Example sentences of "['s] efforts [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time the manager 's efforts to arrange a Scottish fixture led to an invitation from a Glasgow sports journalist for Huddersfield to play in Scotland . |
| 2 | The industry 's expansion is the result of the IDA 's efforts to create a new industry to take over from the ailing assembly , light manufacturing , and textile industries that started Ireland 's industrialisation in the early 1950s . |
| 3 | The US government 's efforts to create a long-term repository for nuclear waste have received a setback with the announcement that a deep underground salt chamber in New Mexico provisionally selected for this purpose may be close to collapse . |
| 4 | Peres 's efforts to form a new government were thwarted a matter of hours before the April 11 Knesset confidence debate was set to open when two of the five ultra-orthodox Agudat Yisrael members withdrew their support from Labour , saying that they could not support a government sustained by Arab supporters of the Palestine Liberation Organization . |
| 5 | On Afghanistan it welcomed the latest initiative by the UN Secretary General to find a political solution , and supported " the Afghan mujaheddin 's efforts to form a broad-based government " . |
| 6 | Parsons 's efforts to build a general theory of action , though criticised in some quarters , did at least provide an ambition for social research as something it could and ought to contribute to . |
| 7 | In addition both sides expressed support for the UN Secretary-General 's efforts to achieve a stable peace between Iran and Iraq , and for the efforts of the Arab League and the Committee of Three to bring stability in Lebanon in line with the Taif accords [ see p. 36986 ] , and stated that they were willing to promote peace dialogues in the Horn of Africa . |
| 8 | Throughout these first months it appears that Jaruzelski supported First Secretary Kania 's efforts to achieve a political solution . |
| 9 | Huxley 's Man 's Place in Nature of 1863 also confirmed the anatomical similarities between humans and great apes , undermining Owen 's efforts to establish an unbridgeable gulf between them . |
| 10 | It was before Spain had joined the Common Market and United Biscuits ' efforts to acquire a suitable company in one of the EEC countries had come to nought . |