Example sentences of "[adj] attempts [to-vb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every sunset the apes would return from their day 's foraging to sleep in the branches of this giant tree , and we were driven to distraction by our repeated attempts to film them properly in the few seconds after they arrived and before the sun set . |
| 2 | The political implication is that blacks should be self-assertive and proud of their black identity and not rely on well-meaning attempts to assimilate them into white society . |
| 3 | The Turks might try to tax , or offer administrative salaries to Zuwaya who were willing to participate in government ; but Zuwaya always resisted these attempts to bring them into the reach of government . |
| 4 | Some areas of study are so hard of definition that they seem to evade all attempts to summarise them . |
| 5 | Germans were resentful of France 's post-war attempts to keep them under close control , and it could not automatically be expected that they would agree to join European institutions . |
| 6 | The enterprise of science consists in the proposal of highly falsifiable hypotheses , followed by deliberate and tenacious attempts to falsify them . |
| 7 | This chapter examines the gender imbalances among psychologists , and analyses egalitarian attempts to rectify them . |
| 8 | But the overwhelming size of the response to an initiative like ‘ Childline ’ indicates that it would be dangerous to conclude that young people do not have problems even if first attempts to tap them fail . |
| 9 | Since then , the Americans until now have at best ignored Ukrainian efforts to achieve real independence , and the Russians ' occasional attempts to thwart them . |
| 10 | As he made furious attempts to shake them off , a sheet of orange abruptly whooshed and enveloped the car . |
| 11 | I watched many abortive attempts to catch them , because these tiny crustaceans could sprint with amazing speed back to their burrows in the sand if they felt threatened . |