Example sentences of "a attempt [to-vb] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sweeney Agonistes , as much as the later prose of Arnold , is an attempt to come to terms with this situation and to react against it . |
| 2 | Alex giggled deep down in his stomach and his arms and legs met like a soft anemone over her hand in an attempt to come to terms with it . |
| 3 | The first two can be seen as being derived from history , both shared and private , while the third is an attempt to come to terms with and respond to current realities as they are being experienced . |
| 4 | Following her death , which country did Jonathan go to with Terry in an attempt to come to terms with her death , and who did he meet there ? ( 2 points ) . |
| 5 | With a mountain upbringing , Myles Horton developed the idea of Highlander in an attempt to come to grips with the problems which were really facing the mountain people of Appalachia and the rural south , the day to day problems which these communities perceived as being obstacles to them , rather than necessarily those which planners , developers and politicians were telling them about . |
| 6 | It is not an attempt to get to grips with the fundamental problems of this society . |