Example sentences of "attempts [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the split-brain findings may not apply to normal subjects , and attempts to compare the relative effects of damage to left and right sides of the brain are notoriously fraught with problems . |
| 2 | Band attempts to hit the high notes |
| 3 | Hence Lapasset 's risible attempts to silence the English choirs . |
| 4 | There have been many , sometimes conflicting , attempts to classify the main functions of language ( macro-functions ) . |
| 5 | Throughout the 1970s all of these elements were to feature in the Council 's attempts to find the appropriate balances under its Charter , and to handle the increasingly complex range of subjects and institutions . |
| 6 | This chapter accordingly deals with the moral philosophy of punishment and attempts to relate the philosophical issues to the reality of penal systems such as that of England and Wales today . |
| 7 | Thus the Social Charter addressed both the conditions necessary for the completion of the SEM , and attempts to create the social guarantees that the Commission regards as essential to maintain broad political support for these developments , i.e. " social cohesion " . |
| 8 | The pertinence of these arguments to Latin American reality was borne out most clearly by the failure of both rural guerrilla warfare ( powerfully symbolised by the death of Che Guevara in Bolivia in 1967 ) and of attempts to apply the same tactics in an urban situation . |
| 9 | This section attempts to identify the major strengths and weaknesses of these two systems . |
| 10 | This was one of the first serious attempts to record the real lives of ordinary working people . |
| 11 | His request was refused , and attempts to persuade the English courts to order the alteration failed when he was refused legal aid . |
| 12 | During the 1970s , governments have made several attempts to rectify the geographical inequalities of hospital provision . |
| 13 | This can be seen in attempts to divide the contrary themes of ‘ I 'm not prejudiced but … ’ into separate levels ; by claiming that one of the contrary themes possesses a deeper psychological significance , one resolves the apparent contradiction . |
| 14 | Despite the fact that his previous attempts to draw the western democracies away from the Soviet Union had borne no fruit , Franco wrote to Churchill on 18 October 1944 to propose an anti-Bolshevik alliance and to state his belief that Spain should take part in any post-war peace conference . |
| 15 | ‘ These people , striving for power , should understand once and for all : any attempts to draw the armed forces into the political struggle are criminal and fraught with danger . ’ |
| 16 | As people adopt wilder and wilder attempts to keep the bad feelings down , so it is ever more likely that these feelings will bounce up and hit them even harder in return . |
| 17 | His attempts to subject the traditional rulers of the provinces to his authority had resulted in constant warfare , and the extortions of his army , forever in the field , caused much discontent . |
| 18 | But Ridley 's attempts to expose the lush cornfields of Fifties middle America as a stunted psychic wasteland are ultimately carried by his visual confidence and imagination . |
| 19 | A geometry of curves has evolved from attempts to solve the spacial problems of engineers , architects and astronomers in terms of the physical , sensory and emotional properties of lines . |
| 20 | It is through their confidence in the adequacy of a paradigm that scientists are able to devote their energies to attempts to solve the detailed puzzles presented to them within the paradigm , rather than engage in disputes about the legitimacy of their fundamental assumptions and methods . |
| 21 | When this is not the case there will almost certainly , however , be periodic attempts to reconcile the two sets of accounts , by comparing the profit shown in the financial accounts with that revealed in the cost accounts . |
| 22 | Johannes Hevelius , a prosperous brewer of Danzig ( now Gdansk ) , made the first attempts to name the lunar features on his map of 1647 . |
| 23 | This teleological approach , which presents revolutions of the sixteenth century as failed attempts to realise the political programmes of the Enlightenment , runs through Le Roy Ladurie 's work , and informs his attitude to specific classes of phenomena . |
| 24 | Their policies culminated in attempts to turn the young towns into vast cooperative centres , by bringing industry to the settlements . |
| 25 | The evidence also suggests that , in the two weeks between the Prime Minister 's return from Guadeloupe and the subsequent attempts to settle the public-service strikes , there was a remarkable absence of initiative in the Cabinet and Whitehall and an unusual mood of despondency in Number 10 Downing Street . |
| 26 | Past attempts to remove the old leaders have all failed . |
| 27 | Attempts to change the land-based activities that cause coastal pollution would have far-reaching economic , political and social consequences . |
| 28 | It was also urged that science should progress by the proposal of bold , highly falsifiable conjectures as attempts to solve problems , followed by ruthless attempts to falsify the new proposals . |
| 29 | Yet policy makers , planners and local government officials have a limited grasp of the historical development of nineteenth century cities and the project attempts to investigate the principal factors which governed that process , the problems it highlighted and the pitfalls which have been encountered and which need not be reproduced in the twentieth century given an awareness of a historical dimension . |
| 30 | As we have already seen , attempts to explain the rapid changes in complex behaviour simply in terms of contingent relations between behaviour and the environment have not been particularly successful . |