Example sentences of "attempt was made [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two book shops and a newspaper office have been firebombed , possibly because of Mr Salman Rushdie 's novel ’ The Satanic Verses ’ , and an attempt was made on the life of the wife of the captain of the uss Vincennes , the ship that shot down an Iranian airbus . |
| 2 | As it was certain that the aircraft could go faster an attempt was made on the world speed record . |
| 3 | Another attempt was made in the following year between July 13 and 27 and was completely successful . |
| 4 | The first attempt was made in the autumn of 1947 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | An attempt was made in the 1920s and 1930s to pursue Japanese aims more skilfully and to enlist the cooperation of the Korean people . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In these , however , no special attempt was made by the interviewers to evoke memories of grandparents or other old people . |
| 9 | However , in the 1890s an attempt was made by the trade to introduce arterial embalming as practised in the United States , the leading campaigners for this being the funeral furnishing firm of Dottridge Brothers . |
| 10 | The most recent attempt was made by the Labour government in the late Sixties . |