Example sentences of "attempted [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She attempted to restore some order to her tousled hair with her fingers , then stroked on a little blusher to counteract at least a little of her pallor ; but there was little she could do to repair the ravages of the night , and finally she turned away with a heavy sigh . |
| 2 | At various times , the Unionist government attempted to curb such displays either by banning marches or by re-routeing them through areas with the same politics as the marchers . |
| 3 | The urge to cash in on contemporary themes remained , however , and another small group of films attempted to dramatize these issues in a way that would avoid the pitfalls of labour films . |
| 4 | When one boy attempted to impart some sense of movement to the still life by pouring himself an imaginary cup of tea the teacher lightly but firmly kicked him back to his seat , smiling and talking in a manner that confirmed for the pupil the ‘ naturalness ’ of this action . |
| 5 | In the first few years of the informal concordat under the RAC , there appears to have been a tacit agreement that in Cambridgeshire the WEA attempted to provide few courses , largely it is thought because of its financial problems . |
| 6 | His solutions attempted to provide more speed for developers , more participation for the public and better quality development and conservation . |
| 7 | During the war , various reforms attempted to consolidate these diverse institutions , including the appointment in February 1855 of Lord Panmure to a position combining both governmental posts . |
| 8 | Thus , while the state attempted to monopolize such discussion as took place — for example when the ‘ neutral ’ forum for discussion at the VEC seminar was turned by the authorities into a reassurance session — this was resisted locally by successful intervention and contestation at the VEC seminar both by an outside speaker and by DUC activists , and by forcing the issue back on the table for discussion at the local authority level . |
| 9 | However , as I said , our staff responded tremendously and attempted to meet all our demands . |
| 10 | Men-at-arms , wearing the royal livery of Scotland , attempted to impose some form of order but the situation was not improved by a horde of courtiers standing around also issuing their instructions to a vast army of retainers all wearing different liveries . |
| 11 | MR PETER Brooke , the Northern Ireland Secretary , last night attempted to repair some of the damage done by his reference last week to the possibility of talking to Sinn Fein if the IRA laid down its arms . |
| 12 | Mechanisms of political control were backed up by a harsh system of regulation , which attempted to minimize all social , political and economic change among the population at large . |
| 13 | They were fascinated by the entrails of the ‘ Chuffa-chuffa-clang-clang ’ train strewn over the hearthrug as Malc and a screwdriver attempted to revive this sole survivor of Christmas . |
| 14 | Ironically , it is with an honorary degree in Law that the University now wishes to recognise him ; b ) actively encouraged military spending in such areas as ‘ Star Wars ’ , chemical weapons and first-strike nuclear weapons systems ; c ) attempted to scupper all arms control agreements and moves towards detente with the Eastern bloc . |
| 15 | He was not supposed to know whether the dealer was buying or selling on his client 's behalf , but nonetheless he attempted to guess this from the runner 's facial expression and comments . |
| 16 | I have , after all , attempted to answer this before , if to no avail . |
| 17 | The old woman attempted to regain some dignity . |
| 18 | Preobrazhensky attempted to define some optimum rate of primitive socialist accumulation for the state sector in an abstract manner . |
| 19 | None wished or attempted to destroy all the institutions which acted as possible centres of opposition to their reforming efforts . |
| 20 | We found in the interviews that once we had got beyond some version of this public model of management , managers attempted to humanize this by drawing on metaphors from their own experience and inner resources . |
| 21 | In August 1990 the French government attempted to appease this growing discontent by promising to hold discussions in 1991 on the territory 's future . |
| 22 | After 5 October 1968 a poorly organised and deeply divided movement attempted to apply some of the methods used in the Deep South . |
| 23 | We attempted to avoid this bias by offering endoscopy to every asthmatic patient regardless of the presence or absence of reflux symptoms . |
| 24 | It attempted to identify these needs , and addressed detailed recommendations for meeting them to central government , LEAs , examination boards , teachers , training institutions and funding bodies for research and curriculum development . |
| 25 | On 1st July 1916 at 7.30 a.m. , to the sound of exploding mines and a massive artillery barrage , British and Commonwealth forces attempted to storm these low hills around Thiepval . |
| 26 | On the one hand , he sensed the anger of the island and its hot spirits if the powerful enchantress died ( for so he saw her ) ; he attempted to exorcise this fear with prayer and readings from the Bible , sometimes aloud to the uncomprehending heathen girl who tended the hag as if she were a lover . |
| 27 | The story , involving a bricklayer 's misfortunes as he attempted to lower some bricks from the top of a building in a barrel , was not especially funny , but Hoffnung 's manner and delivery reduced his audience to hysterics . |
| 28 | Hameed attempted to negotiate another ceasefire on June 15 ; the next day was relatively peaceful , but fresh fighting broke out on June 17 . |
| 29 | Working on the template agreed with his fellow coaches , McGeechan and Douglas Morgan , Dixon has brought a dynamism to the driving mauls , mostly triggered from clean lineout ball , which had seemed largely beyond the Scottish Exiles — four of whom are in the pack — when they attempted to deploy that tactic during the inter-district championship . |
| 30 | Various reports during February attempted to give some assessment of the damage sustained in Iraq as a result of the UN embargo [ see pp. 37639-40 ; 37695 ; 37871 ] and the air war . |