Example sentences of "[num ord] attempt [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the collaboration was a predictable failure , and Coleridge , having written his own canto ‘ at full finger-speed ’ , found Wordsworth seated before a nearly blank sheet of paper with a look of ‘ humorous despondency ’ on his face.7sup5 ; A second attempt at joint composition followed almost at once , in the course of another tour , and although the two friends were no more successful than before at direct collaboration , a new and remarkable poem began to emerge none the less . |
| 2 | They looked , from a distance , as if they might well be the remains of her first attempt at Islamic dress . |
| 3 | Bill is about to make his first attempt at growing vegetables , and he 's keen to have lettuce and young onions next May . |
| 4 | The reconstruction of all the objects could not be completed ( this was later achieved by Bernard Rice and Ahmed Youssef Moustafa ) because of Stewart 's appointment as supervisor of technical education in Palestine in 1930 , but his name remains connected with the first attempt in Egyptian archaeology to restore objects which the loss of wood reduced to a mass of precious metal and faience components . |
| 5 | The Fiction was his last attempt at personal writing in 1914 before he decided , by whatever hidden processes , that the best solution to his apparent obsession with introspection and self-analysis was to cross over into the world of poetry , with its quite different but equally stringent laws and regulations . |