Example sentences of "attempt [to-vb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This reconstruction of Rawls ' argument for the doctrine of neutral political concern attempts to found it on the notion of autonomy through the notion of moral self-determination . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This chapter is an account of the process and is an attempt to see it from the family 's perspective . |
| 4 | Any attempt to evade it for the sake of the ‘ purity of the ‘ socialist ideal ’ ’ , 'he warned , would simply lead to a further expansion of the bureaucratic apparatus and to the dictatorship of the producer . |
| 5 | He had been foiled in his first attempt to reach it by the arrival of Jos , and ever since it had been impossible to get away unnoticed . |
| 6 | Henry VIII was horrified by what he understood of Luther 's theology , and , in an attempt to rebut it during the early 1520s , he wrote with the help of a number of court scholars the theological tract The Assertion of the Seven Sacraments , for which he was rewarded by the pope with the title ‘ Defender of the Faith ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ During the time we had the picture in our possession , in an attempt to keep it off the international art market we consulted the criminal police , and attempted to put the picture on the index of important works of art which can not leave Germany . |
| 8 | But the humanities comprise a number of disciplines and subjects , of which English is only one ; the Leavisite attempt to turn it into the Queen of the Sciences never looked like succeeding . |
| 9 | A first attempt to introduce it in the 1850s failed . |
| 10 | By then southern and eastern England had been extensively ravaged , and £137,000 paid in attempts to rid it of the enemy . |
| 11 | Given this continuing policy vacuum on the one hand and the implacable opposition of the judiciary to any attempts to fill it on the other , it is not altogether surprising that few attempts have been made to fashion an overall criminal justice strategy that would bring together sentencing and penal policy . |
| 12 | : ’ Speaking in London almost a year after becoming Chairman of British Coal , Mr. Clarke said — What we are seeing is a sort of energy arms race , with attempts to justify it on the grounds of guaranteeing security , diversity and competition — but in reality , guaranteeing nothing but higher electricity prices , a rapid abandonment of other fuel reserves , and reliance on as yet unproven overseas resources . ' |
| 13 | If the bat 's brain hears an echo from another bat 's cry , and attempts to incorporate it into the picture of the world that it has previously built up , it will make no sense . |
| 14 | During the early months of 1990 Avril 's response to the growing opposition had included attempts to suppress it through the imposition in January of a " state of siege " , followed by efforts to defuse it through the promise of free elections [ see p. 37182 ] . |
| 15 | But it is a deeply conservative trade which has resolutely resisted most attempts to bring it into the twentieth century , to make it more efficient , or to make access to the law more available to the ordinary citizen . |