Example sentences of "[vb mod] seek [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although individual students may seek to press the system to its limits , whether in securing credit for prior learning in the admissions process , or in pursuing a formal appeal against a felt injustice over assessment , or in taking advantage of such open learning arrangements as are available , the student body as a whole seems depressingly unconcerned about its academic rights . |
| 2 | It is perhaps useful here to bear in mind the distinction often made in the study of pressure groups between ‘ interest ’ groups and ‘ cause ’ groups , though in the tactical struggle for influence each may seek to co-opt the support of the other . |
| 3 | In other words , A may seek to support the validity of his agreement with C by reliance either on executory or on executed consideration . |
| 4 | It is of course a fact of life that the bankers may seek to renegotiate the vendor 's finance arrangements , particularly if the purchase price will be a significant realisation for the vendor . |
| 5 | Although the state might operate as an honest broker between different sections of the ruling class and may seek to give the appearance of neutrality to mystify its class nature and role , it will never be neutral as between the general interests of the bourgeoisie and the proletariat . |
| 6 | The seller may seek to make the buyer liable to indemnify him or her in perpetuity , thereby placing the buyer in the same invidious position of the original lessee , who remains liable for the whole of the term of the lease to whomever it may have passed . |
| 7 | The person conducting the interview may seek to produce the video recording as evidence that statements were made by the child which support a diagnosis of sexual abuse . |
| 8 | However , there were indications last night that some Communist deputies may seek to complicate the vote , by not turning up in sufficient numbers , or to delay it , possibly by as much as three weeks , to allow their own party to re-group after its recent humiliations . |
| 9 | At the end of it all , the journalists are free to report what they have been told without question , they may seek to check the information they have been given with other sources or use it as background on a later occasion . |
| 10 | Presumably our recruiters will try to convey this , but written adverts , brochures and other media should seek to emphasise the benefits of which the following is a sample : |
| 11 | The standard formulation of the proper objective of management in the economics literature is that managers should seek to maximise the value of the firm , that is , the value of the residual after all fixed claims , such as those of the providers of loan finance and of employees , have been met . |
| 12 | Where ill-health is concerned , the counsellor should seek to defend the interests of the individual , and not be subservient to the wishes and dictates of any other authority . |
| 13 | The ideological demand that communists should seek to improve the accommodation of the people was subordinate to the aspiration to house them in such a way as to make it easier to supervise them and mould them as the Party saw fit . |
| 14 | But he was not able to give any more specific guidance to the jury on how they should seek to compare the harm suffered by Donovan as a result of the libel with that suffered by those claiming damages in personal injury cases . |
| 15 | This introduced important changes : it removed the requirement that the Court should seek to return the parties to the financial position which they would have been in had their marriage not broken down ; it required the Court to give ‘ first consideration ’ to the welfare of any child of the family ; and it contained a number of provisions designed , in appropriate cases , to emphasise the importance of the parties seeking to become self-sufficient after divorce . |
| 16 | There was broad agreement that the NAM should seek to represent the interests of countries of the South , especially within the UN . |
| 17 | On the other hand , the vendor should seek to restrict the number of exemptions . |
| 18 | The tenant 's adviser should seek to restrict the power to the making of reasonable regulations . |
| 19 | The distinction between the two concepts , the commission of a crime and the production of a literary work , is a vital one , for although it is clearly desirable to deter crimes , it is not transparently obvious that we should seek to deter the production of literary works , whatever we may think of their intrinsic merits . |
| 20 | Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone , LC , said that the question was whether a parental veto came within the band of possible reasonable decisions and not whether it was right or mistaken and that there was a band of decisions within which the court should seek to replace the individual 's judgment with his own . |
| 21 | Environmentally-conscious consumers should seek to boycott the use of plastics . |
| 22 | The master expected his servant to increase his own personal wealth , a situation that is exactly analogous with the generally accepted microeconomic concept that management should seek to maximize the wealth of their ordinary ( equity ) shareholders . |
| 23 | The counsellor should seek to question the assumptions made about elderly withdrawal by both the older individuals and their carers . |
| 24 | If it seems clear that the insured is in breach of the full value declaration we should seek to avoid the policy and return the premium . |
| 25 | 6.3 In general terms , training should seek to remove the notion of fault from the victim of violence . |
| 26 | The churches should seek to discover the community trends and local authority plans for the coming years . |
| 27 | Well , where I currently am is is saying that we should seek to revue the Commission 's overall boundaries with a view to us taking on some extra work , and that meanwhile we should suspend further recruitment . |
| 28 | If it is unnecessarily bureaucratic the engineer should seek to have the systems modified so that they contribute more cost effectively to improved quality . |
| 29 | It should be a product of dialogue and partnership with the school and should seek to develop the service as a whole . |
| 30 | When governments attempt to control the money supply , therefore , they must seek to control the size of bank deposits and thereby control the amount of bank lending and hence total expenditure in the economy ( aggregate demand ) . |