Example sentences of "'s attempt [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Spanish Civil War began in July 1936 when a Moorish legion invaded southern Spain in support of General Franco 's attempt to overthrow the socialist-dominated Spanish Republican government . |
| 2 | Even more surprising is Glenny 's attempt to fudge the fundamental issues of the Balkan conflict . |
| 3 | Callaghan also found the Americans sympathetic ( in contrast to the Europeans ) to Labour 's attempt to ease the 1964 balance of payments crisis with a temporary 15 per cent import surcharge . |
| 4 | They also rejected Mazowiecki 's attempt to transform the civic committees into a single political party loyal to him . |
| 5 | THE PENCIL OF NATURE was Talbot 's attempt to acquaint the general public with the characteristics and scope of his process , which in 1841 he had decisively improved [ and called the Calotype ) . |
| 6 | These names have a personal connotation and , according to Gandhi , are simply man 's attempt to define the mysterious , invincible force that pervades all things . |
| 7 | Greenpeace 's attempt to investigate the environmental effects of the former Soviet Union 's nuclear dumping off the island of Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Ocean [ see also below ] has been thwarted by the Russian coastguard . |
| 8 | He began by telling the machine all about Zambia , to which it responded sagely , ‘ In humanity 's attempt to obtain the best of both genders , it appears to have harvested the worst . ’ |
| 9 | He returned to England and became the leading supporter of Edward Baliol [ q.v. ] in Baliol 's attempt to secure the Scottish throne for himself and the restoration of their lands for the disinherited . |
| 10 | Ollokot overtook them and joined a group of warriors in resisting Captain Benteen 's attempt to outflank the fleeing families . |
| 11 | It will be the ninth occasion that Twickenham has represented the last hurdle in Scotland 's attempt to capture the Triple Crown and only once — Wilson Shaw 's match in 1938 — has the elusive prize been garnered . |
| 12 | The serenity , then , belongs to the poet , not to the myth : it lies precisely in the poet 's attempt to palliate the dark truths that the myth represents . |
| 13 | Brooke-Rose 's attempt to integrate the creative and the scholarly seems , as one reviewer remarks , ‘ a shade voulu ’ ( Wyndham 1957:491 ) , a problem which haunts Murdoch 's work as well . |
| 14 | Calman 's attempt to intimidate the smaller boy ended in failure . |
| 15 | NEIL KINNOCK 'S attempt to defuse the long-standing controversy over black sections looks set for a conference defeat . |
| 16 | Among the financial disasters of this policy were the state 's attempt to rescue the failed Rothwell merchant bank , and a joint venture with the Bond corporation involving a petrochemical plant which was never built . |
| 17 | THE FA 's attempt to outlaw the professional foul , vetoed by Fifa seven years ago , may now receive official backing from the world body , writes David Lacey . |