Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [adj] effort [to-vb] " 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 | Mr Major has made a special effort to patch up relations with Germany . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) has begun a massive effort to scrape up hundreds of truckloads of dirt and dispose of it , either in waste dumps or by incineration . |
| 7 | As Rostov watched , he seemed to make a deliberate effort to compose himself . |
| 8 | I would like to see a real effort to include consumer views . |
| 9 | ‘ Four clubs have asked me to play next season , and I 'm going to make a big effort to get fit again . |
| 10 | She had needed to make a real effort to get up today at all . |
| 11 | Energy applications for muon catalysed fusion , Jones ' main research line up to that time , were appearing to be very remote and in August 1988 Jones decided to mount a vigorous effort to pursue the piezonuclear fusion . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They will have to make a conscious effort to treat the assessment of need as a separate exercise from consideration of the service response . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We 've made a determined effort to try to get more er drug addicts to come forward , to accept treatment and so on . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In an attempt to counter this , many North American teachers have begun making a conscious effort to help their young students ‘ develop ’ a child 's ‘ natural ’ curiosity about the world — not the TV world , but the actual world around them . |
| 24 | In March Poland had begun a concerted effort to reduce its foreign debts of $48,500 million , winning concessions on interest payments from the United States and the " Paris Club " of 17 creditor countries [ see p. 38107 ] . |
| 25 | In line with the recent emphasis on leisure in our society , libraries have made a concerted effort to attract young people . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | So since 1979 the Conservatives have made a determined effort to curtail local expenditure . |
| 28 | The regulators have made a big effort to prevent KKR 's involvement openly breaching the famous walls between banking and commerce . |
| 29 | Hence , during my time in post I have made a positive effort to spread the gospel of AI within at least the Engineering Branch . |
| 30 | I have to make a great effort to keep the tent tidy . |