The phrase "attempts only to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the limited scope or purpose of an action or effort.
Example: "The study attempts only to highlight the key findings without delving into the underlying causes."
Alternatives: "seeks merely to" or "strives only to".
It is assumed that this is because PCA attempts only to describe the variance of the data without class information, and it may be distracted by the amount of noise present in the data.
The simple classifier presented here attempts only to demonstrate that the belief network method can be useful and that the data used for its construction is sufficiently accurate.
This step attempts only to reproduce the results of Sorlie and colleagues [ 2], so we expect to find their five subtypes (basal-like, ERBB2, luminal A, luminal B and normal-like).
In the third section, the narrator is an old man who has survived a suicide attempt only to discover that he is suffering from Parkinson's disease.
The two teams went try for try from the moment Titans fullback William Zillman attempted to save a Peter Wallace 40-20 attempt only to flick the ball straight to Panthers winger Dallin Watene-Zelezniak who scored in the eighth minute.
Morecambe went out all guns blazing by their own standards in midweek, bidding for their first ever league win over local rivals Accrington Stanley at the 11th attempt, only to be thwarted by some brilliant goalkeeping by Ian Dunbavin.
In this study, we attempt only to re-master the old music sources.
Faced with a fourth match point on his own serve, Berdych faltered with his first attempt only to fire down his biggest second serve of the tournament, leaving Nadal helpless.
It did so, he says, by considering dams as part of the natural environment and by attempting only to prevent the near-term extinction of endangered fish rather than recovering the species.
The other option is a class-action lawsuit, which, again, Kline attempted, only to fall short.
During the early phases, British and Malaysian troops had attempted only to control the border, and to protect population centres.
