Example sentences of "there [verb] been [det] 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 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 . |
| 6 | But there has been some attempt also to undercut the basic level of the defenders ' case . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There 've been several attempts to get E Ten right since nineteen eighty . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There have been many attempts to explain Baldwin 's 1929 election programme . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This is only a temporary solution and there have been many attempts to organise more humane working systems . |
| 15 | There have been many attempts to save the Humean account , or some development of it . |
| 16 | Faced with mutual incomprehension on one hand and linguistic imperialism on the other , there have been many attempts to introduce a standard world language . |
| 17 | There have been some attempts to do this . |
| 18 | There have been some attempts to do this . |
| 19 | There have been several attempts to explain the reasons for the strong seismic reflections from such zones . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | In recent year there have been several attempts to produce new kinds of keys . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Surprisingly , though , there have been few attempts to acknowledge the fluidity of Renaissance plays . |