Example sentences of "attempt [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The port principally connected with this was Bristol , and it may have been the existence of surplus tonnage that led its seamen to turn their attention to new ventures in the fifteenth century , including both attempts to penetrate the Mediterranean trade and the later voyages into the Atlantic . |
| 2 | However , the split-brain findings may not apply to normal subjects , and attempts to compare the relative effects of damage to left and right sides of the brain are notoriously fraught with problems . |
| 3 | Band attempts to hit the high notes |
| 4 | Attempts to restore the immune system are more likely to succeed if anti-viral therapy is used at the same time . |
| 5 | There have been attempts to estimate the economic cost of corporate crimes and render these in a meaningful fashion ( Bequai 1978 : 1 ; Clinard 1978 : 83–102 ; Conklin 1977 : 2–8 ; Geis 1975 : 95–7 ; Hills 1971 : 167–68 ; McCaghy 1976 : 205 ; President 's Task Force Report 1967 : 47–51 ; Stotland 1977:180–82 ) . |
| 6 | Hence Lapasset 's risible attempts to silence the English choirs . |
| 7 | Declining fish numbers are threatening attempts to reintroduce the bald eagle , which used to breed in large numbers in the area until the 1950s . |
| 8 | There have been many , sometimes conflicting , attempts to classify the main functions of language ( macro-functions ) . |
| 9 | Attempts to provide the necessary cohesion are made , for example , by the organisers of the international biennial conferences on continuum models of discrete systems . |
| 10 | We feel it is important that clinicians using ivalon are aware of this reaction , which might be a frequent occurrence especially when the operator attempts to plug the entire length of the biopsy tract in a patient with a coagulopathy . |
| 11 | Its attempts to strangle the revolutionary movement at birth during May 1968 were consistent with the approach taken over the previous 30 years , including the immediate postwar period ( part I ) . |
| 12 | It is reasonable to associate a number of distinctive policies with the presence of Mrs Thatcher — the economic strategy , attempts to contain the public sector , toleration of high unemployment , reduction in the powers of trade unions , privatization , the vigorous prosecution of the war in the Falklands , the community charge , education reforms , change in the civil service , and Britain 's refusal to join the EMS . |
| 13 | Throughout the 1970s all of these elements were to feature in the Council 's attempts to find the appropriate balances under its Charter , and to handle the increasingly complex range of subjects and institutions . |
| 14 | This chapter accordingly deals with the moral philosophy of punishment and attempts to relate the philosophical issues to the reality of penal systems such as that of England and Wales today . |
| 15 | It is an attempt to preserve the special protections for public bodies contained in Order 53 while at the same time limiting the application of those protections to cases where they are necessary and suitable . |
| 16 | Nowadays record collectors have accepted this process , and only complain if they hear an imperfect edit , while record producers exercise their skills in an attempt to preserve the spontaneous qualities of a performance as well as the note-perfect quality . |
| 17 | Addressing the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet , he described the compromise programme as " an attempt to preserve the administrative-bureaucratic system " which would " lead the country to catastrophe " , and accused the central authorities of deliberately sabotaging the Russian Federation 's plan to proceed with the Shatalin programme from Nov. 1 . |
| 18 | The move was seen as an attempt to bolster the falling level of public support for his administration by addressing the two crucial issues of national unity and the economy . |
| 19 | Most countries in the world attempt to monitor the total value of their output , or gross national product . |
| 20 | The attempt to see the Christian message in the secular world ended up in seeing the secular world in the Christian message and then in confusing the two . |
| 21 | Even more surprising is Glenny 's attempt to fudge the fundamental issues of the Balkan conflict . |
| 22 | This is the launch of the government 's latest attempt to conserve the endangered countryside . |
| 23 | This study was performed in an attempt to estimate the mucosal activity of neutrophils in ulcerative colitis and elucidate the possible neutrophil activating role certain cytokines may exert . |
| 24 | An attempt to estimate the cumulative effect of thematic map errors in digital overlay analysis has been made by Newcomer and Szajgin ( 1984 ) . |
| 25 | The accusations of incompetence after the botched attempt to support the anti-Noriega coup in October had stung the Bush Administration . |
| 26 | The general climate of the times was all too apparent as riots broke out in Spa Fields in London in late 1816 , followed in due course by the March of the Blanketeers , the Pentrich Rebellion in Derbyshire , the Peterloo Massacre and that desperate attempt to kill the entire cabinet known as the Cato Street Conspiracy . |
| 27 | Despite the attempt to treat the Pythagorean example as an exception , it can not but weaken Goody 's case . |
| 28 | The action was alleged to have been initiated around Jan. 22 , at about the same time as other Kuwaiti oil wells and storage tanks had been set alight in an apparent attempt to disrupt the allied air campaign . |
| 29 | The Model School is seen as an attempt to implement the successful education programme that the Open School operates , into a full-time , fully fledged inner city school . |
| 30 | As Table 10.1 indicates , this is an example of an attempt to implement the rational model of decision making discussed in the previous chapter . |