Example sentences of "been [det] attempts " in BNC.

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1 His name has been moderately conjured with by British academics , but there have been few attempts to systematize his work for the classroom , as has happened in the United States .
2 There have been few attempts to portray mental handicap in the theatre , and despite its progressive nature , the theatre has been slow to respond to the challenge on offer .
3 The overall conclusion is that while there is no shortage of regular comment and coverage of mental handicap in the mass media , there have been few attempts over recent years to explore the subject in any depth , and those that have , have focussed on the sensational and the controversial .
4 There have been few attempts to show this , but Barry Cunliffe 's diagram of Chalton settlements and the series of changes shown for Bullock Down in Sussex are interesting analyses which deserve to be emulated .
5 Surprisingly , though , there have been few attempts to acknowledge the fluidity of Renaissance plays .
6 There have been some attempts to do this .
7 There have been some attempts to do this .
8 There have , however , been some attempts to go beyond this and to develop conceptions of TNCs not as representatives of the power of the state , as tends to happen within state-centrist analyses , but as independent of and even , on occasion , opponents of the state .
9 There have been many attempts to explain Baldwin 's 1929 election programme .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 This is only a temporary solution and there have been many attempts to organise more humane working systems .
13 There have been many attempts to save the Humean account , or some development of it .
14 Faced with mutual incomprehension on one hand and linguistic imperialism on the other , there have been many attempts to introduce a standard world language .
15 Erm well why would you er get engaged in a , a contest erm with er the three warring factions , because you certainly would n't be able to con confine yourself to one , and since there 's no national interest as such , I know there have been many attempts to link er Bosnia with er peace in the world generally or with world order , in fact there is no threat er this is a civil war , strictly speaking , and th there 's no evidence that it would er sp spill over into a major war unless it was made a major war er by those er with the er forces that exist .
16 There have been several attempts to explain the reasons for the strong seismic reflections from such zones .
17 Such models are necessary for the realisation of Wilson 's claim , and there have been several attempts at preliminary formulations by social scientists , archaeologists , population geneticists and from Wilson himself .
18 Since then , there have been several attempts to persuade Government to relax the statutory requirements but these have failed , largely because of opposition from the Inland Revenue and the Treasury .
19 How much of these the foundation will manage to recover is an open question , but at least the collection is now safe ( there have been several attempts in the past to remove its best paintings to other museums ) .
20 There 've been several attempts to get E Ten right since nineteen eighty .
21 In recent year there have been several attempts to produce new kinds of keys .
22 There have been several attempts to build predictive models which describe the relationship between share prices and accounting variables , prominent among which has been the price — earnings ratio .
23 Sinn Fein councillor Vincent Kelly claimed there have been several attempts to pressurise Mr Fox into working for British Intelligence .
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