Example sentences of "make the [adj] effort " in BNC.
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| 1 | More significantly , the Government yesterday made the biggest effort yet to defuse the row by saying the two Central Office officials ' visit had been cleared by the Tory chairman , Sir Norman Fowler , but Major himself had known nothing about it . |
| 2 | They reason that they might as well make the same effort journeying to meet the other people in person . |
| 3 | Jimbo himself had made the one effort that only a patient can make . |
| 4 | For him the attraction of skyline walking is obvious — once you have made the initial effort to climb the first peak , everything else that follows is usually progressively less strenuous . |
| 5 | She adds : ‘ Even if you feel at times that you ca n't face the extra work in the kitchen that Christmas seems to involve , it 's worth making the extra effort once a year . |
| 6 | Making the right effort : accepting the need to pursue moral , mental and spiritual disciplines without losing heart . |
| 7 | I do n't think Norman would want it to be dwelt upon , but he deserves our making the imaginative effort to appreciate the scale of those climbs for a man with artificial legs . |
| 8 | The island no longer gave men without much capital the economic opportunity sometimes to be found on a frontier , where land can be acquired cheaply by anyone prepared to make the great effort needed to clear it and plant the first crops . |
| 9 | Each age and each individual has to make the imaginative effort to appropriate the religious tradition and make it their own , as Julian did . |