21.   The effort fell short of the necessary two-thirds vote, and another attempt is in the offing for next year.

22.   There had been no attempts on the jewels, which remained unmolested in their wooden chest.

23.   There has been no attempt to arrange the books according to subject matter.

24.   There have been attempts to depict this extraordinary achievement as a form of musical consumerism.

25.   There have been various attempts to broaden the sixth-form curriculum, none of which has been successful.

26.   There is no attempt to understand or explain the phenomenon in terms of wider social forces.

27.   There was an attempt to exterminate ethnic groups in the north of the country.

28.   There was no attempt to liken any Conservative minister, or downtrodden Chancellor, to Baldrick or anyone else.

29.   There was no attempt to persuade and the result was that I blew up.

30.   There was no attempt to persuade him to reconsider.