Example sentences of "attempt at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially it was planned to have two mid-mounted eight-cylinder 1,000 hp automobile engines driving two scimitar-shaped multi-bladed pusher propellers located aft of the tailplanes , but this arrangement has been dropped in favour of mounting the propellers on pylons above the wing trailing-edges apparently to enable the racer to be float-equipped for an attempt at the six-decades-old world airspeed record for seaplanes . |
| 2 | ‘ Utterly vain is , alas ! this attempt at the Absolute , — wholly ! ’ |
| 3 | But his watch did n't make any attempt at the right label . |
| 4 | The three crews , all named after former Grand National winners , made their first attempt at the unsocial hour of eight in the morning . |
| 5 | But agile he is n't ; witness this rather half-hearted attempt at the long jump . |
| 6 | Cast your mind back to Day 1 and your first attempt at the elementary exercises I asked you to perform . |
| 7 | He moved to Australia to box professionally , and fought there successfully for ten years until his attempt at the Australian middleweight title in 1890 , when he was defeated by Jim Hall . |
| 8 | A NORTH Belfast student has come home from her first attempt at the British Long Distance Swimming Championships with a medal . |