Example sentences of "attempt [was/were] made [prep] [art] " 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 . |
| 11 | Attempts were made during the war to bomb Saddam 's convoy , and the American attack on the Al-Amariyah shelter , which resulted the in the deaths if up to 300 women and children , seems to have been ordered because a high intensity of walkie-talkie traffic was detected at the shelter . |
| 12 | During the months that followed , as Mussolini bombed and gassed the Abyssinians into subjection , no serious attempts were made by the British Government to implement effective sanctions . |
| 13 | The writers report that several such attempts were made by the management of the oldest national book archive in Russia , the Academy of Sciences Library in St Petersburg . |
| 14 | The ship was laden with gold , silver and emeralds from Colombia and unsuccessful attempts were made by the Spanish government to salvage the ship immediately after it sank . |
| 15 | According to the French Minister of Health ( who stepped in when attempts were made by the anti-abortion lobby around the world to stop it being sold ) , this pill is the ‘ moral property of women ’ . |
| 16 | Several attempts were made within the ranks of the French right to establish a united movement which would appeal to the electorate . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Attempts were made in the Harmel Report to allay West German fears that flexible response would turn their territory into a battlefield . |
| 19 | 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 . |