Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] effort [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the average person fought any reasonably competent knifeman with bare hands , it 's unlikely that he or she would survive a determined effort to stab them to death . |
| 2 | The National Committee for Superconductivity ( NCS ) believes that Britain needs a determined effort to take advantage of the opportunities offered by high temperature superconductors . |
| 3 | Japanese industry has made a real effort to reduce energy use and particularly to cut oil consumption . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ The United Cricket Board and politicians have made a tremendous effort to bring fairness into our system , and it was great that we were being supported by everybody . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She has also made a concerted effort to improve her knowledge . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In line with the recent emphasis on leisure in our society , libraries have made a concerted effort to attract young people . |
| 10 | Mr Major has made a special effort to patch up relations with Germany . |
| 11 | In the poor north-eastern part of Brazil infant mortality went up by 20 per cent between 1982 and 1984 , even though the Brazilian government had made a special effort to establish more health-care facilities during the same period . |
| 12 | The regulators have made a big effort to prevent KKR 's involvement openly breaching the famous walls between banking and commerce . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When jury selection commenced on Sept. 5 , the defence vainly made a last-minute effort to get the trial dismissed , alleging government breach of ethics because it had just learned that Noriega 's former lawyer , Raymond Takiff , who had advised him to surrender to US authorities in January 1990 , was at the time working secretly for federal authorities . |
| 15 | The company had not made a proper effort to place her in a comparable position in another store . |
| 16 | So since 1979 the Conservatives have made a determined effort to curtail local expenditure . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We 've made a determined effort to try to get more er drug addicts to come forward , to accept treatment and so on . |
| 19 | It is always so annoying when one has made a particular effort to check a point and something still goes wrong . |
| 20 | Hence , during my time in post I have made a positive effort to spread the gospel of AI within at least the Engineering Branch . |
| 21 | The YHA has also made a positive effort to accommodate disabled hostellers and welcomes enquiries from them . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Paradoxically , the help rendered to the Party by the Armed Forces during political crises has reminded the party of this potential and invariably produced a redoubled effort to ensure military dependence upon Party and State . |
| 24 | Cognitive psychologists must make a greater effort to understand cognition as it occurs in the ordinary environment … pay more attention to the details of the real world in which perceivers and thinkers live … come to terms with the sophistication and complexity of the cognitive skills that people are really capable of acquiring , and with the fact that these skills undergo systematic development . |
| 25 | to go to the other extreme and over-indulge you must make a concerted effort to curb this . |
| 26 | In view of the late notification by the Sports Council advising that our grant for the current year would be out by £7000 the Society 's Steering Group felt we should all make a concerted effort to raise this amount so that all schemes and administration could continue as planned for 1988 . |
| 27 | I think we should make a serious effort to get some progress on this thing . ’ |
| 28 | And I must make a real effort to find one of these machines that 's working . |
| 29 | And I must make a real effort to find one of these machines that 's working . |
| 30 | ‘ Let's have a picnic , ’ she said , telling herself that next week she would make a real effort to work again at the practice of virtue . |