Example sentences of "[art] effort [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Think how it wakes the seeds ’ , this itself suggests that the force in question is not God and is indifferent to whether the man lives or dies as although it takes the effort to wake the seeds and the earth it can not wake ‘ sides full-nerved — still warm ’ . |
| 2 | A breath on the flames , and there would be fire from end to end of the march ; and the Prince was in urgent but still friendly correspondence with King Henry in the effort to settle the dissensions peacefully and without affront to either Welsh or English honour . |
| 3 | At the same time , Greenpeace released the results of an opinion poll which showed that six out of ten of those questioned wanted the government to give greater priority to renewable-energy projects as part of the effort to counter the greenhouse effect . |
| 4 | One of the liberalizing facets of NEP was the effort to reconcile the Bolsheviks and local nationalists , and even Stalin endorsed it . |
| 5 | Thank you for all the effort to put the blinds down very much . |
| 6 | It 's a policy of the stadium , if they come then we 'll make the effort to put the racing on for them . |
| 7 | One can easily see in this historical account the effort to explain the disaster as God 's punishment for the sins committed under Bayezid I. He and his Ali Pasha are accused of encroaching upon the and introducing innovations in the government . |
| 8 | It was , partly , against this background that the government decided to launch a state-sponsored newspaper to act as a unifying factor in the nation , and help in the effort to improve the quality of print journalism in the country , besides helping to bring government policy and other activities to the awareness of all citizens . |
| 9 | It was , partly , against this background that the government decided to launch a state-sponsored newspaper to act as a unifying factor in the nation , and help in the effort to improve the quality of print journalism in the country , besides helping to bring government policy and other activities to the awareness of all citizens . |
| 10 | It then makes sense to make the effort to improve the lighting . |
| 11 | Hilton sums up the whole process as he has defined it in Book One through the two images of sin and Christ with a quotation from Galatians 4:19 : Scale 1 , then , maps the whole area of the contemplative life and shows it may be accessed through inner participation in the truth revealed at the Incarnation : Most of the book , however , is occupied with the effort to clarify the process by which the reformation to the likeness of Jesus in his manhood may be begun , the experience of this likeness in the reformed " " of the soul and how it leads to contemplation of the Godhead is not explored in any fullness although it is present as a stated goal . |
| 12 | The effort to explore the energy potential of the volcano began in 1986 with financial help from the US Agency for International Development ( USAID ) and the United Nations . |
| 13 | Sir John Hoskyns , a former head of Mrs Thatcher 's Policy Unit , has called for a radical reform of the government system if the effort to transform the economy is to succeed . |
| 14 | THE effort to herd the Scapa Flow whales to safety ended in success last night . |
| 15 | Simon Burns , who was involved in the effort to get the families re-united , said they all looked well . |
| 16 | His brow furrowed with the effort to understand the concept of a laboratory and the arcane art of surgery . |
| 17 | Although the Nigeria debate was a relative success after a year of criticism , its significance was not lost on Law : it was held on the subject central to Unionist economic attitudes ; Law and Steel-Maitland were singled out for censure , a pointer to the level of party discontent Party feeling had built up much as Law 's own had done ; having fought off the direct attack , he took the party along with him in the effort to reconstruct the government on more businesslike lines . |
| 18 | In the Smolensk area as elsewhere , they linked up with agricultural advisers in the effort to make the peasants realize that subsistence farming was a form of self-exploitation , since their energies were dissipated in a multitude of tiring undertakings . |
| 19 | Although the Hexams ' Thames-side tenement , a former mill , in Our Mutual Friend , is in itself atrocious — ‘ roof , and walls , and floor … alike had a look of decomposition ’ — it is the effort to make the place a home — ‘ a small dresser , making a spare show of the commonest articles of crockery and cooking vessels ’ that is drawn to the reader 's attention . |
| 20 | Instead they implore scientists to ‘ ponder on the social implications of their work ’ and to become actively involved in the effort to stem the arms race . |
| 21 | And the successful formalization of data can open up questions for research , and types of evidence , which would not have occurred to the research community without the effort to present the data in computer-friendly form . |
| 22 | Tory leader Coun Tony Richmond said the blame for that lost opportunity lay completely with Labour breaking the golden rule and failing to use a Government minister in the effort to attract the company . |
| 23 | COSE , it turns out , is part of a much wider recipe that was originally cooked up by Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp , prime movers in the effort to meet the threat to Unix — and OS/2 for that matter — posed by Microsoft Corp 's forthcoming Windows NT operating system , and probably two of the firms with potentially the most to lose . |
| 24 | COSE , it has emerged , is part of a much wider recipe that was originally cooked up by Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp , prime movers in the effort to meet the threat of Microsoft Corp Windows NT , and probably two of the firms with potentially the most to lose . |
| 25 | If you suspect you will be facing a greater daemon spare no effort to acquire the Banishment spell . |
| 26 | It takes no effort to lift the shafts . |
| 27 | Yuri Rudakov settled in the bed beside her , he made no effort to close the gap between them . |
| 28 | It attracted more retail savings than even the government , which spares no effort to tap the market . |
| 29 | Though it is mistaken to suppose that the British made no effort to leave the Masai better than they found them , it is clear that their potential emergence from the colonial period much as they had entered it was something their administrators could in the end accept with equanimity . |
| 30 | OVER the past few weeks Spain 's government has spared no effort to defend the peseta within Europe 's battered exchange-rate mechanism . |