Example sentences of "attempt [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an attempt to preserve her objectivity , but it could not suppress a rising panic . |
| 2 | By the time the studio came to make The Titfield Thunderbolt ( 1953 ) , about a village 's attempt to preserve their branch line against nasty entrepreneurs who have set up a bus service , gentle anarchy has given way to nostalgia for Olde England . |
| 3 | In an attempt to preserve their authority , the Chiefs amended the Constitution — which was already heavily biased in favour of the rural rather than the urban population — so that only five of the 37 Melanesian lower chamber seats were allocated to the urban areas , where approximately one-third of the Melanesian population lived . |
| 4 | Dorothy 's own attempt to preserve something from those final Somerset months produced a document more private , but hardly less remarkable . |
| 5 | For Mrs Whitehouse the case was but one step in the attempt to preserve our ‘ national morality ’ and our ‘ culture ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sinn Fein failed in an attempt to co-opt him on to the council on Wednesday night . |
| 8 | He insisted that experiment in painting is not trying to do what others have done but an attempt to paint what one sees . |
| 9 | He smiled encouragingly , and Juliet was gratified by his attempt to include her in the conversation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A LEADING government scientific research centre is selling its services to industry in an attempt to bolster its ailing finances . |
| 12 | Those who are climbing the career ladder fast may use alcohol as a booster to help them to achieve , and those who recognize that they have failed to reach the top may also turn to alcohol , in an attempt to bolster their failing self-image . |
| 13 | Some early designs incorporated fin offset in an attempt to combat it , with varying success . |
| 14 | The analysis of sampling behaviour by headquarters , however , was immediately resented by field staff as an attempt to monitor their performance . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This is not an attempt to deal with these ideals in a comprehensive way — no single empirical study could do that — but merely an attempt to see what bearing our factual findings may have upon moral views about the media . |
| 20 | Some studies have , therefore , been repeated some years later , in an attempt to see what changes have taken place . |
| 21 | This chapter is an account of the process and is an attempt to see it from the family 's perspective . |
| 22 | ‘ Of course he would have married her , he was very devoted , ’ Aunt Kit said , deceiving herself , I-think , since he made no attempt to see my mother after she had resigned from the college and come home to her sisters . |
| 23 | Daddy having recently popped it , my wife was comfortably off in her own right , and she did a deal by which , in exchange for her making no financial demands on me , I would make no attempt to see my daughters ever again : the corrupting influence was to be kept away . |
| 24 | When the clerk returned he saw the letter , glanced at the door , in an attempt to see who had left it , then slotted it neatly into one of the pigeon holes behind him . |
| 25 | The huge bulk of Kress appeared framed in the doorway peering through the gloom of the restaurant in an attempt to see who was calling . |
| 26 | Not only was ownership of the islands in itself unclear , but the dispute highlighted the disparities between Japan 's attempt to reorganize her administration and diplomacy along Western lines and China 's adherence to the traditional tributary relationship as a basis of international dealings . |
| 27 | His supporters hijacked an internal Soviet flight on Nov. 8 and forced it to fly to Ankara , in an attempt to publicize their cause . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Youths fired an arrow through the window of one house and set light to another in an attempt to silence them . |
| 30 | 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 . |