Example sentences of "attempt at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | No attempt at specific therapy was made in the remaining 12 patients . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | General Velasco dies and his unique attempt at left-wing military government is over . |
| 5 | Joni used much more solid underpainting on which the flesh tones would be laid — convincing proof of a recent attempt at fifteenth-century painting . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Parliamentarians scattered OECD statistics around like confetti , but carefully ducked any attempt at serious discussion of what the statistics really mean . |
| 10 | He belittled any attempt at serious conversation with phrases such as , ‘ Well , you 're quite a bluestocking , ’ or , ‘ Actually , I did n't come out to discuss politics . ’ |
| 11 | It completely disrupts any attempt at normal life . |
| 12 | The 1980s saw a pre-planned , sustained and ever-increasing harassment of the minorities in the valley — an attempt at ethnic cleansing by the fundamentalist muslims . |
| 13 | The Norfolk board meets today and Mr Eyles is confident it will reject what he terms , Mr Tyrie 's ‘ preposterous attempt at personal aggrandisement . ’ |
| 14 | The Fiction was his last attempt at personal writing in 1914 before he decided , by whatever hidden processes , that the best solution to his apparent obsession with introspection and self-analysis was to cross over into the world of poetry , with its quite different but equally stringent laws and regulations . |
| 15 | The scheme was a dismal attempt at wholesale social engineering , at wiping out the past and beginning all over again — although it has to be said that the new phonetic script itself , based on a design by someone called Kingsley Read , was rather attractive . |
| 16 | ‘ And some serious attempt at convincing performances with Aschmann . |
| 17 | Described by the Treasury and Civil Service Committee as ‘ the most ambitious attempt at Civil Service reform this century ’ ( 1990 , para 1 ) , it involves the creation of executive agencies to perform the administrative work of large parts of the civil service ( see Chapter 12 ) . |
| 18 | After the shattering defeat of Ocaña ( November 1809 — the Central Junta 's attempt at decisive defeat of Joseph 's armies ) the demand for a ‘ concentration of government ’ became irresistible . |
| 19 | Their attempt at automatic application of the ANLT parser to the noun phrases failed due to ‘ inadequacies of grammatical coverage and because of resource limitations with long and multiply-ambiguous NPs ’ which resulted in ‘ very high numbers of automatically generated parses ’ . |
| 20 | My observer bias forbids any attempt at interpreting Lees ' fig 1 . |
| 21 | In patients in whom endoprosthesis was inserted as a short term measure before surgery or a further attempt at endoscopic duct clearance the only complication observed with biliary colic in patients with gall bladders in situ ( four cases ) . |
| 22 | They looked , from a distance , as if they might well be the remains of her first attempt at Islamic dress . |
| 23 | One other factor converted this blurring of factional lines into a quite serious attempt at mutual reassessment of their relations by these groups ; a younger generation of reformers , particularly personified in the secretary of the BFASS from 1852 , L.A. Chamerovzow , and George Thompson 's son-in-law , the journalist Frederick Chesson , were willing to try to overcome the hostilities inherited from the previous generation . |
| 24 | Mr Lamont , who sees the Budget as his attempt at political rehabilitation , was boastful , saying he believed last year 's Budget had contributed to the Tory victory at the election and this one would also prove a winner in the next election in 1996 ‘ or whenever the election comes ’ . |
| 25 | This undermines any attempt at individualised quality care since the workforce can not assimilate the individual needs , likes and dislikes of a different group of patients each time they come on duty . |
| 26 | An attempt at geriatric screening in general practice in 1979 , for example , found 145 patients aged over 70 with 400 conditions between them . |
| 27 | The one major attempt at international cooperation has turned sour . |
| 28 | Underlying the enthusiasm that greeted this new attempt at international co-operation there remained an unknown factor : could the wartime co-operation of the Western Allies and the USSR be maintained now that their common enemy in Europe had been defeated ? |
| 29 | She surveyed his long-limbed body with an attempt at cool detachment , her gaze flickering over the dark denims that moulded his strong thighs , and the jade sweater that clung to his hard male chest . |
| 30 | The other major attempt at economic cooperation , albeit much less ambitious , took place in Northern Europe . |