Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] a [adj] effort [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We either have them or we do not , although we can at times make a conscious effort to put certain feelings out of our minds . |
| 2 | Yet even at the height of this bitter struggle the foreign ministry made a considerable effort to foster Catholic missions in the Near East as vehicles of French influence there . |
| 3 | And although Lucy made a valiant effort to control her quickening breath , the mad thumping of her heart and the heated excitement rising within her , it was a losing battle — and at last she gave herself up to the rapturous bliss of the moment . |
| 4 | Marie made a conscious effort to close her mouth , which she knew was hanging open . |
| 5 | It is also easier to stop the forward movement in this situation , since many models require a positive effort to make headway against anything more than a stiff breeze . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Lucaroni made a conspicuous effort to remember . |
| 8 | Feeling her temper begin to rise again , Rory made a concerted effort to rein it in . |
| 9 | LENTON and Wortley Hall Association is following the lead of Convocation and asking the Hall 's alumni from these years to make a special effort to attend the 1992 reunion which is to be held in the Hall from 2nd-4th October . |
| 10 | The President of the World Bank , Barber Conable , urged the international community to make a concerted effort to reduce world poverty by adopting development policies and assistance programmes aimed specifically at helping the poor . |
| 11 | From now to the end of the year we can expect governments to make a big effort to secure a settlement . |
| 12 | Sinking back into his chair , McGuigan makes a conscious effort to suppress his emotions . |
| 13 | Virginia made a supreme effort to pull herself together . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His comments suggested a co-ordinated effort to plant explosives in India 's two largest cities . |
| 16 | Apart from a very limited number of highly specialist areas of the environment where changes will automatically trigger responses within the enterprise ( e.g. the financial markets , meteorology ) , an enterprise can not respond to changes in its environment unless someone , or some people make(s) a positive effort to transfer information about the changes to the person or persons within the enterprise charged with responding to the changes ( or not , as the case might be ) . |
| 17 | Bill made a determined effort to push me aside and I had to let him . |
| 18 | It is not that academic critics make a conscious effort to imitate their colleagues in the sciences , it is that they have come to adopt their concept of knowledge , and its professional servicing and supportive structures . |
| 19 | Mr Hunt made a good effort to attract business to the state , but his political reforms floundered . |
| 20 | The National Committee for Superconductivity ( NCS ) believes that Britain needs a determined effort to take advantage of the opportunities offered by high temperature superconductors . |
| 21 | Battles are rare , and mostly involve a stallion in his prime making a determined effort to wrest the harem from an older stallion . |
| 22 | For the sake of your health make a determined effort to stop smoking . |
| 23 | The formation of such a vacuum is a dangerous possibility which will be avoided only if the nations of the world make a concerted effort to clean up the religious chaos once and for all . |
| 24 | THE war on violence will be won only if the world makes a determined effort to stop the flow of arms to trouble spots . |
| 25 | The Funny Farm makes a special effort to help up and coming bands . |
| 26 | Meanwhile Lieutenant Denis O'Flaherty and Trooper Sherington made a determined effort to reach the warehouse ( 'F' ) with Peter Young , who saw three stick grenades flung towards him in quick succession ; the first two missed and the third did not go off . |
| 27 | More recently , the couple made a brave effort to live a normal life for the children . |
| 28 | Commentators noted that , throughout the negotiations , the USA made a conscious effort to distance itself from the proceedings . |
| 29 | While Cato was still alive the Roman governing class made a determined effort to get to know the Celts better . |
| 30 | 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 . |