Example sentences of "attempt the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 on disability issues and they have n't been able to find anybody else , but what they 've said , despite extensive attempts the convention has not been able to obtain a replacement for this one , due to and buys us time .
2 A man left paralysed from the waist down after a parachuting acce accident two years ago , attempts the World 's first solo paraplegic sky dive .
3 Prime Minister Guy Razanamasy on July 30 said that he had been made aware of the imminent attempt the day before it took place and that a " foreign power " was responsible .
4 Prior to the coup attempt the applications approved by the Philippine Board of Investments for 1989 had increased by 128 per cent to be worth a total of $781,600,000 .
5 Through this attempt the Restoration lent itself to a repetition of the earlier struggle between King and Commons .
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