Example sentences of "[verb] the first [adj] attempt " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The SPAR system seems to represent the first explicit attempt to work out solutions to all four problems . |
| 7 | Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act 1934 represented the first legislative attempt in the US to curb some of the dangers associated with insider trading . |
| 8 | Prior further claims that union support for such an industrial policy was a central plank of the social contract , which therefore ‘ represented the first British attempt within a framework of parliamentary democracy to build in a process of extra-parliamentary mobilisation around the policies of a Labour government ’ ( ibid. , p. 4 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Britain 's position was further weakened early in 1963 , when the French president , de Gaulle , vetoed the first British attempt to join the EEC , though George Ball later concluded that the veto would have been delivered sooner or later with or without Nassau . |