Example sentences of "the first serious attempt " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was one of the first serious attempts to record the real lives of ordinary working people . |
| 2 | The first serious attempt at a mechanistic account of behaviour was concerned with animal orientation . |
| 3 | Metrolink is seen by transport planners and environmentalists as the first serious attempt to squeeze non-essential car users out of Manchester city centre . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Yet this is the first serious attempt to write about the revolution since the heyday of the early 1970s . |
| 6 | The first serious attempt to facilitate the electronic transfer of bill of lading rights took place in 1986 and lasted less than one year . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |