The phrase "attempts to observe" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing efforts made to notice, perceive, or study something.
Example: "The scientist makes several attempts to observe the behavior of the rare species in its natural habitat."
Alternatives: "tries to notice" or "seeks to perceive".
Attempts to observe Madonna were countered by Ms. Spiegel, who blocked our view with her own body.
The constraint that only colourless objects can appear in nature seems to limit attempts to observe single quarks and free gluons.
The published studies examined the impact of different noise filtration strategies on the functional connectivity analyses, but there were no attempts to observe the influence of the noise filtration on PPIs.
The union, among other allegations, charged in a 21-page letter to the New York regional office of the National Labor Relations Board that the commissioner's office has interfered with the union's accessibility to the umpires' places of work and its attempts to observe the QuesTec Umpire Information System in operation.
These calculations along with related recent findings have made it possible to analyze the results of many other sensitizer-wire experiments that in turn point to new directions in our attempts to observe reactive intermediates in the catalytic cycles of P450 and other heme enzymes.
Sampling issues notoriously frustrate attempts to observe convergence.
At that point it may be brighter, perhaps much brighter, than Venus, though to attempt to observe it without stringent precautions would be foolish.
Instead, astronomers concentrated on attempting to observe them indirectly through the gravitational effects they exert on their parent stars.
For years Albert Hazen Wright and Anna Allen Wright traveled extensively, attempting to observe every species of snake in North America in its natural surroundings and collecting data and live specimens.
He said that on Sundays he and Rand often visited different churches in an attempt "to observe how people practice their spirituality," and frequently debated "individuals who very literally interpret the Bible, who question many scientific theories".
The third prolonged test was in attempt to observe optimal removal rates as cited in some of the previous similar work done in other countries, where optimal removal was reported at approximately 21 days.
