Example sentences of "there [verb] been [det] attempts " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 've been several attempts to get E Ten right since nineteen eighty . |
| 2 | There have been many attempts to explain Baldwin 's 1929 election programme . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This is only a temporary solution and there have been many attempts to organise more humane working systems . |
| 6 | There have been many attempts to save the Humean account , or some development of it . |
| 7 | Faced with mutual incomprehension on one hand and linguistic imperialism on the other , there have been many attempts to introduce a standard world language . |
| 8 | There have been some attempts to do this . |
| 9 | There have been some attempts to do this . |
| 10 | There have been several attempts to explain the reasons for the strong seismic reflections from such zones . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | In recent year there have been several attempts to produce new kinds of keys . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Surprisingly , though , there have been few attempts to acknowledge the fluidity of Renaissance plays . |