Example sentences of "[det] attempt [to-vb] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Keith Evans rightly reminded us , some attempts to stimulate and support resource-based learning resulted in " magnificently equipped Resource Centres with highly trained stall , from which teachers retreat , their confidence undermined ! " |
| 2 | I shall also argue that some attempts to adapt and interpret the National Curriculum for use with children who experience difficulties in learning compound these problems . |
| 3 | Military police have foiled what 's believed to have been another attempt to attack and mutilate horses . |
| 4 | ‘ These attempts to check and control the growing picture often led Zuwaya to correct and modify , to elaborate and qualify the image . |
| 5 | Nor can one omit , as an important contributing factor in his decline , the humiliating failure of his own attempts to write and direct a feature film , Yellowbeard , even after some drastic and , by Chapman 's own account , disastrous re-editing by the studio . |
| 6 | In any attempt to assess and understand the use and function , the economic and social benefits of community languages in the restricted domains of the work place and in the public services i.e. outside the domain of the household , it seems imperative that one look at the sociolinguistic and socioeconomic profiles of the different speech communities and the uses they can and do put their languages to . |
| 7 | Duodenal ulcer arises because aggressive forces outweigh duodenal defences and most attempts to study and treat it focus on acid-pepsin attack . |