Example sentences of "make a conscious [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But not all the people involved have made a conscious choice to create this unit . |
| 2 | Belinda had made a conscious decision to have a baby and felt that it was important to keep healthy by eating well and exercising during her pregnancy . |
| 3 | This was the line of reasoning adopted in the Takeover Panel case : the government had apparently made a conscious decision to encourage the setting up of a self-regulatory body , and the Panel operated against the background of a network of statutory provisions relevant to its activities . |
| 4 | It was n't that she had ever made a conscious decision to play the helpless female ; she just always looked as though she was in constant need of care and attention , and over the years she had found that it was far easier to allow people to think what they liked , because whenever she tried to be assertive , or explain that she was really quite competent , no one ever believed her . |
| 5 | Well , for one thing , he did n't know about it and I had made a conscious decision that if I was ever to be ( he nearly says ’ become someone ’ ) . |
| 6 | As she revealed to writer Sherwood Anderson , she had made a conscious decision to limit the type of image she believed had been most susceptible to critical misreadings in 1923 : |
| 7 | Just lately I have made a conscious effort to really look at the book . |
| 8 | Though the man and I have made a conscious effort not to follow the marked paths of our genders , this life , its setpieces , are clichés of gender in spite of our best intentions . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | None the less , some statements by members of the Association reveal that the effacement required by this procedure was no more than a tactical ploy , since one of the dominant assumptions of moral education was " that morality was to be made a conscious aim of the teacher , but concealed from the pupils , who were to imbibe the influence from literature as habit or experience " . |
| 11 | There have been frequent and major set-backs ; and it may be that we are now on the threshold of a new era , in which , for the first time , leaders in society will make a conscious decision to allow the flood-waters in some areas to rise again . |
| 12 | Because then we could make a conscious decision as as a management team , as to whether we were gon na increase the price to five thousand five hundred or six thousand |
| 13 | Paula explains : ‘ I did make a conscious decision about ten years ago . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Therefore , keeping the client happy ought to be easy , but it can be a hard job if you do n't make a conscious effort . |
| 16 | He made a conscious choice to put transatlantic links above relations with Western Europe . |
| 17 | ‘ We made a conscious decision not to use the horn section this time around , so we could have more space for the guitar . |
| 18 | A ‘ commercial operation but not run for commercial values ’ , it made a conscious decision some years ago to recruit the ‘ best people available ’ . |
| 19 | This group , all known to each other , were daily injectors of ‘ speed ’ and made a conscious decision to change to what they thought was a ‘ less dangerous drug ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ I made a conscious decision to go out as much as possible when I had the baby , ’ she says , ‘ because I knew the walls would close in on me if I did n't . |
| 21 | Ian , a 32-year-old salesman , says : ‘ I made a conscious decision to drink low-alcohol lager because entertaining , and therefore drinking , is what I do for a living . |
| 22 | During three weeks ' leave in England he resigned his Trinity scholarship and made a conscious decision to return to Spain for the duration of the war . |
| 23 | Leith only just managed to stop her jaw from dropping at the astuteness of the man when he continued , ‘ Having left Ardis and applied for a job here , you then made a conscious decision to dress down your looks and conceal your figure , though not because of any sexual hang-up ? |
| 24 | They made a conscious decision not to deal with the new carpet superstores , largely because profit margins would be so low in that their bulk purchasing power made them able to demand low margins . |
| 25 | Marie made a conscious effort to close her mouth , which she knew was hanging open . |
| 26 | Anger was getting close to being out of control , Briant suddenly realized , and he made a conscious effort to push it down . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The priest found his eyes drawn towards it and made a conscious effort to stop staring at it . |
| 29 | He started to protest , but then he seemed to remember his promise and made a conscious effort to stop himself . |
| 30 | 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 . |