Example sentences of "an effort [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the shared snaking keyboards , in Tom Hingley , the Inspiral Carpets have a frontman who , like Hugh Cornwell , actually makes an effort to sing in the old-fashioned sense . |
| 2 | In an effort to deal with the growing problem of industrial pollution , the Hong Kong government has started to collect chemical waste and dispose of it free of charge . |
| 3 | In 1776 twelve schools of this kind were set up in the French provinces , largely in an effort to cope with the military pretensions of the poorer nobility . |
| 4 | In a sense , it is precisely the vain attempts to interpret existence as a " property " and the difficulties created by such interpretations that have inspired the various reductivist moves in an effort to dispose of the whole problem , by showing that existential propositions are in principle " eliminable " , and hence that there are no " irreducibly " existential facts . |
| 5 | She seemed to be making an effort to speak in a dispassionate practical tone . |