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Example sentences for "attempt has been made"

  • An attempt has been made to relieve the gloom in the last clause of the chapter, v.

  • An attempt has been made to oblige those persons left in charge of houses occupied by foreigners here, to pay the tax upon absents.

  • A trench has been dug almost continuously from Drancy to Aubervilliers, and an attempt has been made to approach Le Bourget by flying sap.

  • An attempt has been made by the respectable portion of the community to establish a club at the Porte St. Martin Theatre, where speakers of real eminence nightly address audiences.

  • On quite another line, however, an attempt has been made to connect socialist tendencies with Darwinian principles.

  • No attempt has been made to display as a whole the vast contribution of Wallace; but certain of its features are incidentally revealed in passages quoted from Darwin's letters.

  • An attempt has been made to express in brief the main results of Darwin's work on the biology of flowers.

  • An attempt has been made to attribute them to Greene, on the ground that there are other folk-scenes in his works which display a similar strain of humour.

  • We have seen that an attempt has been made to trace to Bruno Hamlet's utterance as to the relativity of all concepts.

  • This was formerly done; but the Lords have long had a standing order forbidding such a practice, and no attempt has been made of late years to revive it.

  • In a few works such as Sighele's Psychologie des sectes and Michels' Political Parties an attempt has been made at objective description and analysis of the mechanisms of the behavior of the sect and of the party.

  • An attempt has been made to bring together literature that would exhibit the range, the divergence, the distinctive character of the writings and points of view upon a single topic.

  • Mass Movements In spite of the abundance of materials on the subject of mass movements no attempt has been made as yet to collect and classify them.

  • An attempt has been made here to give the name of every aero club that has been formed recently in the United States, or has been in existence for a long time.

  • In Part B an attempt has been made to collect illustrations of aeroplanes of the past which for one reason or another possess an historical interest.

  • In the following pages an attempt has been made to include photographs of all aeroplanes of the past six years, which, for one reason or another, "made history" in their own day.

  • An attempt has been made to transfer from the North to the South the honor of this exclusion of slavery from the Northwestern Territory.

  • An attempt has been made to impair his testimony, as to his being at the Half-way House on the night of the murder; you have seen with what success.

  • This testimony of Mr. Colman is represented as new matter, and therefore an attempt has been made to excite a prejudice against it.

  • An attempt has been made in this year to raise the standard of this department by appointing the Cambridge Preliminary Examination as the final examination of the College.

  • An attempt has been made to establish works in Russia, where the duty on steel pens is high, but after existing one or two years, the manufactory was burnt down, and no attempt has been made to re-build it.

  • No attempt has been made to give an exhaustive list of all the items coming within the classes eligible for entry.

  • An attempt has been made to arrange the material in such a way as to proceed from simpler chemical principles and substances to those of more complex structures.

  • In the English translation of this passage of Isocrates no attempt has been made to reproduce the effects to which Dionysius calls attention: to do so would involve sacrificing equivalence of meaning to equivalence of letter-combinations.

  • Here and elsewhere, no attempt has been made to secure metrical equivalence between the Greek original and the English version.

  • In the English translation of the passage that follows no attempt has been made to reproduce all the peculiarities of Hegesias’ style.

  • In the English translation no attempt has been made to reproduce the style of the original Greek.

  • In the following pages an attempt has been made--it is believed for the first time--to give an account of the cruise of a South Sea whaler from the seaman's standpoint.

  • In this volume an attempt has been made to give a concise, plain, and authentic narrative of the principal battles of the Revolution as witnessed by those who took part in them.

  • In this an attempt has been made to give a brief account of the acknowledged masterpieces in literature and in art, the latter term being understood to include architecture, sculpture, painting, and music.

  • No attempt has been made to illustrate the industrial and commercial development of England as a whole; but its more important aspects are indicated, and the machinery of administration outlined.

  • In this section an attempt has been made to illustrate the gradual expansion of the economic life of the town from the twelfth century onwards.

  • An attempt has been made to utilize the deposits, which are very extensive, but so far they have not been successful in producing a burning fluid that is either safe or agreeable.

  • No attempt has been made by the Government to attract immigrants until recently, for years ago the conservative element of the population were opposed to inviting strangers into their midst.

  • No attempt has been made to kill them for profit, but if some enterprising hunters should go to the Magdalena country and make a business of curing and shipping alligator hides, they would find it a profitable venture.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another story; attempt has been made; attempt made; attempt should; attempt was; attempts were; being ordered; bout what; finely situated; first appearance; free citizens; fresh supply; good servant; great fame; great sacrifice; half pound; heart beating; many knights; reckon thet; royal standard; scientific theory; unless perhaps; vast abundance; what makes; wounded spirit; written statement