Example sentences of "[ex0] have be attempts [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have been attempts at explanation . |
| 2 | In the case of titles , of course ( that is , markers like Miss and Mrs ) there have been attempts at reform , and in some countries — though not in Britain — they have been very successful . |
| 3 | There have been attempts since the 1970s to limit the money which US parties spend campaigning , to outlaw very large donations , and to top up money raised from small contributors with state funding . |
| 4 | As a consequence it would appear that ‘ strikes are often the most practical means of renouncing an agreement ’ ( Sellier , 1978 , p. 222 ) , although recently there have been attempts in France to institute more regularised collective relationships . |
| 5 | Even in the ‘ feminine ’ arts , however , women have been subject to more subtle pressures : arts , it is believed , are the domain of ‘ feminine ’ men , not women , and there have been attempts in recent years to render the arts more ‘ masculine ’ . |
| 6 | Fortunately , over the past few years there have been attempts by social services and local authorities to review the value of care for young people . |
| 7 | First , there have been attempts by social scientists to communicate with biologists . |
| 8 | As guardians of its wildlife , Hong Kong 's British tenants can not be said to have done very well , though in the last ten years there have been attempts by Hong Kong conservationists to save what is left . |
| 9 | We have seen that since the Second World War , there have been attempts by structuralists and Marxists to make English more ‘ objective ’ : attempts which , I would suggest , have not been particularly successful in penetrating the teaching of English in higher education . |