Example sentences of "effort [to-vb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Gentleman Jim ’ had previously retired from the ring rather than do combat with a black man , but was tempted in an effort to curb the mounting confidence of blacks and re-establish white dominance in the sport . |
| 2 | In an effort to combat the chronic air pollution affecting Mexico City , the Mexican government on March 18 ordered the immediate closure of the country 's largest oil refinery , responsible for emissions of carbon dioxide , sulphur dioxide , benzene and other pollutants . |
| 3 | THE International Olympic Committee are today holding an emergency meeting with the committee organising the Barcelona Games ( COBB ) in an effort to combat the spiralling size of this summer 's Olympics . |
| 4 | The change , which affects sellers and buyers where they are both VAT registered or are liable to be registered as a result of a transaction and the buyer is making the purchase in connection with his or her business , was made in an effort to combat the growing number of serious VAT frauds involving smuggled gold . |
| 5 | The Zimbabwean government has reported that several countries have offered to buy 25 tonnes of its ivory stocks , worth £9 million , in order to destroy them , in an effort to enforce the international ban on the trade in ivory . |
| 6 | The meeting had been called in an effort to heal the renewed rift between the two Presidents resulting from the October retreat by the central administration from radical economic reform . |
| 7 | Brian Mulroney , the Prime Minister , reshuffled his 39-member Cabinet on Feb. 23 in an effort to bolster the waning popularity of his Progressive Conservative Party ( PCP ) government . |
| 8 | The protests continued and in early April , in an effort to contain the mounting unrest , King Birendra dismissed the Prime Minister , Marich Man Singh Shrestha , and appointed in his place the moderate Lokendra Bahadur Chand . |
| 9 | It is hoped they will stump up the money needed to take over 10,000 properties in an effort to revive the collapsing housing market . |
| 10 | In 1797 the young Poles of Danzig did stage a street demonstration , but that was the limit of their effort to revive the Polish state , and the limit of their willingness to parade a Polish identity . |
| 11 | " Where is no substitute for information and many problems can be solved just by making an effort to find the right information ( market research , production costs , financing availability ) . |
| 12 | Hugh had gone into San Pietro in an effort to find the Daily Telegraph which had disappeared from their lives with Signor Fixit . |
| 13 | Drink : Street smart to lure finer wine seekers : The off-licence chains are making a big effort to catch the up-market customer , says Anthony Rose |
| 14 | In an effort to retrieve the lost ground the Democratic majority within Congress approved a civil rights bill in 1990 which was vetoed by Bush [ see p. 37769 ] . |
| 15 | The Mexican government has ordered the closure of the country 's largest oil refinery in an effort to tackle the chronic air pollution afflicting the capital , Mexico City . |
| 16 | In a further effort to tackle the chronic air pollution of its capital , [ see EDs passim ] , the Mexican government has announced that all public transport and cargo vehicles in the city must convert to natural gas or liquid petroleum over the next three years . |
| 17 | Whereas in most databases you have to go to quite a lot of effort to create the linked structure , in Delta Five it is expected that your databases will have this structure , and you have to work quite hard not to conform ! |
| 18 | He instructed his new ministers , however , to resign their faction memberships , and he ordered them to refrain from all stock market dealings , while also returning one-10th of their salaries to the Treasury , in an effort to regain the political prestige of the Cabinet . |
| 19 | More importantly , it has centralised its research and development effort to select the key breeding elements to suit the needs of each country . |
| 20 | As part of the effort to resettle the long-stay population the occupational and industrial therapy departments were integrated to offer 180 places specifically for this group . |
| 21 | The line is touted as the first step in an aggressive effort to redesign the entire spectrum of Unisys desktop , workstation and entry-level server platforms and to accelerate its engineering , design , manufacturing and time-to-market . |
| 22 | It required an effort to conceal the sharp stab of pain his words had caused , but she agreed with a light , ‘ Three cheers for upbringing . |
| 23 | And therefore this young evangelical churchman had something original to say , which was an effort to fuse the Protestant idea with the Catholic idea as they were fused within his personal history . |
| 24 | As a safety-valve mechanism as well as in the effort to use the peripheral labour resources productively , liberal economists such as Vera Lutz have recommended the encouragement of emigration to areas of labour-scarcity , but this may also produce problems of integration in the long term . |
| 25 | A volunteer worker took the dead baby and mother back to the hospital where the baby was immediately admitted and then pronounced dead in an effort to rectify the original mistake . |
| 26 | Each age and each individual has to make the imaginative effort to appropriate the religious tradition and make it their own , as Julian did . |
| 27 | It is seen as being a vital component in the effort to regenerate the rural economy in North Wales . |
| 28 | Deng Xiaoping , China 's " elder statesman " leader , had considerable success during March in his effort to reinforce the reformist line which he had been actively promoting since early January . |
| 29 | This relatively smooth response to the second oil shock has been interpreted as a united , collective effort to resolve the severe crisis of the mid-1970s which had exposed Japan 's energy vulnerability and her fragile political consensus . |
| 30 | The student may seek escape in passivity and make only perfunctory efforts to learn the target language ; or he may express antagonism by making no effort to adopt the correct pronunciation or by a deliberate use of native language patterns in the target language . |