Example sentences of "attempt [was/were] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But with this , as with council-house building , no real attempt was made to turn back the clock on processes that were ultimately totally to transform the character of Britain 's housing market . |
| 2 | An attempt was made to blow up a police chief . |
| 3 | After which an attempt was made to set out the most elementary logical conditions that must be satisfied before anything can qualify as a potential existent . |
| 4 | In addition to the methods mentioned above , which were used specifically to evaluate the undergraduate information retrieval course , an attempt was made to carry out a long-term study on the use of the library with regard to reasons for use , materials used , success in carrying out literature searches etc . |
| 5 | In February 1952 an attempt was made to burn down an Evangelical church in Seville , and Cardinal Segura published a virulently anti-Protestant pastoral letter , in which he effectively accused Franco of betraying the sacred identity of Spain as a Catholic nation . |
| 6 | Serious attempts were made to level up the resources for secondary modem schools , in order to make them comparable with grammar schools , and so achieve that parity to which Ellen Wilkinson was openly committed . |
| 7 | Attempts were made to push out the burning fuel with scaffolding poles . |
| 8 | Attempts were made to put out the fire . |
| 9 | In the late 1930s Japanese became the official language and attempts were made to wipe out the indigenous Korean culture . |