Example sentences of "attempt by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further interesting example is the initial failure of an attempt by a US manufacturer of dishwashers to sell its product in Switzerland , promoting the dishwasher ( without prior research ) as a household convenience . |
| 2 | So after an unsuccessful attempt by a right wing government to have the Opera buried ; a series of firings and resignations — Barenboim , Boulez and a rupture with Nureyev — the Bastille is preparing to open . |
| 3 | ‘ Metaphysics ’ has been defined as the attempt by a blind man in a dark room to find a black hat which is n't there . |
| 4 | Another attempt by a Gehlen agent called Christopher Komarek to lay a similar cable across the Jungfern Lake also ended in failure . |
| 5 | One interpretation of mental breakdown is that it is an attempt by a disturbed mind to create a breathing space for reassessment and balance ; for conflicts which have been suppressed to emerge and be dealt with . |
| 6 | Louis also gave valuable financial assistance to Charles during the Exclusion crisis which erupted in 1679 , assisting the English king to prevent an attempt by a powerful group of Protestant MPs to bar his Catholic brother James , Duke of York , from the succession . |
| 7 | One interpretation of the intermittent energy which Joseph Sturge put into the free produce movement in the 1840s is that it constituted an attempt by a Friend who had launched out into public and even political life to maintain links with more traditionally quietist brethren who none the less looked for greater perfection in the world . |
| 8 | This last piece of evidence was regarded by Sir Ian Richmond as a necessary attempt by a Christian owner to counteract any remaining pagan influence . |
| 9 | In the province of Santa Barbara , in 1887 , as we learn in Odtaa ( chronologically the first book , though written and published second ) a mad dictator , Don Lopez , withstands a determined but seemingly hopeless attempt by a heroic friend of the people , Don Manuel , to overthrow his tyranny . |
| 10 | Assistant mechanic Jonas found a chip pan on fire in the galley and put it out — this could have caused serious problems for the salvage attempt by a tug on the way from Lowestoft . |
| 11 | We shall consider words , phrases and sentences which appear in the textual record of a discourse to be evidence of an attempt by a producer ( speaker / writer ) to communicate his message to a recipient ( hearer / reader ) . |
| 12 | It is also worth noting that they were concerned with an attempt by a defendant in proceedings brought in the county court by a local authority to challenge the relevant decision of that authority . |
| 13 | Article 86 of EC Law is prima facie only concerned with the abuse of a monopoly position , though the Continental Can judgment implied that an attempt by a firm , which was already dominant , to increase its dominance ( e.g. by merger ) could be interpreted as an abuse . |
| 14 | This was an attempt by a local authority to object to the level of grant it was deemed to be entitled to from the central government . |
| 15 | The incident on the Bridge might have been a clumsy attempt by a third party to bump off the middle man . ’ |
| 16 | An attempt by a Danish shipping company to export a 430-tonne consignment of Italian and Belgian zinc oxide industrial waste to the Brazilian port of Santos in July 1989 failed when the cargo ship containing the waste was refused permission to dock . |
| 17 | Collins , 60 , dismissed the charges as " nothing more than a blatant attempt by a twice-convicted dope dealer , aided and abetted by government agents , to set up a black judge " . |
| 18 | Motoshima had become a symbol of the right of free expression after he survived an assassination attempt by a right-wing nationalist in January 1990 . |
| 19 | INFORMATION required on a rescue attempt by a Walrus which went to the aid of B-17 2102610 Boomerang on Saturday December 30 , 1944 , after it had crashed into the sea approximately 16 miles off Beachy Head . |
| 20 | It was designed as a desperate attempt by a desperate Government to dig itself out of a mess of its own making . |
| 21 | A Home Office enquiry is underway tonight into an escape attempt by a prisoner who was being moved between jails . |
| 22 | The Methodist Church in Ireland was in session during an unsuccessful attempt by the government to quash the running of the referendum . |
| 23 | After the breakdown last week of an attempt by the Industrial Relations Commission to settle the dispute by arbitration , Mr Hawke 's government has begun its controversial plan to compensate the three main domestic airlines — Ansett , jointly owned by the TNT transport empire and Rupert Murdoch 's News Corporation , East-West , an Ansett subsidiary , and the government-owned Australian Airlines . |
| 24 | LESBIAN and gay delegates yesterday vented their anger at an attempt by the Labour leadership to abandon past conference calls to reduce the age of consent for homosexual acts from 21 to 16 . |
| 25 | When the authorities learned of the attempt by the IRA to free key men from east Tyrone and south Derry last Saturday , all 570 inmates of the jail were ordered to remove their socks and shoes . |
| 26 | This style also reflects the attempt by the political élite in Moscow to hand down to the provinces general directives which were as sophisticated as possible and based on Marxist tenets in so far as they could be understood at lower levels . |
| 27 | Only the United States had no state airline , and believed that airways should be open to free market capitalism : ‘ In general , the Chicago conference can be described … as an attempt by the United States to capitalise on its overwhelmingly strong bargaining position in international aviation by securing for itself a near monopoly of long-haul air transport . ' |
| 28 | TROOPS will be used to provide emergency ambulance cover in London from this afternoon in what the unions yesterday described as a political attempt by the Government to escalate the dispute . |
| 29 | A last minute attempt by the London employers to open talks this morning was turned down by union leaders . |
| 30 | TROOPS will be used to provide emergency ambulance cover in London from this afternoon in what the unions yesterday described as a political attempt by the Government to escalate the dispute . |