Example sentences of "all attempts [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the professional politicians there could be little opposition , partly because the key men had been arrested but largely because all attempts to rouse the people made by those still at liberty failed dismally . |
| 2 | Almost all attempts to improve the lot of the serfs in the previous two or three generations had failed because they depended on the gentry 's goodwill . |
| 3 | But on 7 June , when all attempts to relieve the fort had failed , the exhausted survivors had no option but to surrender . |
| 4 | All attempts to link the countries more closely together through the Council of Europe , the most appropriate body because of the wide spread of its membership , did not get very far . |
| 5 | All attempts to lift the blockade promoted by the powerful Azerbaijani Popular Front have failed . |
| 6 | Doctors do n't thin about donation until all attempts to save the patient have failed . |
| 7 | She treated coldly all attempts to dab the scent on her own sleeve , rejected any suggestion that it could suitably be tried out on Owen and Mahmoud , and insisted that it be tested on a woman , an assistant , perhaps , or , preferably , the shopkeeper 's wife , a suggestion which , with its hint of superiority , would have had shopkeepers in the more Westernized parts of the city grovelling but was treated simply commercially in the bazaar . |
| 8 | ( WESLEY ) The voles are foiling all attempts to landscape the banks of the motorway . |
| 9 | If , despite all efforts of encouragement , there is a member of staff who is consistently negative and undermines all attempts to make the school a better place engage in firm action . |