Example sentences of "effort [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There followed a joint Anglo-American effort to outbid the Soviets for Nasser 's favour ( there had already been an Egyptian–Czech arms deal ) by offering to help finance the ambitious Aswan high dam project . |
| 2 | The programme which will be jointly run with NASA in the US , involves 80 agricultural experts in 15 countries around the world in an effort to estimate the implications for global food supply of warming due to the greenhouse effect . |
| 3 | Mr Justice Ognall said that after carrying out the killing , Green ‘ took determined and sophisticated steps in an effort to mislead the police ’ . |
| 4 | Mr Justice Ognall said that after carrying out the killing , Green ‘ took determined and sophisticated steps in an effort to mislead the police ’ . |
| 5 | If that failed , a group of ships and boats would have to be used in an effort to drive the whales out into the Pentland Firth . |
| 6 | In the Maxwell case such vigilance was notably absent ; not one of those with a professional or personal interest — or duty-made any effort to alert the regulator . ’ |
| 7 | A hundred thousand jobs have been thrown away , along with many million tonnes of coal reserves — not to increase productivity and efficiency but in a madcap effort to curb the power of Britain 's miners … |
| 8 | In an effort to curb the man-eaters some very strange ruses have recently been attempted , including putting out dummy woodcutters wired up to give an electric shock . |
| 9 | In an effort to stimulate the economy the Banque de France on March 18 lowered its intervention rate by 0.25 of a percentage point to 9 per cent ( the first reduction since October ) " in line with the softening of rates on the money market and favourable elements regarding inflation " . |
| 10 | I had , on the way back , made one more effort to penetrate the situation ; by trying , too casually , to get him to talk about Leverrier . |
| 11 | ‘ How is Kathleen ? ’ she asked , to give herself some time and in an effort to restore the conversation to a level on which she could cope . |
| 12 | Through the New Times of Burma and the Burmese Weekly we did everything possible to appeal for a concerted effort to restore the cultivation of rice to the pre-war level . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If you suspect you will be facing a greater daemon spare no effort to acquire the Banishment spell . |
| 16 | They will have to make a conscious effort to treat the assessment of need as a separate exercise from consideration of the service response . |
| 17 | In an effort to combat the isolation and fear I felt at the time , I sought out a number of parents in similar situations to my own ; we had to create our own support systems . |
| 18 | Medieval techniques of pollarding and woodland grazing are to be reintroduced in an effort to combat the decline of a group of 400 year-old beeches at Burnham Beeches , Buckinghamshire . |
| 19 | In an effort to enforce the ban , Taiwan 's Council on Agriculture , responsible for regulating the industry , is chartering three fishing boats this year in co-operation with the US , which is also monitoring the area . |
| 20 | Mr Lundy also wanted DIY stores themselves to learn from the tragedy and make greater effort to emphasise the dangers to the public and so attempt to cut the eight thousand accidents involving supermarket trollies every year . |
| 21 | Many village priests insisted on living in luxury , dressing in the best garb , jerkin and multi-coloured hose , and making every effort to palliate the hardships of their lives . |
| 22 | You could 've fooled me , ’ she lashed at him on a half-sob , her arms crossing her chest while her hands made an effort to massage the shoulder soreness caused by his gripping fingers . |
| 23 | The Netherlands is allowing land to become wild in an effort to encourage the butterflies to return . |
| 24 | Both the Delanos wrote books for children and adults in an effort to encourage the population to become more literate and hopefully generate a sense of pride in the history of the island . |
| 25 | THE effort to herd the Scapa Flow whales to safety ended in success last night . |
| 26 | In Jammu and Kashmir , local politician 's daughter Nahida Imtiaz Soz , kidnapped in Srinagar on Feb. 27 by the Jammu and Kashmir Student Liberation Front , was freed on March 8 in return for the release of an imprisoned " Pakistani-trained militant " , Mushtaq Ahmed ; three policemen had also been abducted in an effort to secure the release of five separatist activists . |
| 27 | Leaders of the consortium are preparing for discussions with three potential partners in an effort to secure the colliery 's financial position . |
| 28 | BCIG representatives , including chairman John Dyer , yesterday lobbied key MPs in an effort to secure the report 's earliest release . |
| 29 | We had worked extremely hard on the case and we were going to make every effort to secure the acquittal of our clients who had always protested their innocence . |
| 30 | Production of lists for specific purposes , such as registers of staff in each location , becomes straightforward and requires little effort to extract the data . |