Example sentences of "has make [art] [adj] effort [verb] " in BNC.

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1 During the last five months he has made a strenuous effort to get to know the area and the residents of this constituency of contrasts .
2 Japanese industry has made a real effort to reduce energy use and particularly to cut oil consumption .
3 It is always so annoying when one has made a particular effort to check a point and something still goes wrong .
4 Mr Major has made a special effort to patch up relations with Germany .
5 An occasional treat or privilege for a child who has made a big effort to master a new skill or managed to give up a bad habit hardly comes into that category .
6 Each age and each individual has to make the imaginative effort to appropriate the religious tradition and make it their own , as Julian did .
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