Example sentences of "a attempt [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm still here ! ’ spoken by McQueen when he finally escapes on a craft made of coconut shells — an attempt to round off the story as a paean of praise to survival . |
| 2 | Lakatos 's account was presented first in this book because it is best seen as a culmination of the Popperian programme and as a direct response to and an attempt to improve on the limitations of Popperian falsificationism . |
| 3 | Geoff Tulloch ran computer programme after computer programme in an attempt to arrive at the most efficient method of organisation . |
| 4 | He asked his colleague if he would consider giving him some age-regression therapy in an attempt to deal with the problem , whatever it was , that had been brought to light . |
| 5 | Yet there can be little doubt that Joseph 's reformism was genuine and was combined with an attempt to appeal to the national past ; he encouraged the national theatre , set up a commission to exhume Cervantes ' remains , patronized a national museum of painting . |
| 6 | As Jung said , an attempt to leave behind the child which still lives in us all , denies a part of ourselves and results in behaviour of a very childish , as opposed to childlike , kind . |
| 7 | They produced an attempt to cope with the repressed memory in the form of Christianity , where a son was offered as a sacrifice to the father . |
| 8 | The associated spelling standardization is mainly an attempt to cope with the differences between British and American spelling : there are 13 rules , including " iz " — " is " non-terminal " ae " — " e " and terminal " tre — " ter " The spelling rules are given in full by Walker and Jones . |
| 9 | This is not a ‘ killjoy ’ attitude but an attempt to guard against the dehydration produced by the dry air in the cabin . |
| 10 | Several old barges , beached deliberately years before in an attempt to slow down the river bank erosion , stood out against the moonlit water like defiant skeletons . |
| 11 | The younger of the two ran for the side of the boat , perhaps in an attempt to dive over the side . |
| 12 | Next the Emperor made an attempt to push for the accession of Isabella 's son Alfonso , Prince of the Asturias . |
| 13 | It was his unexpected kindness that caused her jaw to clench suddenly in an attempt to stave off the hot tears scalding her eyes . |
| 14 | Admitting that the security forces were involved in a recent wave of kidnappings and murders of students , he said that his government did not have the means to combat the activities which had taken place over the past few months , aimed at creating a climate of terror and instability in order to justify an attempt to return to the past or the installation of a president who would promise a tough policy . |
| 15 | An attempt to match for the duration of the first and second stages of labour , the use of oxytocin , and the mode of delivery failed . |
| 16 | I have bought Practical PC since it first came out in an attempt to help with the strange world of computers and from reading it I think I might need a 286 or 386 PC — but how can I be sure and I still have n't the foggiest idea what most of the terminology means . |
| 17 | But this had been an attempt to land on the Spanish Main , and the Spanish felt much less concerned about the long string of small islands in the Lesser Antilles at the eastern end of the Caribbean . |
| 18 | News of the donation reached the UK press by June 6 and prompted a hostile reaction , as it was interpreted as an attempt to compensate for the killing of a policewoman , Yvonne Fletcher , outside the Libyan People 's Bureau in London in April 1984 [ see pp. 33004-05 ] . |
| 19 | In an attempt to compensate for the reduction of Soviet aid the government made serious efforts during 1990 to improve economic relations with its Asian neighbours , including Thailand , Indonesia and Taiwan . |
| 20 | Hobson 's Imperialism is important in our context not because of its impact on the development of Marxist theories of ‘ the last stage of capitalism ’ , but as an attempt to restate for the new century the fundamental principles of Cobdenite free trade . |
| 21 | Competition within the white collar section is another nail in the coffin and an attempt to reduce to the paying conditions . |
| 22 | It is again an attempt to retreat to the position that only those weapons are prohibited which are specifically referred to in a ratified treaty . |
| 23 | De Gaulle reacted sharply , not just because the evidence against Muselier appeared flimsy , but because he interpreted the British action as an attempt to interfere in the internal affairs of his organization . |
| 24 | In his work as in the present study , there has been an attempt to mediate between the physical world of practices as a determinant material structure and constructivist analysis of the material world as inseparable from the cognitive means of its appropriation . |
| 25 | ( Chapter 7 contains an attempt to follow through the implications for the internal life of institutions of their practising such a Habermas type communicative rationality . ) |
| 26 | If there was not , A might still believe that B was looking for something to steal , which could constitute an attempt to steal under the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 notwithstanding that there was nothing there that B would have stolen . |
| 27 | Four Cabinet Ministers , on the advice of the Attorney-General , signed declarations in an attempt to keep from the court documents which would have cleared the men . |
| 28 | The theory of the global system based on transnational practices is an attempt to escape from the limitations of state-centrism . |
| 29 | She said her colleague , PC Mark Whitehouse , 25 , had reversed the car in an attempt to escape from the gunman , but he had crashed into a fence . |
| 30 | Utilisation measured by admission rates at the small area level was used as the measure of need , with an attempt to adjust for the current level of supply of health care facilities . |