Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [adj] effort [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 I would like to see a real effort to include consumer views .
2 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 .
3 It is up to government and industry , as well as those with resources in land and money , to make a concerted effort to secure our country 's wealth and heritage for the future .
4 Tomorrow is Day 7 , and you need to make a concerted effort to ensure that the results at the beginning of Day 8 really demonstrate your progress through the week .
5 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 .
6 They agreed to invite more men to the next meeting ( two attended the Harare workshop ) and to make a concerted effort to bring their concerns to the AACC leadership .
7 On the final lap , Mark Smyth ( O'Rourkes Coal ) opened a small gap just before the climb and he was joined first by Graham , then Alastair Martin ( Ardsike the Bike ) and Gerald Irvine ( Toyota North Down ) with Cormac McCann ( Phoenix ) the last to make a successful effort to bridge 21 the gap .
8 We need to make a bigger effort to respect each other , respect each other irrespective of differences , respect each other as women and as half of the human race .
9 In addition it made some recommendations to BRAC , one of which was to encourage BRAC to make a greater effort to cooperate with the local village practitioners .
10 Practitioners and clients are the best experts on their problems so researchers need to make a greater effort to learn from and listen to practice .
11 Try to persuade him to make a real effort to give up smoking — he may put on a bit of weight but he can tackle that later — and to eat frequent snacks throughout the day instead of two or three heavy meals .
12 She had needed to make a real effort to get up today at all .
13 The 1982 A.G.M. was very poorly attended , especially by Q.T.s and we need to make a great effort to improve on this next year .
14 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 .
15 I have to make a great effort to keep the tent tidy .
16 They will have to make a conscious effort to treat the assessment of need as a separate exercise from consideration of the service response .
17 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 .
18 But the world was moving on , and national agendas were changing both in the United States and in Britain , a fact soon to be underlined by a British prime minister who was to make a conscious effort to grade Western Europe above the United States in Britain 's list of national priorities .
19 ‘ Four clubs have asked me to play next season , and I 'm going to make a big effort to get fit again .
20 From now to the end of the year we can expect governments to make a big effort to secure a settlement .
21 okay you find it hard you find it hard to do to make a special effort what is it you have to make a special effort to do ?
22 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 .
23 We need to make a special effort to fundraise this year — so — Please publicise this with your class members and also request contributions for the stalls and contact holders as follows : —
24 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 .
25 As Rostov watched , he seemed to make a deliberate effort to compose himself .
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