Example sentences of "[adj] attempt [verb] it in " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , any attempt to explicate the theme of the sequence is bound to run into peculiar difficulties , although there have been various attempts to interpret it in Christian , symbolist or political terms . |
| 2 | The highest summit in the world — accorded the status by British surveyors in the 1850s — Everest has been the crowning target for the world 's mountaineers since the first attempt to climb it in 1921 . |
| 3 | A first attempt to introduce it in the 1850s failed . |
| 4 | But because of its fierce realism and deep antipathy to authority ( whether it comes in the guise of nationalism or Catholicism , ) this culture is likely to resist any attempt to include it in the cosy consensus of Dublin as Europe 's cultural capital . |
| 5 | They could n't ignore the fact that they were to part , and neither of them made any attempt to avoid it in conversation . |
| 6 | The cockroach has a similarly high-speed existence and can react to any attempt to crush it in a fiftieth of a second , while our own reaction time is a tenth of a second . |