Example sentences of "attempts [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most mixed economy interventions involve the state in subsidizing or taking over the organization of necessary economic activities unprofitable for capital ; and most welfare policies can be understood as attempts to socialize labour costs falling on businesses , which become financed out of general taxation instead of showing up directly in employers ' wage bills and production costs . |
| 2 | There is a sub-theory that attempts to embrace ham curing in the cellar and a consensus that the frequent fisticuffs notion is the least likely . |
| 3 | Therefore , it must be treated as a process with an underlying socio-political motivation , which attempts to promote uniformity and suppress variability for reasons that are considered functional . |
| 4 | The counsellor constructs a working hypothesis which attempts to see meaning and connections in the counsellee 's social performance . |
| 5 | Resource decentralisation is practised in the Kent Community Care Scheme which attempts to provide care at home for frail elderly people as a means of avoiding institutional care . |
| 6 | In other spheres attempts to increase productivity had been blocked . |
| 7 | But in the 1960s attempts to increase crop production in these areas introduced higher yielding varieties of the ‘ green revolution ’ . |
| 8 | It attempts to exclude liability . |
| 9 | But attempts to encourage family planning encounter obstacles not only of an economic nature but also of a religious , cultural , and possibly also political nature . |
| 10 | The next type of planned town includes those which are reasonably well dated to the tenth to thirteenth centuries and which were clearly new planned urban centres added on to existing villages by their owners as attempts to encourage trade . |
| 11 | The agreed ratio will reflect a number of considerations , such as : ( a ) the age and experience of each partner ; ( b ) the amount of time a partner is required to devote to the firm ; ( c ) the nature of each partner 's work ( legal aid or private , fee earning only or including a generous proportion of remuneration for office and appointments held ) ; ( d ) the extent to which the profits of separate departments within the firm differ substantially from one another ; ( e ) whether the firm 's policy tends to equality of reward ( and equality would be imposed under the Partnership Act in the absence of some other agreed ratio ) or whether , for example , it attempts to relate profit shares to salaries in comparable employments . |
| 12 | Moreover attempts to relate language classes to other strands systematically have not always been popular , many students preferring a language course which gives them an insight into cultural trends , with texts drawn from recent magazines , broadcasts , etc . |
| 13 | When someone eats a snack while mentally absorbed in other things — perhaps a mother grabbing her own meal in between attempts to coax food down a baby , or a viewer eating a TV snack while totally involved in the latest beastly plots of ‘ J.R . ’ |
| 14 | The authors argue that ‘ attempts to evaluate effectiveness have shown little or no benefit , ’ although among the references they quote are three studies that did not entail counselling in the accepted sense of the term at all , two of which produced distinctly positive results . |
| 15 | In either case collectivism is an important rock on which attempts to coordinate opposition to growth-first policies have foundered . |
| 16 | But attempts to define breadth and balance rapidly meet a difficult problem : all subjects wish to claim compulsory status ; however , it then proves difficult to fit them all into reasonable time allocations . |
| 17 | And there has been a remarkable interchange of ideas between computational theorists and neuroscientists , in which attempts to create computer models of neural function have not only generated powerful new tools for the interpreting of the brain but have also fed back into computer theory and practice . |
| 18 | Sadly , in the second half , the play begins to fall apart at the seams as Harwood attempts to combine comedy with more serious themes . |
| 19 | If we turn to the literature which attempts to combine sociobiology with social psychology , we find the formation of youth subcultures being given an explanation which is largely at odds with that proposed by Marxism . |
| 20 | However , Excess loses the plot when it attempts to trace club culture back to its black and gay roots in half-a-dozen rhyming couplets or explain the appeal of Ibiza as club nirvana through two camp characters who , one assumes , symbolise ‘ hedonism ’ . |
| 21 | In particular , the NHS Management Board have developed an Information Management and Training Strategy ( 1989 ) which attempts to identify training and support requirements for staff within the NHS . |
| 22 | Dedicated football fan that he is , Anderson attempts to give advice to Crisp and Broadbent in a long and excited utterance , but this is only a part of the whole picture because his enthusiasm for the topic , implicated by the length of the turn , conflicts with the hesitancy he also displays . |
| 23 | [ He attempts to kiss PAMELA . |
| 24 | However , the new discipline of Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) attempts to build computer systems with the knowledge of a particular area . |
| 25 | For blood cholesterol concentrations too few controls had contemporary measurements to allow valid comparisons , but attempts to reduce cholesterol by dietary advice in cases were generally unsuccessful . |
| 26 | We have seen that monetarists hold the view that inflation is caused by excessive money supply growth and that attempts to reduce unemployment below the NUP will be futile in the long-run because the long-run Phillips curve is vertical . |
| 27 | The people who end up with detectors on the SSC will be benefiting from a huge American investment ( attempts to raise money abroad are meeting with little success ) and they will be in a position to dominate American particle physics for a decade , so such considerations carry some weight . |
| 28 | Robbe-Grillet 's insistence upon the essentially ludic dimension of all of his fiction ( and cinema ) was also a means of escaping what might be termed the prison-house of reflexivity ; it was not uncommon to find him distancing himself from Ricardou , even during the conference devoted to his work in 1975 , at which he claimed that even his supposedly ‘ theoretical ’ utterances over the years should be construed as attempts to maintain plurality and mobility . |
| 29 | And although I do not agree with them that either suicide or anorexia are attempts to ‘ get attention ’ , but rather attempts to get identity and wholeness , the following passages may serve to illustrate the paradoxical type of thinking which dominates both states of mind . |
| 30 | Millward Brown are pioneers and — to an extent — specialists in tracking studies ( see above ) ; and they have linked information on awareness from these studies to a model of advertising decay rates based on the Adstock concept , developed by Simon Broadbent of Leo Burnett , to develop a model that attempts to link advertising expenditures and awareness to market share . |