Example sentences of "attempt be made in " in BNC.

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1 Because of this , attempts are made in many areas to examine land destined for construction work or mineral extraction before the work starts and , if possible , to record and even excavate sites threatened with destruction .
2 If an honest attempt is made in one 's own little world to make this strive a living force without being crushed under foot by one 's contemporaries , then one may consider oneself and the community to which one belongs lucky .
3 No attempt is made in this book to give a comprehensive listing of important bibliographies .
4 No attempt is made in any of the books I looked at to integrate girls into the world of engineering or technology .
5 No attempt is made in the Convention to prescribe details of procedure for the payment or reimbursement of costs .
6 No attempt is made in ICL ( or any other company I know of ) to archive product documentation once a product is no longer supported .
7 Another attempt was made in the following year between July 13 and 27 and was completely successful .
8 The first attempt was made in the autumn of 1947 .
9 Here a determined attempt was made in the last decades of the fourth century to uphold the ancient Roman religion along with the classical culture with which it was associated .
10 An attempt was made in Parliament to restrict the power to intercept for security reasons to cases where this was necessary for the defence of the realm or to prevent subversion , terrorism , or espionage — still wider than the guidelines but much closer to their spirit than the statute .
11 An attempt was made in SPAR to reflect these factors by temporarily , during the application of the focusing rules to each anaphor , augmenting the existing focus registers with intrasentential candidates , ordered according to Hobbs ' algorithm .
12 In England , an attempt was made in 1316 to cut down the amount of luxurious food which the nobility might consume .
13 An attempt was made in the 1920s and 1930s to pursue Japanese aims more skilfully and to enlist the cooperation of the Korean people .
14 President Carter displayed considerable restraint in the crisis until an attempt was made in April 1980 to rescue the hostages by force .
15 An interesting attempt was made in 1966 by Michael Zander , acting as solicitor for the appellant , to introduce a written brief into the Court of Appeal .
16 An attempt was made in the Legal Advice and Assistance Act 1972 ( now consolidated in the Legal Aid Act 1988 ) to extend the scope of legal aid beyond the confines of civil and criminal litigation .
17 Taking that principle as a starting point , an attempt was made in Belfast to assign to the fieldworker a clear social identity which allowed him or her to claim a role in the community .
18 A deliberate attempt was made in 1966 to make assistance known and acceptable , when it became known as supplementary benefits .
19 Friend the Member for Aberdeen , North said that when an attempt was made in Committee to create a consumer body with a wider remit , the Chairman ruled it out of order on the ground that it went beyond the scope of the Bill .
20 An attempt was made in Lobb ( Alec ) ( Garages ) Ltd v Total Oil ( Great Britain ) Ltd [ 1985 ] 1 All ER 303 , to take advantage of this view .
21 In later years , for example , attempts were made in 1930 , 1932 , 1936 , 1938 , 1944 , 1948 , 1952 , 1962 and since then , to establish it but the frequency with which resolutions were passed on the subject reveals the intractable nature of the problem . )
22 Since a faithful classification of land cover is an essential component in the proposed scheme , several attempts were made in an effort to obtain a consistent and suitably detailed product .
23 After 1914 no further large-scale attempts were made in Kenya to take land away from the Masai , and their administrators settled down relatively undisturbed to pursue the arts of government .
24 The earliest attempts were made in Canada around the turn of the century , using locally caught mink to get the breeding colony started .
25 Attempts were made in 1972 , and again in 1974 , to rear dog- whelks in aquaria at Nettlecombe Court , under cover but in an un-heated room .
26 Attempts were made in 1988 to resolve this disincentive effect .
27 Unsuccessful attempts were made in April to broaden Poland 's governing coalition , and to give it a stronger majority in parliament which would enable it to push through its budget proposals and economic reforms .
28 Attempts were made in the Harmel Report to allay West German fears that flexible response would turn their territory into a battlefield .
29 Various attempts were made in the 1974-1979 Parliament to introduce PR throughout the United Kingdom for elections to the European Parliament and for elections to the proposed assemblies in Scotland and Wales .
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