Example sentences of "attempt [be] made [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attempts are made to improve existing courses , either as a result of personal observations , or from discussions with participating students . |
| 2 | The court will usually impose a requirement that appropriate attempts are made to trace lost shareholders at reasonable intervals , often by advertisements . |
| 3 | Unless some attempt is made to address such problems it is unreasonable to suppose that such findings have any privileged status over any other kinds of assertion . |
| 4 | Unlike Water Newton , no attempt was made to link these streets and lanes along the inner edge of the defences . |
| 5 | There were very few Black or gay workers involved in it , and no attempt was made to recruit new members . |
| 6 | Curriculum development programmes of some magnitude got going before ever attempts were made to chart national goals or directions for educational advance . |
| 7 | It is likely that attempts were made to create similar kingdoms on the western frontier along the Severn Valley , but these were frustrated by Caratacus , who had established himself as the head of the anti-Roman forces in the region now known as Wales . |
| 8 | From the seventeenth century onwards , attempts were made to create artificial pools with trapping systems , but it was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that ideas became at all sophisticated . |
| 9 | However , valiant attempts were made to conduct massive trials in which as much information as possible could be included . |
| 10 | Indeed between 1512 and 1519 some attempts were made to sink new mines , presumably to meet demand , but this expansion was followed by contraction during the general European crisis of 1521–26 . |
| 11 | A number of attempts were made to introduce such courses in the next few years , but as experiments in applied anthropology they were all failures . |