Example sentences of "[verb] a conscious effort [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donaldson side-stepped to avoid two solicitors in conversation , youngish men who seemed to have made a conscious effort to propel themselves into a facsimile of late middle-age . |
| 2 | It would be hypocritical to describe myself as this new creature as I did no make a conscious effort to share our son on a 50/50 basis . |
| 3 | Anger was getting close to being out of control , Briant suddenly realized , and he made a conscious effort to push it down . |
| 4 | Commentators noted that , throughout the negotiations , the USA made a conscious effort to distance itself from the proceedings . |
| 5 | Marie made a conscious effort to close her mouth , which she knew was hanging open . |
| 6 | The priest found his eyes drawn towards it and made a conscious effort to stop staring at it . |
| 7 | He started to protest , but then he seemed to remember his promise and made a conscious effort to stop himself . |
| 8 | Her body still clenched by the tension which had gripped her since the overwhelming surprise of Luke 's reference to Elise , Merrill made a conscious effort to loosen up . |
| 9 | From about the mid-1870s the YMCA made a conscious effort to recruit more adolescent and working-class members , and extended its interests to include additional recreational and sporting facilities . |
| 10 | It is n't until you make a conscious effort to listen , you realise how much noise you are subject to in this modern world , do you really , it 's true . |
| 11 | It is not that academic critics make a conscious effort to imitate their colleagues in the sciences , it is that they have come to adopt their concept of knowledge , and its professional servicing and supportive structures . |
| 12 | We either have them or we do not , although we can at times make a conscious effort to put certain feelings out of our minds . |
| 13 | Make a conscious effort to speed up activity in this way . |
| 14 | Make a conscious effort to drink less tea and coffee — about one or two cups per day . |
| 15 | Be aware of the category you fall into before you go for the interview and make a conscious effort to avoid the pitfalls . |
| 16 | It represented a conscious effort to offset colonial influences and to promote a national culture which would reflect the new nation . |
| 17 | It took a conscious effort to resist the urge to close my eyes , while I signalled to the traffic behind and made an emergency stop . |
| 18 | Where once you were making a conscious effort to cast long and accurately and were aware of the amount of punch you needed to put into the strike , you will find that with experience you begin to do these things quite naturally . |
| 19 | Many authorities were making a conscious effort to expand the social group from which their secondary pupils were drawn . |
| 20 | The general restrictions imposed by incontinence ( among all those incontinent at any time ) were drinking less when going out ( 35% , 146 ) , making a conscious effort to find out where public toilets are ( 33% , 141 ) , going out less ( 15% , 65 ) , and restricting activities such as lifting ( 10% , 43 ) . |
| 21 | We absorb ( i.e. learn ) a great deal of French vocabulary , grammar and syntax by listening to people speaking French without making a conscious effort to learn the language . |
| 22 | In an attempt to counter this , many North American teachers have begun making a conscious effort to help their young students ‘ develop ’ a child 's ‘ natural ’ curiosity about the world — not the TV world , but the actual world around them . |
| 23 | They will have to make a conscious effort to treat the assessment of need as a separate exercise from consideration of the service response . |
| 24 | they may not feel open to accepting that person into the family , very aware of having to make a conscious effort to put aside prejudices and stereotypes in order to get to know , like and accept him or her . |
| 25 | But the world was moving on , and national agendas were changing both in the United States and in Britain , a fact soon to be underlined by a British prime minister who was to make a conscious effort to grade Western Europe above the United States in Britain 's list of national priorities . |
| 26 | Sinking back into his chair , McGuigan makes a conscious effort to suppress his emotions . |