Example sentences of "and seek [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I enjoyed my politico-legal activities and sought to give the best service I could . |
| 2 | Once the government began to exploit their possibilities by raising the true rate of duty and levying special impositions , Parliament remembered its powers and sought to recapture the commanding heights which it had surrendered . |
| 3 | But none of these explains the tireless persistence with which he both articulated and sought to reconcile the contradictory aspects of his thinking . |
| 4 | In the 1870s , a series of military reforms gave new impetus to the professionalization of the officer corps , and sought to emulate the Prussian example by introducing universal conscription , building a reserve of trained men , and reducing the size of the massive standing army . |
| 5 | The new budget granted greater financial autonomy to the public sector , and sought to encourage the private sector , both local and foreign , to invest and to increase employment . |
| 6 | The Under-Secretary of State for National Heritage , Robert Key , introducing the draft order , said the increase in funding was more than 5% , which recognised the costs of a new computer and sought to maintain the real level of the rate per loan to authors . |
| 7 | Drawing on North American experience , the Commission concluded that ‘ poor management was an important contributory factor to New York 's problems ’ , and sought to apply the same lessons here ( p. 2 ) . |
| 8 | Thirdly , he encouraged health improvements in an effort to raise the standards of hygiene and sought to contain the sweeping epidemics that intermittently tore through the population . |
| 9 | Certainly abolitionists used techniques which had a radical pedigree — this was a source of Wilberforce 's concern — but most of them did not tie them to programmes of large-scale reconstruction of the political order and sought to portray the economic change involved in abolition and emancipation as a smooth transition to a more profitable state of affairs . |
| 10 | The attempt is structured in terms of an historical overview of blacks ' attachments to sport , starting the analysis in the eighteenth century and seeking to document the social sources behind the enduring link . |
| 11 | In Conrad , for example , the focus lies in the sense of individual man vividly exploring and seeking to comprehend the elusive data of his alien environment . |
| 12 | [ On ] our hypothesis the ego instincts arise from the coming to life of inanimate matter and seek to restore the inanimate state . |
| 13 | But he insisted that there was no alternative if Hungary was to gain the confidence of the international credit institutions and seek to heal the economic crisis . |
| 14 | How can the right hon. Gentleman stand at the Dispatch Box and seek to justify the untrammelled entry of coal imports into Britain , which is flinging thousands of miners out of work and at the same time digging a hole for the economic morass in our balance of payments ? |
| 15 | As more and more material was uncovered , the interest of students of both Old and New Testaments had extended to take in increasingly large tracts of the surrounding fields , and to seek to locate the biblical material in that broader setting . |