Example sentences of "there [verb] been several attempts " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 've been several attempts to get E Ten right since nineteen eighty . |
| 2 | There have been several attempts to explain the reasons for the strong seismic reflections from such zones . |
| 3 | Such models are necessary for the realisation of Wilson 's claim , and there have been several attempts at preliminary formulations by social scientists , archaeologists , population geneticists and from Wilson himself . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | How much of these the foundation will manage to recover is an open question , but at least the collection is now safe ( there have been several attempts in the past to remove its best paintings to other museums ) . |
| 6 | In recent year there have been several attempts to produce new kinds of keys . |
| 7 | 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 . |