Example sentences of "attempt [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modifying Freud 's understanding of the human agent means first that he is trying to understand the attempt of human beings to place some order on to the natural and social world under conditions of ‘ time-space distantiation ’ . |
| 2 | Herein lay a grave source of weakness for the attempt of elected politicians to assert their right to take a greater share of power . |
| 3 | Outbreak of violence in Dushanbe — Alleged coup attempt against Tadjik government |
| 4 | The reconstruction of all the objects could not be completed ( this was later achieved by Bernard Rice and Ahmed Youssef Moustafa ) because of Stewart 's appointment as supervisor of technical education in Palestine in 1930 , but his name remains connected with the first attempt in Egyptian archaeology to restore objects which the loss of wood reduced to a mass of precious metal and faience components . |
| 5 | THE third serious attempt in recent years to have women admitted to full membership of Lancashire County Cricket Club was successful at the AGM on Saturday , with a 68 per cent vote in favour . |
| 6 | One well-known and well-publicised attempt in recent philosophy to address this problem in a " non-reductivist " spirit has gone under the name of Existentialism , and I shall now comment briefly on what I take to be the main features of the existentialist approach before outlining my own position . |
| 7 | The move followed an attempt in late 1990 by a group of " young democrats " in the DFLP executive committee to elect Rabbuh as secretary general in place of Nayef Hawatmeh . |
| 8 | The move followed unconfirmed reports of a coup attempt in late June by a brigade of the elite Republican Guards . |
| 9 | There is no attempt in strategic portfolio grids to measure covariances of returns between different SBUs . |
| 10 | Colleagues , do not let us shirk from our responsibilities to our fellow workers and this attempt to international solidarity . |
| 11 | There is no attempt to toilet-train children whatsoever and so consequently adults and children will by and large relieve themselves wherever and whenever they feel the need to do so . |
| 12 | In the British context of the 1980s the political project that has come to be identified as ‘ Thatcherism ’ has commonly been seen as an attempt to legitimate both the reintegration of a restructured British economy into the global economy and the revision of the relationship between the state and civil society that the preferred version of restructuring required . |
| 13 | THE LEGAL MODEL 'S ATTEMPT TO LEGITIMATE CORPORATE MANAGERIAL POWER THROUGH SUBJECTING IT TO CHECKS PREVENTING IT FROM BEING EXERCISED ARBITRARILY |
| 14 | Whereas in RX and Pilkingtons union resistance was either negligible or was transformed into active cooperation , at Ford the quality circles foundered on the unions ' dismissal of the initiative as a heavy-handed attempt to short-circuit existing bargaining procedures . |
| 15 | About ten years ago the agriculture ministry , which runs the agency , made a half-hearted attempt to staunch its losses . |
| 16 | Doubt and ambivalence are transmuted into clarity and certainty , and any attempt to reintroduce complexity into the debate is rejected as ‘ mere nitpicking ’ or ‘ a deliberate attempt to muddy the issue ’ . |
| 17 | This sounds like an attempt to second-guess market opinion , as impossible as the attempt to guess the outcome of a beauty contest . |
| 18 | Further factors in any attempt to second-guess the result are that last time round the UDF won this portfolio and that François Léotard , the incumbent at that time , is now aiming higher in ministerial rank . |
| 19 | I suspect this has been made up by the Friends of Ben Wyvis Society , who are making an attempt to liven up the image of one of the dullest Munros . |
| 20 | The one exception was her glasses , whose frames were a startling pink — perhaps an attempt to liven up her image ? |
| 21 | Moreover , the attempt to build-in behavioural response highlights the need for taking a more fully integrated view ; for instance , in the personal sector , saving , housing tenure , and labour supply decisions need to be considered in conjunction . |
| 22 | Brodkey 's relations with his adoptive mother Doris , a Jewish Clytemnestra to his haunted Orestes , involve a bizarre attempt at incestuous symbiosis ( 'The feeling of obliteration or castration or whatever it was was unsettling as hell' ) and a deathbed reconciliation with a nervous breakdown as a postlude . |
| 23 | No attempt at specific therapy was made in the remaining 12 patients . |
| 24 | And , checking back , the Sounds review of the time ( in which journalist Rab claims that he 's had a tape since November 1980 ) provided the release with a five star rating , while NME was mildly less enthusiastic , observing that ‘ it 's an odd LP , naturally flawed and imperfect and rather stilted in places but nonetheless a worthy attempt at indisciplinary entertainment . ’ |
| 25 | General Velasco dies and his unique attempt at left-wing military government is over . |
| 26 | Joni used much more solid underpainting on which the flesh tones would be laid — convincing proof of a recent attempt at fifteenth-century painting . |
| 27 | During the evaluation of the undergraduate course in information retrieval at Chalmers Library , a series of interviews were carried out with students participating in the course as part of an attempt at illuminative evaluation . |
| 28 | The last decades of the nineteenth and the first decade of the twentieth centuries saw a major attempt at moral restructuring which had its effects both in legislation and in the tone of public life . |
| 29 | But the collaboration was a predictable failure , and Coleridge , having written his own canto ‘ at full finger-speed ’ , found Wordsworth seated before a nearly blank sheet of paper with a look of ‘ humorous despondency ’ on his face.7sup5 ; A second attempt at joint composition followed almost at once , in the course of another tour , and although the two friends were no more successful than before at direct collaboration , a new and remarkable poem began to emerge none the less . |
| 30 | Parliamentarians scattered OECD statistics around like confetti , but carefully ducked any attempt at serious discussion of what the statistics really mean . |