Example sentences of "['s] efforts [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had been there for thousands of years and had defeated the British Raj 's efforts to move it . |
| 2 | Never was much interested in anything except sex , despite my wife 's efforts to civilise me . |
| 3 | Yugoslavia 's efforts to tackle its economic crisis received a blow yesterday when Serbia , the largest republic , and Vojvodina province rejected the government 's emergency recovery plan . |
| 4 | I felt the miserable decline of my happiness as I imagined the girl 's innocence and the futility of her mother 's efforts to save her from a cruel death . |
| 5 | The party 's efforts to save its skin will be tested on June 17th , when its delayed seventh congress is due to start . |
| 6 | The picture that emerged was highly confusing , because she could not follow all its references , despite Clelia 's efforts to explain herself ; she found it impossible to sort out the complications of Clelia 's family , which seemed to contain , as well as a poet father , an equally if not more famous mother , and a large number of strangely named children . |
| 7 | For reasons best known to themselves , they attached great importance to the idiot 's efforts to fill his useless bath ( I think it was B ) and it seemed vital to their purpose that I too become involved with the whole farcical business and , what 's more , come up with some sort of an answer . |
| 8 | Every morning Vic drives over the flattened site of his Gran 's house and passes at chimney-pot level the one in which he himself grew up , where his widower father still stubbornly lives on in spite of all Vic 's efforts to persuade him to move , like a sailor clinging to the rigging of a sinking ship — buffeted , deafened and choked by the thundering torrent of traffic thirty yards from his bedroom window . |
| 9 | One could not doze easily as one had done in Matt Stukely 's day for there was something too insistently personal in this new parson 's efforts to reach them ; yet they had remained stolidly unreached till now when the fervour of his exhortation spoke to them as with an angel 's tongue . |
| 10 | ‘ Eventually , Mr Chapman 's efforts brought their reward . |
| 11 | Zoe 's efforts to push him into unsuitable employment had been annoying and resistible . |
| 12 | Some , such as Sharley McLean , now in her late sixties , have already survived Hitler 's efforts to silence them . |
| 13 | More seriously , she definitely agreed that Elaine 's efforts to give her confidence had worked . |
| 14 | For all the Chancellor 's efforts to tell us things will come right in time , it will take real , hard evidence that the deficit is coming down to protect Mr Lawson from the bitter mercies of the markets . |
| 15 | The ideal structure is created by plant and animal life in the soil : man 's efforts to produce it mechanically are , at best , a poor substitute for nature . |
| 16 | Yet despite staff 's efforts to orchestrate it , participation was low ; users preferred social rather than didactic activities . |
| 17 | ‘ Although beyond most people 's wildest dreams , the EB110 , and Bugatti 's efforts to revive itself , must n't go unnoticed ’ |
| 18 | MILLWALL 's efforts to get themselves on television succeeded earlier this season when their game against Liverpool made The Match . |
| 19 | The point of Yeo Davis was now clear : they were there to inform , inspire , and orchestrate a client 's efforts to get what he wanted , as efficiently as possible . |
| 20 | Huddersfield 's winger Billy Smith was felled on the edge of ( some said just outside ) the area , and he drove the ball home from the spot , despite the goalkeeper 's efforts to distract him by jumping up and down . |
| 21 | A resurgence of the rebellion among the nomadic Tuareg communities of northern Mali , and the army 's efforts to contain it , had become a source of growing concern to the government and international human rights organizations . |
| 22 | Several months before , he had been almost sleek , thanks to fourteen-mile walks and his wife 's efforts to police him at the table . |
| 23 | Instead of agonising over an indefinable concept of pain , why do we not simply study the individual 's efforts to stabilise its internal environment and then aid it or , at least , not intrude on those efforts without good reason ? |
| 24 | But its formula of the Son 's ‘ consubstantiality ’ with the Father was slow to gain general acceptance , despite Constantine 's efforts to impose it . |
| 25 | This is in line with the company 's efforts to raise its public image which have already resulted in a survey of client satisfaction , increased press coverage , the production of new marketing materials and a new house style . |
| 26 | Mr Peter the consultant orthopaedic surgeon who tended her first immediately after the accident at Hinchinbrook and thereafter in the year from April nineteen eighteen eight as well as seeing her from time to time since , had this to say about her parent 's efforts quote I think that without their constant support and stimulation and their determination that Anna Jane would function again as a rational human being . |
| 27 | The man 's efforts to comfort his young nephew collapsed in laughter , men slapping their hands together . |
| 28 | But with the Dalai Lama , who fled to India in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule , now honoured with a Nobel Peace Prize not merely for his religious work but for ‘ his struggle for the liberation of Tibet ’ , China 's efforts to keep him and his cause in quarantine will be all the more difficult . |
| 29 | The Kurds ' efforts to improve their lot have been blocked by their own tribal and ideological divisions , and by international indifference to their cause . |
| 30 | Liberal thinkers welcomed the view that evolution came about through the accumulation of animals ' efforts to conquer their environment , since this implied that the social progress resulting from commercial activity was a direct continuation of Nature 's development . |