Example sentences of "[verb] make [art] [adj] effort " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Japanese industry has made a real effort to reduce energy use and particularly to cut oil consumption . |
| 3 | It is always so annoying when one has made a particular effort to check a point and something still goes wrong . |
| 4 | The South African Area continues to work hard in support of both the Association and the RAF Benevolent Fund , and has made a special effort this year , the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain . |
| 5 | Mr Major has made a special effort to patch up relations with Germany . |
| 6 | An occasional treat or privilege for a child who has made a big effort to master a new skill or managed to give up a bad habit hardly comes into that category . |
| 7 | Where handwritten texts are at issue , it is often the case that the individual reproducing the text in a printed version has to make a considerable effort of interpretation to assign a value to some of the less legible words . |
| 8 | Thus , the Chancellor of the Exchequer has to make a special effort in every budget to ensure that tax rates ( or thresholds ) are adjusted in line with inflation — unless , of course , he particularly wishes to increase the tax burden of these groups as part of his economic strategy . |
| 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 . |
| 10 | As Rostov watched , he seemed to make a deliberate effort to compose himself . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Four clubs have asked me to play next season , and I 'm going to make a big effort to get fit again . |
| 13 | She had needed to make a real effort to get up today at all . |
| 14 | Not now , not next year but in the next twenty years so there are a problem with schools , there are problems , I think , with changing leisure habits er people , the way that people take their leisure has changed over the last twenty years and not always have clubs , organizations and sailing schools taken account of that in , in their programme , especially with youngsters and I have to say I also believe there is apathy in some clubs and other organizations , not every club has an active youth sailing scheme and I believe that any club that does n't either must be extremely popular because of its er prices of beer or , or some other reason or it may not exist perhaps in twenty years ' time , so I think it 's an ext extremely important topic brought about by the maybe , without being melodramatic , some of the stuff that we 're reading in the papers about youngsters these days but looking at it from a purely selfish sailing point of view if we 're to get more youngsters into the sport even if we 're to hold our ground we 've got to make a big effort over , over this year and , and it 's important make sure that it runs on for future years . |
| 15 | okay you find it hard you find it hard to do to make a special effort what is it you have to make a special effort to do ? |
| 16 | Under emergency procedure I put in the words in the second line , after having made every reasonable effort to consult with the chief executive . |
| 17 | With the inevitable increase in office rent , rates , postage , telephone and stationery etc. it is obvious that we shall all have to make a great effort to overcome this problem . |
| 18 | They will have to make a conscious effort to treat the assessment of need as a separate exercise from consideration of the service response . |
| 19 | We 've never been keen gardeners but last year we decided to make a special effort and bought a big selection of plants and seeds . |
| 20 | She caught him again on the way back between oven and table , and sank herself into him once more , but after a moment became conscious that he was having to make a considerable effort to hold the hot saucepan away from her at arm 's length . |
| 21 | You 're having to make a conscious effort to be detached , are n't you ? |
| 22 | they may not feel open to accepting that person into the family , very aware of having to make a conscious effort to put aside prejudices and stereotypes in order to get to know , like and accept him or her . |
| 23 | In view of the disadvantage which being in care all too often represents , that may sometimes mean making a special effort to ensure the quality of education given to children in care . |
| 24 | He claims that after his departure no one seems to have made a serious effort to keep workers informed on the dangers of the process , and especially of the need to cool it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We 've made a concerted effort in recent years to make the articles in our association magazine , Business Credit , relevant to the day-to-day problems credit and financial managers face , and to present the latest techniques and applications . |
| 27 | We 've made a determined effort to try to get more er drug addicts to come forward , to accept treatment and so on . |
| 28 | People were slow to come out and if these people had made a concerted effort in the beginning it might have been different ’ . |
| 29 | De Gaulle 's lucidity on this point was eventually justified by events , but not before the Americans had made a concerted effort to eliminate him as a political force . |
| 30 | There was no general ruling on what type of person was best able to carry out these tasks but the two most common groups were : ( a ) the older wife who had a great deal of experience , and ( b ) the young wife who had made a determined effort to acquire as much knowledge and skill as possible . |