Example sentences of "attempts have [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier attempts had been made to bridge St George 's Channel but had failed , largely because of the treacherous currents and deeper water . |
| 2 | When Peru was actively whaling in the 1970s and early 1980s , catching Bryde 's whales mainly for the Japanese market , unsuccessful attempts had been made to introduce whale meat to the Peruvian population . |
| 3 | He recognized that some attempts had been made to cultivate the seeds of Natural Reason into something worthwhile . |
| 4 | During the first years of the Federal Republic , from 1949 to 1953 , when the Right was staging something of a recovery , attempts had been made to distinguish between ‘ insane Hitlerism ’ and the positive aspects of National Socialism . |
| 5 | Before Haussmann attempts had been made by various small companies to provide street lighting by gas , but once again it required the drive and determination of the new regime to bring all these together and to create one large company charged with the responsibility of lighting the whole of the city . |
| 6 | Attempts had been made to find alternative uses , but it was evident that nothing suitable was forthcoming . |
| 7 | For about twenty-five years or more prior to the Poor Law Commission designating ‘ boy labour ’ a social problem , several attempts had been made to deal with the youth question by enrolling older children and young adolescents in a socially conservative youth movement , whose main features were discipline , religion , and organized leisure . |
| 8 | But in April 1980 the lengthy trial proceedings ground to a halt because of allegations that attempts had been made to bribe the jury . |
| 9 | All previous invasion attempts had been betrayed by the massive concentration of troops and ships begun long in advance . |
| 10 | It was a very sound brick structure and had been built about 1868 but it had the notorious reputation of being called ‘ Lover 's Leap ’ , no doubt due to the fact that several suicide attempts had been made from its high parapet , most of them fatal . |
| 11 | Other attempts had been no more successful in the interim . |
| 12 | Daiwa suspected that something was amiss only at the beginning of this year , when it uncovered evidence that attempts had been made to forge security depositary receipts . |
| 13 | The reason is that after the first attempts had been made , some types , such as C , D and E , were found to be unnecessary . |
| 14 | In one Southwark neighbourhood attempts had been made to prevent children from using the drying area on the roof of a block of model dwellings as a playground . |
| 15 | For some years attempts had been made to prohibit the sale of firearms and a Pistols Bill had been presented to Parliament in 1893 . |
| 16 | But in February 1681 many witnesses began to see more advantage in making themselves acceptable to the government than to the Whigs , and in stating that attempts had been made to suborn them to give evidence . |
| 17 | Climatology is probably the most data-rich branch , in which maps showing mean values of climatic elements such as precipitation or temperature had been long-established and numerous attempts had been made to classify climates upon a world basis . |
| 18 | Conversely , instances of anti-abortion legislation which went far beyond the Pennsylvania statute — particularly in Louisiana , Utah and Guam , where attempts had been made to outlaw almost all abortions — appeared doomed to failure . |
| 19 | " I am the sentry who is never relieved " , he said at the opening of new rooms at the Military Museum in Madrid on 7 March 1946 , conveniently overlooking the fact that several unavailing attempts had been made to relieve him since 1939 . |
| 20 | Apart from this type of building , attempts had been made in many countries to provide an adequate base for the circular section of the dome so that it could be set upon a square section building . |
| 21 | The reaction to the discovery , that it would mean that there would be no need of the Icelandic fishing grounds in future , makes it fairly certain that even if there had been accidental sightings of the New World before that date , no systematic attempts had been made to explore it further nor to exploit the resources of the Newfoundland Banks ( 45 , pp.214–16 ) . |
| 22 | No one had put them together , and several attempts had been made to seperate them . |
| 23 | There were fingermarks on her neck and attempts had been made to strangle her . |
| 24 | Mr Anderton said he was disappointed that he could not afford to keep Vaila , adding that various attempts had been made to interest public and environmental agencies to buy it for the enjoyment of the public . |
| 25 | When the first attempts had been made to adapt the Wright Brothers ' invention as a lethal instrument , pilots went aloft with steel darts and took pot shots at one another with service revolvers . |
| 26 | Equally it is to be welcomed that two major attempts have been made to address the general nature of Conservative ideology . |
| 27 | Straw : Some is already converted as farmyard manure ; and attempts have been made to break it down in other ways to make a compost base . |
| 28 | Many attempts have been made to compile a genealogical tree showing the relationships of these animals to one another and to man . |
| 29 | Many attempts have been made simply to control the starfish . |
| 30 | Many attempts have been made to classify British cattle breeds on the basis of ancestry and these categories are often based on obvious physical characteristics such as horns and coat colour . |