Example sentences of "[is] the first [adj] attempt " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Yet this is the first serious attempt to write about the revolution since the heyday of the early 1970s . |
| 4 | This adds greater pressure to the bilingual setting , but is the first real attempt to consider the implications of bilingualism for deaf children . |
| 5 | A spokesman for the Sri Lankan government in London told Action that this is the first known attempt anywhere in the world to translate the values of the New World Information and Communication Order into a legal form on a national scale . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This is the first reported attempt to evaluate the mucosal availability of 5-ASA after different oral preparations . |
| 8 | As far as we know , this is the first detailed attempt to estimate the proportion of congenital abnormalities that are preventable . |