists ( not to mention the sheer fantasy of creating ten new Chinese armies in six months ) — originated in the Far Eastern division of the State Department , and in fact the Administration , says Blum , had come close to re-intervention in the Chinese civil war on the mainland , but backed away at the last minute when it discovered that there was no viable force left to support . |
| 3 | The UDA made some half-hearted attempts to block the roads but they were unpopular enough for the RUC to have little trouble in shifting them . |
| 4 | Much of the night passed in vain attempts to open the tomb , but an appeal to the saint herself worked wonders ( a common feature of such tales ) , and the party made for its ships with the precious plunder . |
| 5 | Dr Neil made vain attempts to stifle the bleeding , his own face now as grey as the bedlinen had been before it turned red . |
| 6 | Stuart Weir reports on Tory and Labour attempts to win the argument over constitutional reform |
| 7 | But the news overshadowed Labour attempts to make the economy the centrepiece of their conference attacks on the government . |
| 8 | Repeated attempts to ascertain the cause of the disaster had encountered difficulties in obtaining information [ see pp. 36434 ; 37096 ] . |
| 9 | After repeated attempts to bring the shadow Cabinet around to his opposition to the ‘ permanent deflation and lack of democracy ’ implied in the Maastricht Treaty , Mr Gould resigned from the shadow Cabinet on 27 September 1992 , saying that his wish to speak out on the Maastricht Treaty was incompatible with the burden of collective responsibility , and claiming that over one hundred Labour MPs supported his position . |
| 10 | Repeated attempts to amend the Constitution in order to accommodate the Compact had been approved by referendum but had failed to achieve the requisite 75 per cent majority . |
| 11 | It has to be said , however , that some people continue their addiction to death even while making repeated attempts to follow the principles of the Anonymous Fellowship , yet still relapsing time and time again . |
| 12 | Condemned Iraqi attempts to modify the demography of Kuwait . |
| 13 | French attempts to relieve the pressure failed , and on 4 August 1347 , after almost a year of blockade by both land and sea , Calais fell to Edward III . |
| 14 | But the German attempts to break the blockade by use of submarines ( U-boats ) created more serious problems . |
| 15 | The President needed room to manoeuvre in negotiated attempts to resolve the crisis . |
| 16 | There have been very few direct attempts to assess the significance of corporatism for the administrative branch of the state . |
| 17 | Langbaurgh has made several all-party attempts to get the Government to reconsider its spending limits . |
| 18 | FRESH ATTEMPTS to break the ambulance pay dispute deadlock are expected to coincide tomorrow with a health service union lobby of the Conservative Party conference as it opens in Blackpool , writes Helen Hague . |
| 19 | The example will also set the scene for a discussion of some more recent and more adequate attempts to characterize the essence of science and its methods . |
| 20 | In the main , however , policing continues to be publicly concerned to prevent and detect individual attempts to steal the property of the citizen and it suits the police 's purpose for their community role to be well broadcast , for on those rare occasions when they have expanded their controls to include the activities of the middle classes , they have found themselves on less certain ground . |
| 21 | But in any case it has been clearly apparent to all fieldworking anthropologists for at least sixty years that the various kinds of performance which have , in the past , been assigned to the categories " magic " , " religion " , " magico-religious " , are expressions of artistic creativity rather than misguided attempts to control the material world by mechanical means . |
| 22 | Radical changes in the nature of individual separate ‘ subjects ’ , and serious attempts to widen the scope of a pupil 's education at school were virtually blocked by the universities . |
| 23 | Serious attempts to gauge the likelihood of an outbreak of Frownie-wearing in London 's health clubs have been greeted only by hoots of laughter . |
| 24 | After the Poema there were to be no more serious attempts to re-tell the life of El Cid with any fidelity to actual events . |
| 25 | Stonehenge still has a very special air in spite of the official attempts to destroy the place ; York Minster has it , and Chartres has it to an incredible extent . |
| 26 | But apart from these very limited attempts to control the exercise of sentencing discretion by law , the only other guidance that is available comes from the past practice of the courts themselves in determining the ‘ going rate ’ for particular offences , and , in particular , the checking and structuring functions of the Court of Appeal . |
| 27 | There have been limited attempts to address the problem of third parties , for example by the International Law Commission and the International Court of Justice . |
| 28 | The design of the Panopticon represents Bentham 's contribution to contemporary attempts to assure the quality of time used . |
| 29 | The settlement of the Alans near Valence may have more in common with imperial attempts to solve the problem of abandoned land , agri deserti , than with other grants to the barbarians . |
| 30 | Then she made 18 separate attempts to light the fuel . |