Example sentences of "effort to make [noun] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His presence transcends our best efforts to make relationships work . |
| 2 | Eric Blyth says the best option is to use the technology along with efforts to make children want to be in school . |
| 3 | Spaniards have been told the time of sacrifice is over ; now come the years of effort — an effort to make Spain fit to enter European monetary and economic union in 1997 . |
| 4 | Some of her friends bought cushions and pictures and even , extravagantly , curtains , in an effort to make rooms look homely , and though she liked the results , she viewed the aim with contempt . |
| 5 | Women are up well before dawn and may have only five or six hours sleep a night in the effort to make ends meet . |
| 6 | ‘ Enjoying banter with the regulars and making a special effort to make newcomers feel welcome is a tough job when the hours may be 11am to 11pm . |
| 7 | Far from being a romantic reaction against science , this represents an effort to make people recognize that the scientific concepts which permeate our society have implications far beyond the immediate domain of their technical application , and that they are rooted in seemingly more primitive modes of thought such as story-telling . |