Example sentences of "the [adj] attempt by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Nick Cusack nearly put them ahead soon after with a 25 yard strike , saved at the second attempt by the County keeper . |
| 2 | Despite Puck 's wild leaps , crazy antics and turns , the clumsy attempts by the Mechanicals to ‘ cut capers ’ and Bottom 's efforts sur les pointes , it is Oberon and Titania 's dancing that commands the stage as well as those trapped in the ‘ magicked ’ Athenian wood . |
| 3 | The negotiations to prepare for Rio reflect the continuing attempt by the South to bring the North to the table to overcome over four decades of neglect on the growth and development of the South … |
| 4 | Two outstanding characteristics of labour law during the second half of that century were the intermittent recognition by politicians in government and Parliament that control of trade unionism by the imposition of penalties was of doubtful efficacy ; and the recurrent attempts by the courts to preserve the penal method . |
| 5 | The first attempt by the Arab states to formulate a unified response to the invasion came late on Aug. 3 , over 40 hours after Iraqi troops first crossed into Kuwait . |
| 6 | Morland 's has fought off the first attempt by the Suffolk based company Greene King to takeover it and its three hundred pubs … |
| 7 | Phillipson has pointed to more direct state management of retirement , in order to regulate the size of the labour force , yet the well-known attempts by the government to induce retirees back to work after the Second World War were notable for their lack of success ; the reserve army of elderly labour was highly resistant to re-enlistment . |
| 8 | Aung San Suu Kyi 's expulsion from the NLD , some two months after she had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize , was the latest attempt by the ruling junta , the State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , to undermine her position as the main symbol of opposition to military rule . |
| 9 | Monetary policy is the deliberate attempt by the authorities ( a ) to control the supply of money , or ( b ) to control interest rates , or ( c ) to ration the amount of credit granted by banks . |
| 10 | We need look no further than the police handling of the Poll Tax demonstrators in March 1990 and the subsequent attempt by the then Home Secretary to turn this into an issue of law and order . |