Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] attempts " in BNC.
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| 1 | To add to this confusion the steep-angled grass above is riddled with puffin burrows ; later in our stay we found that attempts to move tripods closer to the edge put us in real danger of disappearing downwards , compete with the odd half-acre of apparently stable cliff top . |
| 2 | In Venezia Giulia he reported that attempts to set up Allied Military Government ( AMG ) were being " flouted by Yugoslavs " and went on It is my considered opinion that unless we can support AMG in these areas by force if necessary we must withdraw rather than be flouted . " |
| 3 | The two rivals ' remarks came as attempts to negotiate a truce in the bitter struggle between parliament and Mr Yeltsin 's executive seemed close to collapse . |
| 4 | He called for the demobilization of police units in Croatia and the surrender of their weapons , and warned that attempts to change internal or external borders would not be tolerated . |
| 5 | The problems of physical shortages and the volume of highly liquid financial assets accumulated during the war ( high incomes during the war period , with few goods and services to be bought , led to high savings ) probably meant that attempts to regulate the economy by monetary means would have failed . |
| 6 | Generally , they did not agree with the style of campaigning witnessed on several major campuses , which they viewed as attempts to copy the ‘ bourgeois ’ elections of capitalist countries . |
| 7 | Bishop Patrick said that attempts to create a fairer and more just world were being blocked by business interests . |
| 8 | The Russian Defence Minister , Marshal Pavel Grachev , described the move as a " flagrant violation of all earlier accords " and said that attempts to seize Russian military hardware would lead to " armed clashes " . |