Example sentences of "attempt [to-vb] a [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Hariri also blocked Jonah 's attempt to arrange a humanitarian aid package to the deportees who were stranded in freezing conditions with little food . |
| 6 | Some took it as a great laugh ; others as a brave attempt to champion a little-known music ; and others just hated it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | An attempt to conduct a mock auction is proscribed under s1(1) of the Mock Auctions Act 1961 . |
| 10 | 758 , the trading centre at Ipswich seems to have been expanding and the first attempt to restore a southern coinage was made , predating Offa 's first issues and suggesting an impressive degree of independence on Beonna 's part . |
| 11 | Mud is being pumped out of the land-locked Alderfen Broad in Norfolk in an attempt to restore a rich water plant community and a healthy fish population . |
| 12 | The race build up has been disrupted by the controversy over an attempt to impose a minimum time limit of 1hr 50min , because of road closures . |
| 13 | The suppression of trade union and democratic rights by the military authorities is reflected in their attempt to impose a new trade union law in the absence of leaders , thus violating international conventions and agreements , including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights , to which Sudan is a signatory . |
| 14 | It suggests that the attempt to impose a neutral character on the liberal state and to purge its law of any substantive content can only serve to erode those moral and religious foundations which are essential for the survival of liberalism . |
| 15 | Clearly this is an attempt to impose a national screening and surveillance programme to monitor the health of older people . |
| 16 | The government 's attempt to impose a strict pay norm culminated in the so-called ‘ winter of discontent ’ . |
| 17 | Despite the attempt to impose a rigid status system , the division between farmers and warriors was never as clear cut as intended . |
| 18 | This method of narration allows the reader to take part in the initial experience , to share in the inquiry into its meaning from the start , and then to join in the subsequent dialogue with which Wordsworth engages ‘ the Mind out there ’ ( or the ‘ Wisdom and Spirit of the Universe ’ ) in his attempt to find a fuller explanation . |
| 19 | Jan. 15 In an apparent attempt to find a political solution , Siyad Barre announces appointment of " national reconciliation committee " ; rebels reject subsequent reports that USC has agreed to ceasefire . |
| 20 | A recent attempt to find a dynamical explanation for the observed motions of atomic and molecular gas in the central regions has provided independent evidence of a stellar bar forcing noncircular motions in the central regions . |
| 21 | They were having an intense and appropriately heated discussion on the problems of cold-spots ( as evinced by the fact that their first attempts came out looking like braille roundels ) , and on the unfortunate instability of three poppadoms balanced together — caused not so much by the jerk they received when the turntable started up as by their movements while they cooked and swelled — but eventually my flatmates settled on the concept of standing the things up individually on the glass turntable , and so instigated what they termed a ‘ brainstorming session ’ in an attempt to find a suitable support mechanism . |
| 22 | One generation had come to understand the trends within the International and the meaning of Stalinism , while another was ready to disregard such questions in an attempt to find a social solution to essentially personal problems " . |
| 23 | It was preoccupied above all else with the " attempt to find a social solution to essentially personal problems " : family conflicts , class origins , emotional traumas . |
| 24 | But classifying animals and plants , living and fossil , is more than just an attempt to find a convenient way of slotting them into different categories , like stamps in a stamp album , for neatness and convenience . |
| 25 | One promising line of further reconnaissance involved the attempt to find a fundamental role for waves where no one had previously supposed they were relevant . |
| 26 | Nevertheless we can say at least that his preoccupation with history has been consistent throughout : the articulation of repressed history in Madness and Civilization ( 1961 ) , the historicity of history in The Order of Things ( 1966 ) , the epistemic mutation of history and the theoretical difficulties of historiography in The Archaeology of knowledge ( 1969 ) , and the attempt to write a different kind of history , ‘ genealogy ’ , that demonstrates the emergence of new forms of power in Discipline and Punish ( 1975 ) and The History of Sexuality ( 1976–84 ) |
| 27 | Leading military and government officials , including Foreign Minister Abdol Wakil , immediately entered into urgent negotiations with the two mujaheddin commanders in an attempt to secure a peaceful transition . |
| 28 | Sadly , during his attempt to secure a direct line or three from Ms Sigourney Weaver he failed to grasp some obvious points . |
| 29 | Many suggested that the bill was a Democrat-inspired attempt to provoke a presidential veto . |
| 30 | They signed two protocols which amounted to an attempt to revive a 1987 security protocol directed against the Kurdish separatist guerrillas of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) , which Syria had not implemented . |