Example sentences of "attempt [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Alan Clayson 's attempt to paint a clearer picture is severely hampered by Harrison 's refusal to co-operate , thus leaving Clayson to read every press clipping , interview anyone who ever knew him , and cobble together a book out of it . |
| 6 | Alan Clayson 's attempt to paint a clearer picture is severely hampered by Harrison 's refusal to co-operate , thus leaving Clayson to read every press clipping , interview anyone who ever knew him , and cobble together a book out of it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Most countries in the world attempt to monitor the total value of their output , or gross national product . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Even more surprising is Glenny 's attempt to fudge the fundamental issues of the Balkan conflict . |
| 12 | This is the launch of the government 's latest attempt to conserve the endangered countryside . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | An attempt to estimate the cumulative effect of thematic map errors in digital overlay analysis has been made by Newcomer and Szajgin ( 1984 ) . |
| 15 | The accusations of incompetence after the botched attempt to support the anti-Noriega coup in October had stung the Bush Administration . |
| 16 | There thus was widespread support for Saddam Hussein 's attempt to connect an Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait with an Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Despite the attempt to treat the Pythagorean example as an exception , it can not but weaken Goody 's case . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Hariri also blocked Jonah 's attempt to arrange a humanitarian aid package to the deportees who were stranded in freezing conditions with little food . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The attempt to enforce an evaluative criticism in the academy inevitably results in rigidity and dogmatism and , ultimately , a form of brainwashing . |
| 24 | Some took it as a great laugh ; others as a brave attempt to champion a little-known music ; and others just hated it . |
| 25 | Such was Britain 's brave attempt to evade the dreaded axiom . |
| 26 | ( It is , in fact , an attempt to capitalize the total marketing effect . ) |
| 27 | One view saw Suharto 's motive in encouraging greater activism on the part of Golkar as an attempt to acquire a reforming image to help counteract pressure on him to stand down before the 1993 election . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | And this is why your first attempt to conduct a great work will often end up as a disaster , because you do n't know where the real points of stress are , you do n't know how the piece is distributed . |