Example sentences of "attempt [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The classic case is the famous opening scene of Le bourgeois gentilhomme , in which a hopelessly inept student , singing soprano , attempts to perform a languorous love song . |
| 2 | They may also partly explain the limited success of attempts to induce a full programme of T-cell development using either monolayer cultures of a single thymic stromal cell type , or cocktails of cytokines . |
| 3 | However , creditors or other claimants whose attempts to sue a subsidiary go unsatisfied remain unlikely to be able to probe behind the separate legal personality of the companies to challenge the parent . |
| 4 | Furthermore , in the case of the Netherlands , von Beyme ( 1980 ) sees the tendency towards decentralisation in the early 1970s as a reaction to the failure of attempts to promote a central incomes policy — which had been pursued more strongly than in other countries . |
| 5 | The Diary 's attempts to arrange a late night drink with her ( ‘ she has to be home by 10.30 , ’ said her secretary , stealing 90 minutes on Cinderella ) were re-routed into breakfast at 8.15am . |
| 6 | Despite valiant attempts to mount a large multi-media show to mark Robert Adam 's bicentenary in London and Edinburgh this year , it eventually fell to the latter city to honour the great designer with a group of exhibitions during its recent Festival . |
| 7 | The Human Relations movement of Mayo and his colleagues based on the Hawthorne Studies and Mayo 's wartime research into absenteeism and labour turnover , attempts to preserve a Taylorist division of labour through new forms of persuasion ( Clegg 1979 , pp. 132–7 ) . |
| 8 | This book attempts to sustain a detailed analysis of the mass media based on the fruits of this cross-fertilization . |
| 9 | Any infringement of the owner 's exclusive rights will be resisted , and for this reason , if no other , attempts to provide a planned resolution of the conflict between farming and the environment will prove difficult . |
| 10 | Attempts to provide a similar scheme related to earnings , but as part of state provision , resulted in the 1975 Social Security Pension Act 1975 , which came into operation in 1978 . |
| 11 | Thus , attempts to provide a uniform level of social welfare in rural areas means centralisation of services in schooling , health and housing , which gives rise to migration away from isolated areas . |
| 12 | The first presents an overview of the main demographic trends in Britain during this century and attempts to provide a considered overview of these population changes . |
| 13 | It seeks to explore the effect of situation , ethnicity , life style and sex on the speech of these young people , and attempts to provide a theoretical framework for the analysis of psychological , sociological and grammatical determinants of code-switching behaviour . |
| 14 | Attempts to establish a comprehensive scheme to include more hymns and to cover all publishers have so far been unsuccessful . |
| 15 | The Malaysian government expressed concern over the agreement and warned that , along with other ASEAN countries , it would oppose any attempts to establish a new US naval base in Singapore . |
| 16 | This alliance of opposition frustrated all attempts to establish a professional police until Peel 's 1829 Metropolitan Police Act . |
| 17 | Previous attempts to establish a common tariff had foundered on the objections of the smaller CARICOM members , who feared that it would have a negative impact upon their economies . |
| 18 | The larger charities — which have recently formed a group known as Research for Health Charities to respond to criticism of the use of animals in experiments — also feel that Wolfson 's stand undermines their attempts to establish a united front . |
| 19 | Attempts to establish a British colony in Virginia had been made by Sir Walter Raleigh in the 1580s . |
| 20 | The Soviet contention that military bases in the Third World could generate dangerous East-West tensions was forcibly and unexpectedly underlined by the crisis initiated by Soviet attempts to establish a nuclear missile base on Cuban soil in 1962 . |
| 21 | These are not necessarily forces for continuity but they may act as barriers to government attempts to impose a new line of policy . |
| 22 | THE LABOUR leadership won a narrow victory over hard-line opponents of civil nuclear power yesterday when the conference rejected attempts to impose a strict deadline for phasing it out . |
| 23 | Liberal attempts to find a middle way between radical demands for outright confiscation of noble land and conservative rejection of land reform failed to save the Second Duma . |
| 24 | Regrettably the customer 's daughter died following unsuccessful attempts to find a suitable donor for a heart-lung transplant . |
| 25 | Attempts to find a medical explanation had failed and police had been called in , he told Nottingham Crown Court , where a former nurse , Beverley Allitt , faced 26 charges , including four of murder . |
| 26 | There had been many unsuccessful attempts to find a satisfactory solution but none of them , unlike the present invention , actually worked . |
| 27 | Many people were by this time weary of the various attempts to find a satisfactory form of government and they believed the return of the monarchy was the best solution . |
| 28 | While she , Paige , had to duck and dive , in fruitless attempts to shake a limpet-like pursuit in order to keep up the chase . |
| 29 | ‘ Contemporary design ’ , the magazine 's editor regretted , ‘ because it has no roots in the vernacular idiom … will not appear immediately familiar ’ , whilst the ‘ mock-Tudor and the mock-Georgian styles which have been so prevalent — no matter how misguided in themselves — have sprung … from a genuine attempt to preserve a traditional atmosphere ’ . |
| 30 | Iran 's oil sales to the US and assets there were frozen by the Carter administration , whose later attempt to mount a Hollywood-style rescue ended in the desert at Tabas in an ignominious collision of aircraft . |