Example sentences of "[verb] been several attempts [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 've been several attempts to get E Ten right since nineteen eighty . |
| 2 | Since then , there have been several attempts to persuade Government to relax the statutory requirements but these have failed , largely because of opposition from the Inland Revenue and the Treasury . |
| 3 | Sinn Fein councillor Vincent Kelly claimed there have been several attempts to pressurise Mr Fox into working for British Intelligence . |
| 4 | There have been several attempts to explain the reasons for the strong seismic reflections from such zones . |
| 5 | There have been several attempts to build predictive models which describe the relationship between share prices and accounting variables , prominent among which has been the price — earnings ratio . |
| 6 | In recent year there have been several attempts to produce new kinds of keys . |