Example sentences of "attempt [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three related complaints concerned a National Executive Committee 's attempt to renege upon a ten year old conference agreement without a vote at conference . |
| 2 | ‘ It is difficult to judge how far this attempt to appeal to the baser sort is dictated by the mere desire to be re-elected ( which , though by no means admirable , is , we suppose , understandable enough ) , rather than by any firm conviction ; or how far a re-elected Tory government would seek to put these detestable principles into practice . |
| 3 | Yet there can be little doubt that Joseph 's reformism was genuine and was combined with an attempt to appeal to the national past ; he encouraged the national theatre , set up a commission to exhume Cervantes ' remains , patronized a national museum of painting . |
| 4 | They produced an attempt to cope with the repressed memory in the form of Christianity , where a son was offered as a sacrifice to the father . |
| 5 | Utilisation measured by admission rates at the small area level was used as the measure of need , with an attempt to adjust for the current level of supply of health care facilities . |
| 6 | Charlie is unaware of the spirits alive in him , so that the narrator of the story is frustrated in his attempt to come at the uncluttered account of past lives . |
| 7 | One was the American Eagle Andy Dujakovich who set a new aquaplane world record when he slid , in a curtain of spray , from just inside his own half past the opposition 10 metre line in an attempt to swoop on an errant Puma . |
| 8 | A speechwriter 's attempt to compensate for the public relations lapse in not going to the Berlin Wall , Mr Bush 's prime time statement went out on all television channels on Thanksgiving Eve . |
| 9 | It is an attempt to conform to a divine reality and standard that the soul can not ‘ see ’ at this early stage but which she has to take on faith . |
| 10 | She does not expect her readers to accept her own conclusions verbatim , but urges them to make a similar creative attempt to listen for the deeper implications of the Christian message , to reach through the dogmas and intellectual propositions , which can never do justice to the ineffable mystery of the divine , and touch the heart of the faith . |
| 11 | If there was not , A might still believe that B was looking for something to steal , which could constitute an attempt to steal under the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 notwithstanding that there was nothing there that B would have stolen . |
| 12 | In a rejoinder to Darling 's criticisms , Kirk ( 1978 ) , a member of the committee , points out the specific references in the report to the weakness of Hirst 's approach , and the addition of appeals to the social usefulness of educational activities ( something foreign to Hirst who was concerned primarily with intrinsic worth ) as evidence of an attempt to look beyond a cognitive based curriculum . |
| 13 | An attempt to look at the overall picture was made by the Royal Commission on Legal Services : its recommendations were widely criticised and largely ignored . |
| 14 | I have bought Practical PC since it first came out in an attempt to help with the strange world of computers and from reading it I think I might need a 286 or 386 PC — but how can I be sure and I still have n't the foggiest idea what most of the terminology means . |
| 15 | Hobson 's Imperialism is important in our context not because of its impact on the development of Marxist theories of ‘ the last stage of capitalism ’ , but as an attempt to restate for the new century the fundamental principles of Cobdenite free trade . |
| 16 | A last desperate attempt to escape into the murky waters . |
| 17 | I pull my battledress jacket over my head in a forlorn attempt to escape from the tiny tormentors ; sleep is impossible . |
| 18 | or , Thomas ( c. 1490–1555 ) , king 's printer under Henry VIII , was probably born about 1490 , since in his earliest testimony , under the surname Bercula , he named himself as printer and servant to John Rastell [ q.v. ] during the latter 's unsuccessful attempt to sail to the new world in 1517 . |
| 19 | But Michael Oppenheimer , chief scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund , described it as " mere window-dressing — an attempt to buy off the developing world " . |
| 20 | It also put pressure on Mr Sherwood to call the company 's long-delayed annual meeting to consider the bid by saying it would demand an extraordinary meeting in an attempt to vote in a new board of directors . |
| 21 | Some sections of the local press , however , stated that a " sudden " reshuffle of this size was Zamora 's attempt to deal with a real crisis and the corruption which allegedly existed within ministerial bodies . |
| 22 | Here at least is an honourable attempt to deal with a serious theme ; though based on a true story , it still leaves a lingering suspicion that life is not quite so neat . |
| 23 | Pressures for a particular settlement in the Church , in other words , emerged from within society before the establishment of the new regime ; the eventual religious settlement worked out did not so much create the religious problem but rather was an attempt to deal with a religious problem that already existed , although in doing so the government inevitably created new religious tensions in the process . |
| 24 | It is an attempt to deal with a prevalent problem , but I fear a distortion — the Government are considering only one aspect of the issue . |
| 25 | The strategies of splitting are essential for the infant 's attempt to deal with the genuine contradictions it encounters in struggling to form some image of itself and the part-objects it confronts . |
| 26 | Despite this , the SGA 1979 does make some attempt to deal with the Scottish dilemma vis à vis non-possessory security interests through the insertion of s61(4) of the 1893 Act ( now s62(4) of the 1979 Act ) , a provision specifically drafted for Scotland but which also applies to England . |
| 27 | Now do n't take that too literally , certainly in sub zero temperatures and I think the first of December and to do so would I think er have er maybe with some risk of being in 's phrase stark raving bonkers but by that you may think I mean that I think we made a fair attempt to deal with the three principle issues which have caused so much annoyance to user groups , there 's a backlog in modification orders . |
| 28 | In America this is an open attempt to put across a particular view to Members of Congress . |
| 29 | For all Mellor 's protestations that the tabloids brought him down in an attempt to dictate to the Prime Minister who should be in his Cabinet , the truth is that the Heritage Secretary was rejected by his peers . |
| 30 | Yon Yonson married her in an evident attempt to qualify for the Irish dole . |