Example sentences of "a [adj] effort [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a shop 's good enough , it 's worth making a little effort to get to . |
| 2 | She made a half-hearted effort to pull away from him , but ran into the implacable strength of his arm . |
| 3 | On the available evidence , the council 's policy after Edward 's death can best be summed up as a strenuous effort to preserve the balance of power established in the king 's second reign , and this was surely ( pace Mancini ) in response to the dead king 's own wishes . |
| 4 | On the available evidence , the council 's policy after Edward 's death can best be summed up as a strenuous effort to preserve the balance of power established in the king 's second reign , and this was surely ( pace Mancini ) in response to the dead king 's own wishes . |
| 5 | During the last five months he has made a strenuous effort to get to know the area and the residents of this constituency of contrasts . |
| 6 | It had been woken from its sleep by the central heating and in a state of despair and paranoia dive-bombed the double glazing in a vain effort to escape . |
| 7 | It was made by the furious last sweep of his indestructible sword Durandal , when he struck it against the rock in a vain effort to break it and so stop this epic weapon from falling into the hands of the Saracens : |
| 8 | The ‘ hybrid ’ looks less like a controlled experiment than a hasty effort to balance political opposites . |
| 9 | It is necessary for everyone to stand up and be counted in a combined effort to make all MPs and prospective parliamentary candidates state their stance on free public access . |
| 10 | With the conference appearing doomed to collapse over the issue of the fifth freedom , Canada made a last-ditch effort to save the situation by proposing the first four freedoms , and one weekly round-trip flight that could be increased under an escalator clause of 65 per cent capacity and over . |
| 11 | Last night , Mr Jones said he was involved in a last-ditch effort to save the unit . |
| 12 | But that did n't stop Bush campaigning vigorously in six battleground states yesterday in a last-ditch effort to throw off the veil of defeat which looms over him — and warning Clinton to put his planned victory parade on hold . |
| 13 | A LAST-ditch effort to bring 700 Army jobs to a city is to be made next week . |
| 14 | On June 3 Mulroney summoned a conference of provincial Premiers in the federal capital , Ottawa , in a last-ditch effort to break the deadlock . |
| 15 | The water seemed almost solid , and it was a heart-breaking effort to keep afloat , let alone swim ; the heavy dark mass kept closing over my head . |
| 16 | In a further effort to tackle the chronic air pollution of its capital , [ see EDs passim ] , the Mexican government has announced that all public transport and cargo vehicles in the city must convert to natural gas or liquid petroleum over the next three years . |
| 17 | She made a further effort to sit up , and groaned as a tide of pain engulfed her . |
| 18 | The Commissioner responsible for Agriculture , Ray McSharry , announced on July 12 that the Commission intended to increase the funding for its controversial " set-aside " scheme , whereby farmers were paid grants to keep farming land out of production , in a further effort to reduce over-production . |
| 19 | Lucaroni made a conspicuous effort to remember . |
| 20 | In a brave effort to recapture Sarajevo 's streets from the forces of destruction , tens of thousands of pensioners , families and workers flooded into the capital to demand an immediate ceasefire and the formation of a government of national unity . |
| 21 | More recently , the couple made a brave effort to live a normal life for the children . |
| 22 | In this instance , a well-meaning effort to give an individual the right to choose how he led his life — arguably a choice which any ‘ normal ’ person enjoys — had led to that individual becoming increasingly isolated and rejected . |
| 23 | This followed United States calls for a multilateral effort to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons development programme [ see also this page ] . |
| 24 | Despite this , the LNU invested its hopes less in the efficacy of a transnational effort to sustain a people 's peace — no other country had an organized public opinion remotely comparable to Britain 's — than in its capacity to influence British Governments . |
| 25 | The company had not made a proper effort to place her in a comparable position in another store . |
| 26 | Thomson Holidays , Britain 's biggest package holiday company , this week made a fresh effort to stimulate bookings for winter holidays by cutting prices on 100,000 holidays . |
| 27 | In a fresh effort to secure Jimmy Dunne , Chapman arranged to go to Sheffield with his chairman and vice-chairman — in secret , or so he thought . |
| 28 | ( It was a painful effort to personalize It even to the extent of apportioning sex . ) |
| 29 | The central feature is a case conference which brings together parents , governors , teachers and other professionals in a joint effort to resolve the problem presented by the case . |
| 30 | Unix International , the Open Software Foundation , X/Open Group Co Ltd , ISO , the Network Management Forum and the Object Management Group are co-operating in a joint effort to define some generic specifications for managing resources ( as objects ) in distributed , object-based systems . |