Example sentences of "attempt [to-vb] out [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be noted that there was here no attempt to carry out the balancing exercise required by article 10 and for that reason alone this decision is of little persuasive authority . |
| 2 | Rank 's attempt to carve out a niche in the American market failed because his films were too slow and talkative for transatlantic tastes . |
| 3 | Given what we now know , this is much more than the expected attempt to find out a demon 's identity , though it sounds very like it . |
| 4 | The Israeli Defence Forces ( IDF ) , moving beyond their self-declared " security zone " in southern Lebanon , entered UN-patrolled areas with tanks and troops on Feb. 15 in a widening attempt to wipe out the forces of militant Shia guerrilla organizations . |
| 5 | Temporarily withdrawing in an attempt to draw out the IRA , they returned to occupy the area for a further 36 hours ( Farrell , 1980:273 ) . |
| 6 | People close their windows at night in a vain attempt to shut out the sound of sirens and gunfire . |
| 7 | The federal government has spent $2–8 million drilling 1635 holes , injecting 122 556 tons of fly ash , and flushing 117 220 yards of sand into the burning tunnels in an attempt to put out the fire . |
| 8 | ERROR_RETURN_DETAIL — is a return parameter providing a report of errors encountered during the attempt to read out the package structure . |
| 9 | Floy had spent several hours in deep discussion with Snodgrass and , between them , they had made an attempt to sketch out the layout of Tara , so that they could see if there were any weak areas they might make use of . |
| 10 | Forgive my curiosity to see her : I prodded the ball of workers with a long stick , in a vain attempt to flush out the queen . |
| 11 | in a recent attempt to flush out the pike , sixteen specialist anglers paid a tenner apiece to attend an all night fishing match . |
| 12 | He decided to repeat the heating exercise in an attempt to force out the energy from the graphite . |
| 13 | To calculate the endurance factor , lines were drawn on the CAA half million map in an attempt to straighten out the coastline . |
| 14 | The first success disproved the thesis they ended up trying to vindicate , and they progressively discarded financial sanity in a crazy attempt to blot out the problems from their minds . |
| 15 | Like someone drowning , she fought for air , gasping and retching , covering her eyes in a futile attempt to blot out the memory of the crushed skull , the shattered features and the foul , oozing stain . |
| 16 | They interviewed teachers , headmasters , parents , chiefs and their counsellors , local farmers and final year pupils in schools in an attempt to bring out a picture of the local and school environment and of needs and aspirations of young people and adults . |