Example sentences of "have been no attempt " in BNC.

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1 Partly because these changes have been seen as shifts in design philosophy to be applied incrementally to new housing areas or to rehabilitated inner city districts , there has been no attempt to apply them to established residential areas .
2 The terms ‘ learning ’ , ‘ acquisition ’ and ‘ development ’ are often used interchangeably and , so far in this book , there has been no attempt to define distinctive meanings .
3 I must make it plain that there has been no attempt to question the general supremacy of Parliament .
4 Unlike the position in England , there has been no attempt to develop Elderly Mentally Infirm ( EMI ) Homes , though the concept was included in the Miller report ( SHHD , 1970 ) .
5 Additions are therefore difficult to manage , and there has been no attempt to keep the collection up-to-date .
6 Additions are therefore difficult to manage , and there has been no attempt to keep the collection up-to-date .
7 would suggest that the only reason for this application is one of profit , there has been no attempt to recognize or implement the views of the village in terms of the type of accommodation which is required , I would suspect that it 's Grant Development 's intention to develop this site and then walk away , and leave the villagers to suffer the consequences .
8 There had been no attempt to make these signatures credible ; the words ‘ for my Dear and especial Boy , with affectionate regards from Mr Arthur Bloxam ’ appeared across a faded nineteenth-century portrait ; but they also appeared scrawled lavishly across a portrait of an eighteen-year-old boxer torn from the sports pages of a recent newspaper .
9 This pay policy , for which there had been no attempt to establish wide political support , bore particularly hard on certain groups of relatively weakly organised workers such as nurses , teachers and hospital workers whose case commanded considerable public sympathy , and when the deflationary measures had checked the run on the pound trade union antagonism to the government remained .
10 there had been no attempt by the appellant to show that any part of the deceased 's income & 6 ] consisted of a return on assets as opposed to remuneration for labour and work on the farm .
11 There 's been no attempt to create the game-show 's quiz element , no digitised piccie of Jim Bowen ( hurrah ! ) , and no Bully 's prize board ( out of the black and into the red , etc ) .
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