Example sentences of "and sought [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 . |