Example sentences of "attempt [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One group dismissed the Prime Minister 's offer as an attempt to co-opt him into the ruling Chart Thai party and thus disarm his independent political ambitions . |
| 2 | Sinn Fein failed in an attempt to co-opt him on to the council on Wednesday night . |
| 3 | He smiled encouragingly , and Juliet was gratified by his attempt to include her in the conversation . |
| 4 | But because of its fierce realism and deep antipathy to authority ( whether it comes in the guise of nationalism or Catholicism , ) this culture is likely to resist any attempt to include it in the cosy consensus of Dublin as Europe 's cultural capital . |
| 5 | Some early designs incorporated fin offset in an attempt to combat it , with varying success . |
| 6 | With Dara once more clinging firmly and rather painfully to her arm she was walked back to the small , intimate table they had been sharing on the edge of the small dance-floor , but Ace was quickly on to his feet , side-stepping Dara 's attempt to greet him with a kiss . |
| 7 | Sheriff 's Deputy Mark Ray said Salata had been coming to the secure Polo Club development , where 23-year-old Steffi has a home , at least three times a day for three days in an attempt to see her . |
| 8 | But as the week wore on and Damian made no attempt to see her at night , spend time with her or try to kiss her , she realised he was seeing Domino in the dark , humid hours when Rachel sat alone at home , tortured by jealousy , consumed with it , imagining them together and burning with impotent rage . |
| 9 | A loose umbrella reform group , whose members in the early years included both regulationists and their opponents , it embraced an ameliorist approach to social problems , shying away from any attempt to see them as structurally related . |
| 10 | This chapter is an account of the process and is an attempt to see it from the family 's perspective . |
| 11 | After an attempt to silence him failed , John Buckingham , bishop of Lincoln [ q.v. under Bokyngham ] , in May 1382 ordered the investigation of sixteen articles brought by three friars ; in July Swinderby abjured six heresies and five errors . |
| 12 | Youths fired an arrow through the window of one house and set light to another in an attempt to silence them . |
| 13 | This dreadful invasion was one with which she was familiar : something between a hum and a buzz , and terrifying for being unresponsive to any attempt to silence it . |
| 14 | She had forgotten her brief attempt to enjoy it , and looked round at it with disgust . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Blanche understood at last why Marek , in his frenzy of desperation after the first attempt to kill him , had named Jozef Taczek as the killer of Mills . |
| 17 | Suppose the car crash was a botched attempt to kill them . |
| 18 | ISTANBUL — Turkey 's first , and most famous , transsexual has narrowly escaped the latest attempt to kill her , writes Tim Kelsey . |
| 19 | She told him what Maurin said about the reason for the attempt to kill her . |
| 20 | And now this crude attempt to kill us . |
| 21 | The nature of the two indecent assaults , coupled with the failure of the attempt to treat him , which had to be laid at his door , reinforced the concern . |
| 22 | Opening the conference Havel stressed that " in the extremely sensitive and risky stage of economic transformation of the post-communist countries , any attempt to treat them as a more or less institutionalized zone of semi-developed countries surrounding the prosperous countries of the European Communities [ EC ] and the European Free Trade Association [ EFTA ] would be an extremely dangerous step for all concerned " . |
| 23 | IBM is hoping that the popularity of workflow computing models will drive uptake , but it acknowledges that message queuing is not a new concept ; what is new it says , is the attempt to implement it across multiple manufacturer 's machines . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , the party made only a limited concession ; Home Rule 's suspension was real , and every attempt to implement it in wartime provoked sufficient Unionist outrage to stop it . |
| 25 | The tendency to render horrific incidents of this sort into funny tales or ‘ atrocity stories ’ ( Dingwall 1977 ) , told ritualistically within the occupational culture of the station , is a further attempt to strip them of their emotional hold . |
| 26 | She made a mild attempt to evade him but he cut across and landed in front of her , sitting , as she had first seen him , with the sheep and goats dithering and teetering before and around him . |
| 27 | Any attempt to evade it for the sake of the ‘ purity of the ‘ socialist ideal ’ ’ , 'he warned , would simply lead to a further expansion of the bureaucratic apparatus and to the dictatorship of the producer . |
| 28 | Sadly little attempt to discuss Eakins work in terms of nineteenth-century Realism or its American philosophical context — an attempt to compare him with Whitman is not fully argued — but the remarks on his Quaker background are telling . |
| 29 | But the attempt to assure us that directors are controlled by their shareholders must fail , for no matter how far the law goes in strengthening the powers conferred upon shareholders to monitor the managers of their company the reality is that where each shareholder only holds a tiny proportion of the share capital of the company none of the shareholders will avail themselves of the powers given to them to monitor the management . |
| 30 | His attempt to re-create it embraced both method and people . |