Example sentences of "attempt [to-vb] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the process of gaining control over our lives involves us in resisting their attempts to box us in the pigeonhole of ‘ client ’ — and to expose their self-styled , self-seeking efforts to elevate their second-hand knowledge about disability into a ‘ profession ’ . |
| 2 | He smiled encouragingly , and Juliet was gratified by his attempt to include her in the conversation . |
| 3 | But because of its fierce realism and deep antipathy to authority ( whether it comes in the guise of nationalism or Catholicism , ) this culture is likely to resist any attempt to include it in the cosy consensus of Dublin as Europe 's cultural capital . |
| 4 | In 1318 , after an attempt to poison him in the previous year , John XXII thanked Margaret for sending him ‘ a certain knife-handle in serpentine form ’ which was reputed to detect poison . |
| 5 | The Buid resent the use of the term and the attempt to place them in the moral as well as material debt of the lowlanders . |
| 6 | A first attempt to introduce it in the 1850s failed . |