Example sentences of "have be an attempt " in BNC.
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| 1 | This article has been an attempt to use Hahnemann 's writings to understand the dynamics of potency and , in particular , the LM potencies . |
| 2 | In Nigeria there has been an attempt to integrate Music , Dance , Drama and Fine Art under Cultural and Creative Art . |
| 3 | Bill Clinton , writhing amid the dilemma that most of his election campaign has been an attempt to persuade the white middle class that he does most emphatically not speak for the poor or the coloured , announced , after much shilly-shallying , that ‘ We have refused to confront our differences … and for this neglect , we have all paid . ’ |
| 4 | Instead , it has been an attempt to marry a value-laden choice of issue with objective methods of data collection . ’ |
| 5 | In sharp contrast there has been an attempt to argue that Britain 's adherence to the sterling area was not determined by an anachronistic desire to play a world role , combined with a suspicious prejudice against integration with Europe , but was the result of a careful balancing of post-war economic needs [ Newton , 1984 ] . |
| 6 | Running alongside this financial support has been an attempt to promote industrial cooperatives where small firms would share distribution facilities or share the production of one brand name . |
| 7 | An exciting development in the women 's movement over the last few years has been an attempt by feminists to organise together around housing issues and to develop a feminist analysis of how the organisation of housing in Britain specifically affects women . |
| 8 | In his work as in the present study , there has been an attempt to mediate between the physical world of practices as a determinant material structure and constructivist analysis of the material world as inseparable from the cognitive means of its appropriation . |
| 9 | In addition to the activities of members on the floor of the House or in the parties , there has been an attempt to restore or increase the influence of the Commons by adopting new procedures , most of which involve the development of a new committee system . |
| 10 | Since the mid-1970s there has been an attempt to fuse the voluntaristic , militaristic , flamboyant aspects of Guevarism and Castroism with the tactical positions of more orthodox thought . |
| 11 | There has been an attempt to find a consensus . |
| 12 | That is not to say that there has been universal agreement , but there has been an attempt to discover what is best for the consumer . |
| 13 | It may have been an attempt to clear the wood of all the trees , but before this was achieved the attempt was abandoned . |
| 14 | The motive for Nepomuk 's canonisation appears to have been an attempt by the Jesuits to set up an alternative national hero to the heretical Hus . |
| 15 | The laboratory 's opinion , though , is that the incident was more likely to have been an attempt to make the researchers there look a bit silly . |
| 16 | There had been an attempt , through Acts of Parliament , to revive the election of local Forest officers and the holding of local Forest courts in some forests ; these measures were intended to preserve the forest woods and to increase timber production by enclosure of the forest wastes . |
| 17 | There had been an attempt at a revolution in Russia , but then nobody concerned themselves much with the eccentricities of the world south of Cathcart or east of Camlachie , unless it might touch on trade . |
| 18 | It would , again , have been the ideal weapon if the shooting had been an attempt to make trouble between hawks and doves within the Provisionals . |
| 19 | ‘ When we arrived at the house it appeared there had been an attempt to destroy literature by burning it . |
| 20 | But this had been an attempt to land on the Spanish Main , and the Spanish felt much less concerned about the long string of small islands in the Lesser Antilles at the eastern end of the Caribbean . |
| 21 | The excavator noted that domestic rubbish had been tipped inside the precinct because , either it had become a convenient dumping ground , or there had been an attempt at deliberate desecration , as happened at a later date in the orchestra of the Verulamium temple theatre . |
| 22 | The Crusades , in one view , had been an attempt to restore Christ 's inheritance ( into which he had entered in triumph ) both to him and to his heirs , the Christian community . |
| 23 | It had been an attempt to force him to withdraw . |
| 24 | It had been an attempt to let in a bit of fresh air on the subject . |
| 25 | Troon , who had first presented the government with the findings of his investigation in September 1990 , also stated that he believed that there had been an attempt by Biwott and top-level security officials to hamper his investigations . |
| 26 | Le Monde , citing agency reports , said that Biya 's speech had been an attempt to appease the opposition , which continued to allege massive electoral fraud and to claim that the Social Democratic Front ( SDF ) leader , John Fru Ndi , was the real winner . |
| 27 | In Sheffield there had been an attempt to rank grammar schools , and W. P. Alexander , the education officer , had argued then , and after 1945 as secretary of the AEC , for selection of 5% at the top , not 20%. 83 In practice , local authorities were constrained in the crucial years 1944–50 by existing buildings , shortage of funds for new ones and by existing teaching staff from making substantial innovations in their arrangements at all . |