Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] attempt " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a host of community-related rural organisations in Scotland , many of which are purely social , or purely functional , some of which have broad ( non-party ) political aims , ( very few it seems make any attempt at all to combine social and political aspects even in a semi-structured way ) , but there has been little attempt to make learning connections between the assortment of community groups . |
| 2 | There has been little attempt to review previous research with a view to formulating and testing specific hypotheses … frequently studies seem to start and finish with relatively untested common sense assumptions . |
| 3 | There has been little attempt to create projects to promote women 's development and even less understanding of the issues involved . |
| 4 | Note that bass notes are mostly dissonant with the melody , and that there has been little attempt to remove note-relationships which conventionally would be regarded as crude and unmusical . |
| 5 | In yet other cases there has been little attempt to intervene . |
| 6 | In the UK , different local authorities have developed a range of renewal policies but there has been little attempt to evaluate their effect in the wider urban context . |
| 7 | But there has been some attempt also to undercut the basic level of the defenders ' case . |
| 8 | One suspects that somewhere along the line of the story 's forming there has been some attempt to draw a veil over the proceedings , and to protect the reputation particularly of the great Moses . |
| 9 | Although many elements of that model still exist today , there is also quite widespread dissatisfaction with it , and there has been some attempt to find out why , and to modify these elements . |
| 10 | In the West Midlands there has been some attempt to classify the type of assistance given to each client into advice or support where support means that some action was taken by the advice worker . |
| 11 | There has been some attempt to assess children 's preferences in terms of subject-matter , illustration style , reproduction processes , use of colour , and so on . |
| 12 | Military police have foiled what 's believed to have been another attempt to attack and mutilate horses . |
| 13 | There had been occasional attempts to re-use the Fell types but this was frustrated by their condition . |
| 14 | There had been unsuccessful attempts even further south ; the unfortunate Raleigh got himself out of the Tower by promising to find James 1 a supply of gold in Guiana , but he found no gold and he irritated the Spanish so much that they pushed James into having him executed in 1618 on the 1604 charge of treason . |
| 15 | The magistrate , Mr S.K. Upadhyaya , resplendent among the dusty villagers in a navy blazer and a silver-tipped walking stick , denied that there had been any attempt to intimidate voters . |
| 16 | There 've been several attempts to get E Ten right since nineteen eighty . |
| 17 | There have been various attempts to broaden the sixth-form curriculum , none of which has been successful . |
| 18 | There have been various attempts to classify different corporate cultures and to look at the consequences of those types for the use of power ( see Deal and Kennedy ; Handy ) . |
| 19 | As a result , any attempt to explicate the theme of the sequence is bound to run into peculiar difficulties , although there have been various attempts to interpret it in Christian , symbolist or political terms . |
| 20 | The very idea of the ‘ comprador bourgeoisie , ’ central to the dependency approach , appears to have fallen into disuse in recent years and there have been various attempts to reconceptualize what it refers to . |
| 21 | There have been recent attempts to obtain planning permission for the mill 's conversion into a dwelling and this may be its best chance of survival . |
| 22 | Pollution largely ended the shellfish industry although there have been recent attempts to revive it . |
| 23 | In opposition to nationalism , however , there have been renewed attempts since 1945 to create supranational organizations , not only on a world scale through the establishment of the United Nations and its various agencies , but also on a regional basis . |
| 24 | There have been four attempts to grapple with these tensions through restructuring or internal reorganisation . |
| 25 | There have been limited attempts to address the problem of third parties , for example by the International Law Commission and the International Court of Justice . |
| 26 | ‘ I seem to remember there have been two attempts , one at John F. Kennedy , the other at Heathrow to smuggle bombs aboard planes . |
| 27 | There have been two attempts to reduce human resources to this form of measurement ( Giles and Robinson , 1972 ) . |
| 28 | There have been many attempts to explain Baldwin 's 1929 election programme . |
| 29 | There have been many attempts to understand why certain materials cause blood coagulation and many suggestions have been made as to how to overcome the problem . |
| 30 | There have been many attempts to produce haemocompatible materials and some researchers have suggested that the key to producing such materials is to have a negatively charged surface . |