Example sentences of "attempt [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is an attempt to preserve the special protections for public bodies contained in Order 53 while at the same time limiting the application of those protections to cases where they are necessary and suitable . |
| 2 | Nowadays record collectors have accepted this process , and only complain if they hear an imperfect edit , while record producers exercise their skills in an attempt to preserve the spontaneous qualities of a performance as well as the note-perfect quality . |
| 3 | Addressing the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet , he described the compromise programme as " an attempt to preserve the administrative-bureaucratic system " which would " lead the country to catastrophe " , and accused the central authorities of deliberately sabotaging the Russian Federation 's plan to proceed with the Shatalin programme from Nov. 1 . |
| 4 | The move was seen as an attempt to bolster the falling level of public support for his administration by addressing the two crucial issues of national unity and the economy . |
| 5 | Most countries in the world attempt to monitor the total value of their output , or gross national product . |
| 6 | The attempt to see the Christian message in the secular world ended up in seeing the secular world in the Christian message and then in confusing the two . |
| 7 | Even more surprising is Glenny 's attempt to fudge the fundamental issues of the Balkan conflict . |
| 8 | This is the launch of the government 's latest attempt to conserve the endangered countryside . |
| 9 | This study was performed in an attempt to estimate the mucosal activity of neutrophils in ulcerative colitis and elucidate the possible neutrophil activating role certain cytokines may exert . |
| 10 | An attempt to estimate the cumulative effect of thematic map errors in digital overlay analysis has been made by Newcomer and Szajgin ( 1984 ) . |
| 11 | The accusations of incompetence after the botched attempt to support the anti-Noriega coup in October had stung the Bush Administration . |
| 12 | The general climate of the times was all too apparent as riots broke out in Spa Fields in London in late 1816 , followed in due course by the March of the Blanketeers , the Pentrich Rebellion in Derbyshire , the Peterloo Massacre and that desperate attempt to kill the entire cabinet known as the Cato Street Conspiracy . |
| 13 | Despite the attempt to treat the Pythagorean example as an exception , it can not but weaken Goody 's case . |
| 14 | The action was alleged to have been initiated around Jan. 22 , at about the same time as other Kuwaiti oil wells and storage tanks had been set alight in an apparent attempt to disrupt the allied air campaign . |
| 15 | The Model School is seen as an attempt to implement the successful education programme that the Open School operates , into a full-time , fully fledged inner city school . |
| 16 | As Table 10.1 indicates , this is an example of an attempt to implement the rational model of decision making discussed in the previous chapter . |
| 17 | Such was Britain 's brave attempt to evade the dreaded axiom . |
| 18 | ( It is , in fact , an attempt to capitalize the total marketing effect . ) |
| 19 | This is the first attempt to compare the biliary cholesterol metastability of paired hepatic and gall bladder bile between the patients with cholesterol gall stones and the gall stone free patients . |
| 20 | Of these the most disturbing has been the tendency of the European centralists to dismiss as treasonable any attempt to debate the precise form of a united Europe . |
| 21 | Established within days of the outbreak of war , the UDC represented the most ambitious attempt to sustain the mental world of pre-1914 pacifism . |
| 22 | To Gosse , this was just an appearance ; and his book was ‘ an attempt to untie the geological knot ’ , though it might seem rather to cut it . |
| 23 | Greece thus offers not only the first instance of this change but also the essential one for any attempt to isolate the cultural consequences of alphabetic literacy ’ ( ibid. p. 42 ) . |
| 24 | In religions , the ritual of sacrifice , and Holy Communion in the Christian mass , is in part an attempt to re-enact the original parricide . |
| 25 | Although the reforms had the support of the Tsar and in 1667–68 a church council anathematized those who refused to conform , the attempt to impose the new liturgy by force proved unsuccessful . |
| 26 | The attempt to impose the rational management of a whole society by means of complex organization produces a political system that can be characterized as ‘ bureaucracy writ large ’ . |
| 27 | Every analysis of style , in our terms , is an attempt to find the artistic principles underlying a writer 's choice of language . |
| 28 | And he adds that the GCSE can be seen ‘ as a final attempt to adjust the classical approach [ to education ] to cater for everybody … before the instrumental barbarian hordes establish an alternative empire ’ . |
| 29 | The stark desire in his face threatened to take what strength she had left , nor did he make any attempt to hide the blatant response of his body to that consuming , passionate kiss , continuing to hold her so tightly that she could feel him with every part of her being , could still taste him inside her mouth . |
| 30 | Mr Fuchs 's champions say that he made no attempt to hide the financial problems that had arisen during his previous post when he was employed by The Hague . |