Example sentences of "made a conscious " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marie made a conscious effort to close her mouth , which she knew was hanging open . |
| 2 | Michael Bentley suggests that the actions of the Conservative leaders were deliberate for the , ‘ Conservatives made a conscious attempt to eradicate all traces of policy in order to appear stolid and silhouette Lloyd George as a very dangerous thing . ’ |
| 3 | Anger was getting close to being out of control , Briant suddenly realized , and he made a conscious effort to push it down . |
| 4 | From about the mid-1870s the YMCA made a conscious effort to recruit more adolescent and working-class members , and extended its interests to include additional recreational and sporting facilities . |
| 5 | ‘ We made a conscious decision not to use the horn section this time around , so we could have more space for the guitar . |
| 6 | A ‘ commercial operation but not run for commercial values ’ , it made a conscious decision some years ago to recruit the ‘ best people available ’ . |
| 7 | The priest found his eyes drawn towards it and made a conscious effort to stop staring at it . |
| 8 | This group , all known to each other , were daily injectors of ‘ speed ’ and made a conscious decision to change to what they thought was a ‘ less dangerous drug ’ . |
| 9 | A radical minority of the intelligentsia took their criticism beyond intellectual dissent , broke their ties with conventional society and made a conscious commitment to the revolutionary overthrow of the tsarist order . |
| 10 | ‘ I made a conscious decision to go out as much as possible when I had the baby , ’ she says , ‘ because I knew the walls would close in on me if I did n't . |
| 11 | Ian , a 32-year-old salesman , says : ‘ I made a conscious decision to drink low-alcohol lager because entertaining , and therefore drinking , is what I do for a living . |
| 12 | During three weeks ' leave in England he resigned his Trinity scholarship and made a conscious decision to return to Spain for the duration of the war . |
| 13 | He started to protest , but then he seemed to remember his promise and made a conscious effort to stop himself . |
| 14 | Her body still clenched by the tension which had gripped her since the overwhelming surprise of Luke 's reference to Elise , Merrill made a conscious effort to loosen up . |
| 15 | Commentators noted that , throughout the negotiations , the USA made a conscious effort to distance itself from the proceedings . |
| 16 | He made a conscious choice to put transatlantic links above relations with Western Europe . |
| 17 | Leith only just managed to stop her jaw from dropping at the astuteness of the man when he continued , ‘ Having left Ardis and applied for a job here , you then made a conscious decision to dress down your looks and conceal your figure , though not because of any sexual hang-up ? |
| 18 | They made a conscious decision not to deal with the new carpet superstores , largely because profit margins would be so low in that their bulk purchasing power made them able to demand low margins . |