Example sentences of "attempt at [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parliamentarians scattered OECD statistics around like confetti , but carefully ducked any attempt at serious discussion of what the statistics really mean . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Its principles were praised by reforming monarchs such as Frederick II of Prussia , Maria Theresa of Austria and Catherine the Great of Russia ; the French Code introduced by the revolutionary regime in 1791 was an attempt at direct implementation of his plan for a rigid tariff of punishments ; Beccaria also greatly influenced such English jurists as Romilly and Blackstone . |