Example sentences of "the first [adj] attempt " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , it was the first successful attempt in this genre because it gave its performers an opportunity to reveal their talents as actor-dancers . |
| 2 | The 40th anniversary of the first successful attempt on Chomolungma — the Sherpa name for Everest — has seen a glut of books on the subject . |
| 3 | This adds greater pressure to the bilingual setting , but is the first real attempt to consider the implications of bilingualism for deaf children . |
| 4 | Last year was the first real attempt to recognise the new energy around in the visual arts . |
| 5 | The Large English Atlas ( serially produced with Bowen 1749–60 ) was the most important county atlas since Elizabethan times and the first real attempt to cover the whole country at large scale . |
| 6 | The first comprehensive attempt by the Pentagon to adapt US strategy to the changes resulting from the political reforms in Eastern Europe , and to accede to congressional pressure to reduce military expenditure , its relevance was immediately called into doubt as the USA mounted its large-scale military deployment in the Gulf crisis [ see pp. 37631-41 ] . |
| 7 | When W. S. Rockstro made the first thorough-going attempt at a life of Handel in 1883 , he had before him a list of no fewer than 53 likenesses made during the composer 's lifetime . |
| 8 | In the event , the two sides made heavy weather of them ; it was in Geneva that the first unsuccessful attempt was made , followed by another , no more fruitful , in New York , the two sides ' disagreement extending to their respective versions of what occurred during their talks . |
| 9 | This was one of the first serious attempts to record the real lives of ordinary working people . |
| 10 | The first serious attempt at a mechanistic account of behaviour was concerned with animal orientation . |
| 11 | Metrolink is seen by transport planners and environmentalists as the first serious attempt to squeeze non-essential car users out of Manchester city centre . |
| 12 | The first serious attempt was made as early as 1869 by a young Swiss doctor , Johannes Friedrich Miescher ( 1844–1894 ) , whose uncle was Wilhelm His ( 1831–1904 ) , a most unusual anatomist who maintained the forward-looking proposition ‘ La solution finale du problème du développement tissulaire se trouve dans la chimie ’ ( The final solution of the problem of development of organs is to be found in chemistry ) . |
| 13 | Yet this is the first serious attempt to write about the revolution since the heyday of the early 1970s . |
| 14 | The first serious attempt to facilitate the electronic transfer of bill of lading rights took place in 1986 and lasted less than one year . |
| 15 | To judge from Timothy Day 's useful Discography of Tudor church music ( London , 1989 ) , they mark the first serious attempt to capture on record a representative sample of Byrd 's music . |
| 16 | The Eighth National Conference of the Young Communist League , held at Bermondsey in February 1936 , marked the first serious attempt to broaden the appeal of the YCL . |
| 17 | It 's been toyed with a few times but as far I 'm aware , this is probably the first serious attempt — certainly at the sort of scale we 're talking of — to use a perched beach to provide coastal protection . |
| 18 | The SPAR system seems to represent the first explicit attempt to work out solutions to all four problems . |
| 19 | The first major attempt to use computer animation in a feature film was largely down to the novelty of the medium itself . |
| 20 | The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England ( Wilson 1976a ) was the first major attempt at synthesis since Leeds in 1913 , but its range was limited ignoring most of the early evidence , and there was very little discussion of method . |
| 21 | Univel , a joint venture of Novell and Unix System Labs , is the first major attempt to get Unix into volume distribution and will be piggybacking on Novell resellers . |
| 22 | A second hypothesis ( which corresponds closely to the timing of events ) is that the decision was taken in the wake of the first major attempt to restructure Cuban society : an Agrarian Reform Law , introduced on 17 May 1959 . |
| 23 | I I think erm a a as you 've kindly called me er I think I will try and make this debate a little more lively erm but I 'm not sure about being controversial er because here I was last week , I was making a speech about the significance of er the deregulation of contracting out bill and er I said then that the bill is so important because it is the first major attempt by government to slay the red tape dragon . |
| 24 | The " Anomalies Act " passed in July 1931 was the first major attempt to reduce such expenditure . |
| 25 | He continues : ‘ I started off putting all sorts of things into the first rough attempts , birds in one , Greek columns in another , Victorian oil lamps ; I even tried buildings and finally helicopters and an aeroplane , but gradually came to see that the designs were hopelessly confused . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It marks the first genuine attempt to bring alive the remarkable range of heritage and culture which has sustained the area for hundreds of years . ’ |
| 27 | The first full attempt at establishing a colony was Raleigh 's colony of Virginia , named for Elizabeth the virgin queen and located in what is now the Roanoke district of North Carolina . |
| 28 | The Celtic player Davie Hay and the late Hibernian full back Erich Schaedler made the first brave attempt , but they chose a defective boat and capsized almost immediately . |
| 29 | This is the ‘ truest cause ’ of Thuc. i.23 , a famous and deeply original statement which is the first conscious attempt to develop a theory of historical causation : ‘ The truest cause ’ , he says , ‘ was one not much admitted at the time : it was the growth of Athenian power , which frightened the Spartans and forced them to war . |
| 30 | At this point it is sufficient to state that the estimates are based on high quality data supplied by The Scotch Whisky Association 's nine largest companies and they provide the first published attempt to quantify the wider economic significance of this important industry . |