Example sentences of "attempt make " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Only in the latter days of the town 's life as a centre of county magnificence were any real attempts made to establish an overall urban form and both resulted in failure , at least as financial ventures . |
| 2 | By and large , despite the many attempts made to persuade Americans that FI is the top of motor sport , the Yanks remain unconvinced . |
| 3 | When in the late 1960s wages and unemployment began to move together and then to accelerate rapidly the Phillips curve became somewhat discredited , despite various theoretical attempts made to rescue it . |
| 4 | The romantic-lyrical ballad style of twentieth-century Tin Pan Alley clings stubbornly to its role in the representation of gender relations within the norms set by the stereotype of the bourgeois couple , despite attempts made from time to time to move it into new patterns with new meanings . |
| 5 | However , rarely are such rationales clearly worked out or attempts made to provide evidence in support of these claims . |
| 6 | Though her outstanding achievement is undoubtedly the composition of the first original poetry by a woman to be published in the seventeenth century , a volume of religious verse entitled Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum ( 1611 ) , she has become notorious as a result of attempts made to identify her as the ‘ dark lady ’ of Shakespeare 's Sonnets ( 1609 ) , on the conjectural grounds of her racial colouring , musical ability , and promiscuity . |
| 7 | This chapter is concerned with the ways in which the results of these techniques are reported and more particularly with the legal and professional attempts made to standardize them . |
| 8 | Nor were any attempts made to supplement the grammar or lexicon . |
| 9 | No attempts made to knuckle down and smarten up . |
| 10 | There was some attempt made to reach agreement at the continuous disarmament talks but the only real progress was a pledge not to test in the Antarctic , a gesture of more value to the species Penguin than the species Man . |
| 11 | Roland Barthes 's preface to this volume warns against the attempt made to ‘ naturalize ’ Robbe-Grillet 's fiction by adopting such a markedly humanist approach . |
| 12 | And if they have been on the market the terms have often been unreasonable , with little attempt made to advertise them . |
| 13 | Very little attempt is made to suggest alternatives in the syllabus plan or teachers ' books , very little attempt made to design or recommend more flexible materials such as reading or number cards , and this , despite enormous variations in ages , abilities and background of children . |
| 14 | The ‘ Pezzo informa di Sonatina ’ first movement turns out to be a fairly laid back affair , with every attempt made to lighten the load of Tchaikovsky 's passionately heavy scoring , even to the point of having multi-spread quadruple stopping reduced to simultaneously sounded double stops . |
| 15 | Yet the prospects for the people who live in blighted cities are bleak unless as a bare minimum there is a recognition across the political spectrum of the specificity and the extent of racial inequity in both the UK and the USA , a reconsideration of democratic involvement at both the local state and national state levels , and an attempt made to locate urban policy within local economic strategy ; urban policy needs to be conceptually disentangled from regional policy . |
| 16 | At first the flats had been let to carefully chosen tenants and an attempt made to preserve the modest amenities ; the square of lawn bordering the road , the two rose beds , the hanging windowboxes on each of the balconies . |
| 17 | The transfers are outstanding , with no attempt made to mask the flitter of his brilliance in the interests of silent surfaces or to remove other acoustical hiccups . |
| 18 | That some compositors , and not only on the committee , took a more sympathetic view of the problem is suggested by one writer to the STC , as far back as 1886 , whose attitude seems with hindsight to be the most constructive approach voiced by an Edinburgh man : that the women be treated seriously as colleagues and an attempt made to integrate them into the cultural world of the compositor from which they were decidedly excluded : A trade female society should be organised , having in connection a sick etc. fund ; a reading-room provided with illustrated and comic papers and magazines ; a library of high-class light literature chiefly and encyclopedias , dictionaries etc. : and an efficient committee to arrange for a grand picnic every summer and social gatherings in winter evenings . |
| 19 | Round him , she was talkative in order to provoke him into replying , and the attempt made her a habitual confessor , though she would have been amazed if she had been charged with talking about herself all the time . |
| 20 | We can compare this with a similar attempt made eight years later by Stubbs ( 1983 ) , who distinguishes four main areas of language which teachers should know about if they are to be able to make informed decisions about language problems at school : |
| 21 | Each wavering , each attempt made to complete |
| 22 | Was was any attempt made by the the experienced men the one who the ones who understood the rock and been in the presumably been in the industry |
| 23 | At Tewkesbury Abbey knights in armour appear as themselves — no attempt made to blend them with saints |
| 24 | It is a recognition that er the Republic of Cyprus is clearly one entity despite the attempt made by the Turkish Cypriot side to declare a separate state . |
| 25 | However , it was probably the most serious attempt made in colonial Africa to adapt the traditional bush/fallow system to changing economic circumstances and , if sustained , might have provided technical answers to problems which still prove elusive . |
| 26 | This should put a stop to the sort of attempt made by Hanson after it had successfully taken-over Imperial . |
| 27 | The Disarmers ' efforts were the only serious attempt made by ordinary citizens to influence policy on this matter of their own life and death . |
| 28 | LEGA emphasised the need for an objective appraisal of a prospective co-operative 's commercial prospects : and was critical of the attempt made on Mr Anthony Wedgwood Benn 's insistence when he was Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , to rescue the Scottish Daily News , Kirkby Manufacturing and Engineering Ltd ( KME ) , and Meriden ; and to make the co-operative form the instrument of rescue . |
| 29 | Er I remember too er there was some attempt made to stop a train , which er which was run er on what was then known as the Great Central Line , that runs through , that runs through Hucknall . |
| 30 | Neither the Minister nor the Leader of the House made any attempt , nor was an attempt made through the usual channels , to hold any serious discussions about the passage of the Bill . |