Example sentences of "attempt [to-vb] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ( make ) Both in the same script : the difference in the attempt to spell the same word indicates fairly clearly a weak visual memory . |
2 | Thus , he claims IBM 's act of tearing up its price list was a purely symbolic gesture , simply an attempt to keep the same situation going . |
3 | Scientists have been holding a one-day strike in an attempt to get the same pay as their European colleagues . |
4 | As we shall see , the attempt to employ the same concepts to describe quite different tasks was a common phenomenon among young nationalists . |
5 | However welcome Bourdieu 's analysis of consumers may be when contrasted to the more common attempt to explain the same material as a simple expression of business interests , the book 's impact is not enhanced by its entirely ignoring the sphere of production . |
6 | The pertinence of these arguments to Latin American reality was borne out most clearly by the failure of both rural guerrilla warfare ( powerfully symbolised by the death of Che Guevara in Bolivia in 1967 ) and of attempts to apply the same tactics in an urban situation . |