Example sentences of "be an attempt " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of these mechanisms — the inflammatory process , the process of tissue repair , the process of immunity and the phenomenon of shock — are anatomical and physiological body defence mechanisms against injury and disease which are protective , and are an attempt to prevent further damage . |
| 2 | The jobs are an attempt to inject ‘ new blood ’ into university departments where the turnover of staff has fallen to a trickle and to give new emphasis to information technology . |
| 3 | In my opinion , these charges are an attempt to retaliate for Mr Macchio having filed his own action to terminate their professional relationship . ’ |
| 4 | Developmental norms are an attempt to provide an indication of the ages at which one might expect ordinary children to show evidence of certain skills or abilities . |
| 5 | Developmental charts and checklists are an attempt to provide a simple , non-technical procedure for gathering information about a child 's language . |
| 6 | Here the changes are an attempt to get clean possession . |
| 7 | These planning assumptions , therefore , are an attempt to predict future business conditions and the sales volumes that might be obtained from them . |
| 8 | Together these two essays are an attempt to construct the theoretical basis for an alternative to positivistic scholarships , an alternative that will deal with the specifically literary properties of texts , and deal with them with the same degree of objectivity and rigour as scholarship has traditionally claimed . |
| 9 | The above arrangements are an attempt to relieve some of the congestion on the roads at peak commuting times . |
| 10 | ‘ Although these claims are true , they are rather misleading and are an attempt to generate fees by the businesses concerned , ’ says tax specialist Peter Howarth . |
| 11 | Theories of normative income redistribution set a desirable standard or target , whereas the more positive theories are an attempt to predict something about the nature of redistribution in the empirical world which may or may not be consistent with one or more or any of the views of desirability . |
| 12 | The land availability studies are an attempt to do precisely this . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's money that has gone missing and the High Court proceedings are an attempt to recover it . |
| 14 | By the end of 1926 , the General Council was advancing the argument , with some justification , that the General Strike had only been an attempt to warn employers that the problems of industry could not constantly be tackled at the expense of the standard of living of the workers . |
| 15 | The motive for Nepomuk 's canonisation appears to have been an attempt by the Jesuits to set up an alternative national hero to the heretical Hus . |
| 16 | There had been an attempt , through Acts of Parliament , to revive the election of local Forest officers and the holding of local Forest courts in some forests ; these measures were intended to preserve the forest woods and to increase timber production by enclosure of the forest wastes . |
| 17 | There had been an attempt at a revolution in Russia , but then nobody concerned themselves much with the eccentricities of the world south of Cathcart or east of Camlachie , unless it might touch on trade . |
| 18 | This article has been an attempt to use Hahnemann 's writings to understand the dynamics of potency and , in particular , the LM potencies . |
| 19 | The laboratory 's opinion , though , is that the incident was more likely to have been an attempt to make the researchers there look a bit silly . |
| 20 | In Nigeria there has been an attempt to integrate Music , Dance , Drama and Fine Art under Cultural and Creative Art . |
| 21 | Bill Clinton , writhing amid the dilemma that most of his election campaign has been an attempt to persuade the white middle class that he does most emphatically not speak for the poor or the coloured , announced , after much shilly-shallying , that ‘ We have refused to confront our differences … and for this neglect , we have all paid . ’ |
| 22 | It would , again , have been the ideal weapon if the shooting had been an attempt to make trouble between hawks and doves within the Provisionals . |
| 23 | ‘ When we arrived at the house it appeared there had been an attempt to destroy literature by burning it . |
| 24 | Instead , it has been an attempt to marry a value-laden choice of issue with objective methods of data collection . ’ |
| 25 | In sharp contrast there has been an attempt to argue that Britain 's adherence to the sterling area was not determined by an anachronistic desire to play a world role , combined with a suspicious prejudice against integration with Europe , but was the result of a careful balancing of post-war economic needs [ Newton , 1984 ] . |
| 26 | But this had been an attempt to land on the Spanish Main , and the Spanish felt much less concerned about the long string of small islands in the Lesser Antilles at the eastern end of the Caribbean . |
| 27 | Running alongside this financial support has been an attempt to promote industrial cooperatives where small firms would share distribution facilities or share the production of one brand name . |
| 28 | The excavator noted that domestic rubbish had been tipped inside the precinct because , either it had become a convenient dumping ground , or there had been an attempt at deliberate desecration , as happened at a later date in the orchestra of the Verulamium temple theatre . |
| 29 | An exciting development in the women 's movement over the last few years has been an attempt by feminists to organise together around housing issues and to develop a feminist analysis of how the organisation of housing in Britain specifically affects women . |
| 30 | The Crusades , in one view , had been an attempt to restore Christ 's inheritance ( into which he had entered in triumph ) both to him and to his heirs , the Christian community . |