Example sentences of "[adj] effort [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This approach is inefficient since the computational effort to produce the parses has already been expended . |
| 2 | In this instance , a well-meaning effort to give an individual the right to choose how he led his life — arguably a choice which any ‘ normal ’ person enjoys — had led to that individual becoming increasingly isolated and rejected . |
| 3 | Despite this , the LNU invested its hopes less in the efficacy of a transnational effort to sustain a people 's peace — no other country had an organized public opinion remotely comparable to Britain 's — than in its capacity to influence British Governments . |
| 4 | Over the past few decades , in particular , in structuralist anthropology , psychoanalysis , and Marxist theory , there has been a major theoretical effort to challenge the naturalness of the ‘ unitary subject ’ in social theory , to see the individual as a product of social forces , an ‘ ensemble of social relations ’ , rather than as a simple natural unity . |
| 5 | This continual effort to expound a programme gave the Rassemblement somewhat greater legitimacy as a democratic movement , but it also made it seem very much a party like all the others . |
| 6 | Taking a deep breath , he made a visible effort to push the nightmare aside , and grinned down at her . |
| 7 | This year of 1944 saw the supreme Japanese effort to break the deadlock which had bogged down the Burma front . |
| 8 | The arbitrary inclusion of artworks in the exhibition is further evidence of a curatorial effort to construct a narrative of ‘ situationism ’ . |
| 9 | Where it differs , is in that it makes a serious effort to put the bits back together again ! |
| 10 | The central feature is a case conference which brings together parents , governors , teachers and other professionals in a joint effort to resolve the problem presented by the case . |
| 11 | Viewed in the long term , the importance of the Expenditure Committee was that it helped to persuade the Commons as a whole of the need for a more comprehensive effort to review the processes of public administration . |
| 12 | This usually happens after a fairly senior personal effort to cheer the Distillers Company on to greater profitability , but not always . |
| 13 | In the case of the latter , the last straw in Wilson 's continuing agitation and " one of the greatest blunders the union ever made " , thought Walter Runciman , " was the despotic effort to make the officers and engineers join a union . |
| 14 | It would have taken no additional effort to assemble a selection representative of the period and presenting a new view of many leading artists ' activities and styles applied to this medium . |
| 15 | It would also put in jeopardy the global effort to halt the spread of nuclear weapons . |
| 16 | Some people worry that this argument , along with cheating by Iraq , North Korea and others , could fatally undermine the NPT , and with it the global effort to halt the spread of nuclear weapons . |
| 17 | The shoot was waylaid by litigation , however , after Mr Kluge 's Irish and British gamekeepers were convicted of killing hundreds of protected hawks and owls — and some of the neighbours ' dogs — in an authentic effort to keep the game alive for the pleasure of the guests . |
| 18 | A similar effort to control the boundaries within which sexuality might legally be expressed was inherent in the late Victorian attempt to regulate prostitution . |
| 19 | Indeed parallel with developments in the methodology of the survey , there has been a similar effort to make the interview a much more standardised , methodical and effective instrument of social inquiry . |
| 20 | The antitrust policy of the Reagan administration was part and parcel of an overall effort to get the government out of the market , and to permit competition to set prices and production . |
| 21 | His last years saw in Maupeou 's attack on the parlements a real effort to give the monarchy more freedom of action , and in the radical fiscal expedients of the Abbé Terray ( Controller-General , 1770–74 ) a partially successful attempt to ease its financial position . |
| 22 | There had been little real effort to impose a change before the dismissals were made . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's a magazine , ’ Georgina said , making an obvious effort to keep the pity for someone Matthew 's age out of her voice . |
| 24 | When jury selection commenced on Sept. 5 , the defence vainly made a last-minute effort to get the trial dismissed , alleging government breach of ethics because it had just learned that Noriega 's former lawyer , Raymond Takiff , who had advised him to surrender to US authorities in January 1990 , was at the time working secretly for federal authorities . |
| 25 | ‘ Has Rodney solved the murder yet ? ’ asked Melissa , making little effort to keep the sarcasm from her voice . |
| 26 | A joint Anglo-French effort to recover the cargo was abandoned on April 25 with four of the containers , including one containing 5.6 tonnes of Lindane , a highly toxic pesticide , still missing . |
| 27 | AN Ayrshire schoolboy 's shock at conditions in an East African secondary school has sparked off a remarkable effort to help the pupils . |
| 28 | They will have to make a conscious effort to treat the assessment of need as a separate exercise from consideration of the service response . |
| 29 | The family were Presbyterians , and her conscious effort to acquire an education began at the age of six , when she heard a sermon she could not understand , and from that time she adopted a plan for acquiring information through asking the meaning of every new word she heard . |
| 30 | It took a conscious effort to resist the urge to close my eyes , while I signalled to the traffic behind and made an emergency stop . |