Example sentences of "been attempts " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have even been attempts to stage biographies , one of the first being Loring 's Billy the Kid ( see page 30 ) . |
| 2 | Several times in the past , there have been attempts to murder her . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There have been attempts to depict this extraordinary achievement as a form of musical consumerism . |
| 5 | There have been attempts to protect the graveyards from the ignorant and the malicious . |
| 6 | There have even been attempts to pressurise Desmond Haynes , the island 's sole representative , into joining the boycott . |
| 7 | Although there have been attempts to separate these in the public mind , they are inseparable . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The nose had been smashed , the throat was terribly bruised , and there had been attempts to both burn and boil the remains . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There have been attempts at explanation . |
| 12 | First , there have been attempts by social scientists to communicate with biologists . |
| 13 | Subsequently , there have been attempts to bring together man in relation to his work . |
| 14 | Joan Waters , too , was left in peace apart from the following two minor incidents which may have been attempts to impress upon her that she had not moved beyond the reach of the long arm of the undercover services . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There have been attempts to explore similarities in terms of historical links . |
| 22 | More recently there have been attempts to fit a transformational grammar framework to the written production of deaf children ( Ivimey , 1976 ) . |
| 23 | There have also been attempts to promote more humane-looking alternatives such as restitution and reconciliation ( for example , Wright , 1982 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In ethics , there have been attempts to incorporate or develop a women 's point of view , perceived as missing from mainstream theory . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | 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 . |