The phrase "a bid to extract" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an attempt or effort to obtain something, often in a formal or business context.
Example: "The company made a bid to extract valuable resources from the newly discovered site."
Alternatives: "an attempt to obtain" or "an effort to retrieve".
In filings with the California Energy Commission, Ausra has accused the union group of abusing environmental laws in a bid to extract a labor agreement.
Many are converting their premises into "lap dancing venues" in a bid to extract more money from punters and performers alike.
Britain's richest man is planning a giant new opencast mine 300 miles inside the Arctic Circle in a bid to extract a potential $23bn£14bnbn) worth of iron ore.
On Monday, dozens of people staged an impromptu sit-in on an upscale residential street in Beijing after their building's management building cut water and power in a bid to extract more money from the tenants.
Life changed for Abu Rami in January, however, when his older brother, in a bid to extract him from the shabiha, took him to a workshop organized by an opposition group that promotes dialogue over violence.
The result might well be to tip the country back into war.In a bid to extract concessions from UNITA, and to divert the government from military thoughts, Angola's three international mediators from America, Russia and Portugal have been holding talks with both Mr Savimbi and Mr dos Santos.
If there is to be a big push for freer trade, including a successful bid to extract fast-track authority from a recalcitrant Congress, it will have to wait until 2001.
Oil companies are scrambling to invest in oil that's harder and more expensive – and therefore less profitable – to extract in a bid to keep up production.
The aim of the study is to evaluate the antioxidant, gastric cytoprotective prostaglandins, secretory phospholipase A2, phytochemical and acute toxicity properties of Cassia sieberiana roots bark extract in a bid to justify its phytotherapeutic applications in gastric ulcer.
The Machiavellians amongst us may be entertaining the possibility that this bizarre fit of pique is designed to extract maximum concessions from the EU and other world influencers in a bid to bolster his position.
This paper reports an evaluation of the in vivo anti-oxidant properties of an aqueous root bark extract of C. sieberiana in experimental gastric ulcer rats in a bid to elucidate its mechanism of action.
