Example sentences of "[ex0] [vb base] been attempts " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several times in the past , there have been attempts to murder her . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There have been attempts to depict this extraordinary achievement as a form of musical consumerism . |
| 4 | There have been attempts to protect the graveyards from the ignorant and the malicious . |
| 5 | Although there have been attempts to separate these in the public mind , they are inseparable . |
| 6 | As a possible agent of change , the bourgeoisie was discarded by dependency theorists , but in the wave of post-dependency criticism , there have been attempts to resuscitate this role for them . |
| 7 | While the efficient exploitation of Malaysia 's forests is beset by problems similar to those discussed above for Nigeria , there have been attempts to implement governmental control . |
| 8 | There have been attempts at explanation . |
| 9 | First , there have been attempts by social scientists to communicate with biologists . |
| 10 | Subsequently , there have been attempts to bring together man in relation to his work . |
| 11 | State newspapers are therefore funded out of public money , and there have been attempts to follow the example of the Daily Times , funded from the profits made out of various commercial activities . |
| 12 | There have been attempts to attach the origin to certain famous men called Runcie — not least of all the grandfather of the former Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There have been attempts to estimate the economic cost of corporate crimes and render these in a meaningful fashion ( Bequai 1978 : 1 ; Clinard 1978 : 83–102 ; Conklin 1977 : 2–8 ; Geis 1975 : 95–7 ; Hills 1971 : 167–68 ; McCaghy 1976 : 205 ; President 's Task Force Report 1967 : 47–51 ; Stotland 1977:180–82 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There have been attempts to explore similarities in terms of historical links . |
| 18 | More recently there have been attempts to fit a transformational grammar framework to the written production of deaf children ( Ivimey , 1976 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In ethics , there have been attempts to incorporate or develop a women 's point of view , perceived as missing from mainstream theory . |
| 21 | In the use of the theories to analyse developments within the UK , however , there have been attempts to link long waves to the changing nature and pattern of uneven development . |
| 22 | There have been attempts to classify broad ‘ occupational training families ’ , and an emphasis on ‘ multi-skilling ’ , particularly for those who work in the service sector . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | In addition , there have been attempts to increase the influence of the House in a manner which escapes party divisions , particularly by the creation of more select or ‘ specialist ’ committees . |
| 26 | Since the end of the Cold War , there have been attempts to reassess the concept of national security , for example by Barry Buzan , whose analysis addresses the contradictions frequently existing between state security and the security of individuals and groups within the state . |
| 27 | From the beginning , however , these difficulties have been recognized and although there have been attempts to overcome them — attempts which will no doubt continue — there had to be a way of progressing while these studies were being undertaken . |
| 28 | Erm there have been attempts to brighten them up at various times . |
| 29 | In the 1980s there have been attempts to develop random sampling procedures as quick and as cheap as quotas . |
| 30 | Although there have been attempts to assess penetrance in the two phenotypes of Gardner and simple polyposis that have shown low penetrance , these have relied on the expression of cancer or the extraintestinal features . |