Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] attempts [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After unsuccessful attempts to sell his enormous stock of prints through public auctions he retired to his wife 's house , suitably named ‘ The Retreat ’ . |
| 2 | After four attempts to set our 45lb CQR in the thin sand-over-rock bottom , we gave up and put out a couple of 40lb Danforths , both of which bit hard on the first attempt . |
| 3 | Talks have been going on for weeks over the future of the Royal marriage , but despite repeated attempts to save it , the Queen finally decided it was all over on Tuesday afternoon . |
| 4 | Nonpublication of Liberal Democrat Press releases by your paper seems to be a common event , my colleagues inform me , despite repeated attempts to prompt your Editor . |
| 5 | Nor did it ever completely disappear , despite repeated attempts to extirpate it . |
| 6 | It was , however , the larger farming interests which gained most under the AAA and rural poverty — especially among the black population in the South — remained a desperate problem in spite of later attempts to solve it ( pp. 34 , 35–6 ) . |
| 7 | Section by section it was being revised in the commissions and then approved during the general congregations — despite last-minute attempts to modify it to contain an explicit condemnation of communism . |
| 8 | Despite three attempts to buy it and run it themselves , it 's been sold instead to another private bidder . |
| 9 | Despite all attempts to fulfil his artistic ideals by being in London and in contract with all the leading painters of the time , he found it strangely frustrating . |
| 10 | Despite desperate attempts to revive her , the trace remained stubbornly flat , until in the end they had to give up . |
| 11 | The court gave a stern warning against future attempts to scoop it . |
| 12 | Soldiers loyal to President Gnassingbe Eyadema , who was divested by the national conference in August of all but his ceremonial powers [ see p. 38379 ] , twice stormed the national radio and television station on Oct. 1 , in separate attempts to return him to power . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Given this continuing policy vacuum on the one hand and the implacable opposition of the judiciary to any attempts to fill it on the other , it is not altogether surprising that few attempts have been made to fashion an overall criminal justice strategy that would bring together sentencing and penal policy . |
| 15 | Soviet spokesmen warned the non-aligned states against succumbing to Western attempts to secure their support for American Rapid Deployment Forces . |
| 16 | What , then , are the main constraints on Soviet attempts to project its power into the sub-continent and to consolidate a strong economic presence there ? perhaps the most obvious and important factor to take into account is still the long-established and deeply entrenched socio-political and economic ascendancy of the United States of America . |
| 17 | To be truly modern means to accept the process of change without pathetic attempts to prevent it from running its course . |