Example sentences of "attempt [to-vb] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the UK failed in its attempt to head off the EC Commission , even though it made a last-minute offer to bring forward compliance of five water supplies contaminated with nitrate , from 1995 to 1991–4 , ‘ a shift , ’ according to ENDS , ‘ which , until then , the UK had insisted would be impractical . ’ |
| 2 | Government forces , suffering heavy casualties in their attempts to break through the KNU 's defences , on Dec. 28 , 1989 , finally overran the KNU 's Phalu camp , located 25 km south of the border town of Myawadi , in a loop of the Moei river ( known in Myanma as the Thaungyin river ) forming the border with Thailand . |
| 3 | They clearly regarded themselves and their working methods in a different light — witness the frequent attempts to break into the Schudi-Kirckman duopoly in the harpsichords of Faulkner , John Hitchcock and Baker Harris . |
| 4 | Cummins has offered him a senior position with the company and the chance to spearhead its attempts to break into the East European engine market . |
| 5 | The new job flexibility has required a break-up of old trade union structures and attempts to emulate in the UK systems of labour relation based on Japanese and some US examples . |