Sentence examples for had been attempts from inspiring English sources
There had been attempts to correct this, and the country had a record in Central American adventures.
There had been attempts to model the pirouette but the designers said it was too complicated to replicate.
He said he had told the committees in closed-door testimony last Thursday evening that there had been attempts to influence him, apparently with financial inducements.
Costello's earlier songs, by his own reckoning, had been attempts at imitation of American songwriters like Hoagy Carmichael, Randy Newman, John Prine, and Lowell George.
But after 1994, after the Saudis froze his assets and revoked his passport, and there had been attempts on his life, he became more paranoid and decided that the whole family had to survive with nothing.
James W. Mercer, a lawyer representing Orange County, said there had been attempts by many of the defendants to jointly negotiate a global settlement but that such efforts have apparently fallen apart for now.
