Example sentences of "a attempt [to-vb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The theory of the global system based on transnational practices is an attempt to escape from the limitations of state-centrism . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Is the Minister 's very carefully worded reply an attempt to distract from the fact that the proportion of the elderly in the population is increasing and will continue to do so ? |
| 5 | The proposals were given a cautious welcome by politicians on the left , but the right-wing parties decried them as an attempt to distract from the President 's and the government 's current unpopularity . |