Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] effort [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had always been pleased when she had called on him in London but made little effort to visit her in Carshalton . |
| 2 | But he made little effort to develop this outside his own definitions of the genealogical method , while his shift into the problematics of power seemed to lead him into a labyrinth from which it was virtually impossible to extract himself . |
| 3 | The lad who led her in , the irate punter who looked up at her with contempt and muttered , ‘ You 're useless ’ , Bill , who made little effort to conceal his anger as she unsaddled Boardwalk . |
| 4 | The government made little effort to conceal a belief that the rural sector had to pay for the development of the urban/industrial one . |
| 5 | They have been left behind by the economic restructuring of the 1980s , shunted off on a branch line of history and left back in the twilight of the 1970s along with flares and skinheads , a time when demagogues made last-ditch efforts to salvage working-class pride and channel it in a fascist direction . |
| 6 | For much of the eighty-year period which separated the Elizabethan church settlement from the civil war , the leaders of the English church made strenuous efforts to accommodate these two very different religious outlooks within its deliberately broad boundaries . |
| 7 | She made strenuous efforts to tame her behaviour when she was indoors , never rattling her earrings during Mass , nor racing along the stone corridors as if they were open fields . |
| 8 | By the War Powers Act , the Hughes — Ryan Act , the Case Act and a number of other bills in the 1970s , Congress made strenuous efforts to reclaim ground lost to the president in the realm of foreign policy . |
| 9 | The government made strenuous efforts to upgrade the quality of the teaching profession . |
| 10 | Mary Leapor , however , would have studied under a man named Richard Cooper who made strenuous efforts to improve the school during the middle years of the century [ Clarke ] . |
| 11 | Unaware that the papacy had lost much of its earlier counter-Reformation vigour and that relations between Rome and Paris were far from harmonious , many English Protestants remained convinced that their church was increasingly at risk from the growing ambition of Louis XIV , and made strenuous efforts to divert Charles and James from their pro-Catholic paths . |
| 12 | Common lawyers detested the right of benefit of clergy , and made strenuous efforts to legislate against the practice in the parliaments of 1512 and 1515 . |
| 13 | Although the Oregon Health Commission made strenuous efforts to involve the public , two-thirds of those attending the meetings were graduate educated professionals , and 60 per cent of those were health care workers . |
| 14 | Throughout most of her reign , and particularly in its early years , she made strenuous efforts to show herself an adherent of advanced theories of government and of the ideas of the French Enlightenment in general . |
| 15 | Astronomers made strenuous efforts to observe Vulcan , generally attributing their lack of success to the fact that a small body so close to the Sun would be incredibly difficult to detect . |
| 16 | There were those men who made strained efforts to submerge their mistrust , dislike and fear of us . |
| 17 | MOVES were made by the Bank of England yesterday to head off any problems in financial markets caused by Friday 's bomb attack as leaders of key institutions made extensive efforts to ensure it is ‘ business as usual ’ in the City today . |
| 18 | The worker should make strenuous efforts to help parents exercise their rights fully , for example by helping them obtain legal advice , and only after these steps have been taken , should a final agreement be signed . |
| 19 | A salad of chicory tossed in a roquefort sauce made herculean efforts to revive our jaded appetites and who could resist turbotine ( baby turbot ) grilled on the bone and served whole with pommes alumettes — chips to you mate ! |
| 20 | Nevertheless , the USA did make some efforts to modify the brutal conduct of the Iraqi armed forces during their campaign against the rebels . |
| 21 | Trent held him under the cold water , hoping he would make some effort to support himself . |
| 22 | The court decided that victims of art thefts should be protected against the usual requirement in civil cases that the owner must make some effort to recover stolen goods within three years ; it ruled that the clock does not start ticking for the statute of limitations until the victim locates the stolen artworks and asks for their return . |
| 23 | It should make some effort to understand . |
| 24 | ‘ I do wish you 'd make some effort to grow up , ’ said my mother before she could stop herself , for she did n't want her future son-in-law to know how much I could irritate her . |
| 25 | Coventry-born Painter , 21 , sensed trouble soon after the start and made repeated efforts to keep the headgear in place . |
| 26 | He readily granted licences for enfeoffment to uses , and although Chancery officials made some effort to track down unlicensed or fraudulent uses , such cases ‘ form a very small minority of all those tenants in chief who had conveyed land to uses ’ . |
| 27 | Wilson nodded and dried her tears yet again and made some effort to smile . |
| 28 | The officer in charge of the Masai Extra-Territorial District , as the reserve was now called , recommended further efforts to abolish the manyatta system , whose demise had been frequently , but prematurely , announced since 1922 . |
| 29 | Should I make fresh efforts to get him back ? |
| 30 | To locals who criticise this effort to attract low-paid jobs , Dulce Maria Sauri , the state governor , says : ‘ I 'd like a car plant , that 's the dream of every governor , but it takes time . |