Example sentences of "[verb] sought [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has sought to highlight the positive ethical and aesthetic implications of Victorian science as they appear in literature ( rather than looking for further ammunition for what she calls the sterile and artificial battle of literature against science ) . |
| 2 | The UN special envoy , Mr Benon Sevan , has sought to halt the fighting and install a temporary governing committee , but the Najibullah regime has collapsed so fast that his increasingly frantic efforts never had a chance . |
| 3 | The mother through her counsel has sought to support the decision of the justices except in so far as it is conceded that the prohibited steps order in relation to the two adults was wrong , and likewise although in the court below the guardian ad litem had reluctantly supported the interim care order , the guardian ad litem today seeks to uphold the justices ' decision . |
| 4 | This brief chapter has sought to describe the main features of the basic types of production systems — jobbing , batch and mass production . |
| 5 | In line with the general policy on benefits in kind , the Government has sought to improve the neutrality of the tax position between employees provided with company cars and those who are not . |
| 6 | On the one hand , the Conservative government has sought to improve the workings of the market for housing by deregulation . |
| 7 | As a relative newcomer , political sociology has made wider claims and has sought to extend the notions of power and politics beyond the confines traditionally set by political science . |
| 8 | The discussion of the methods by which company law has sought to legitimate the power conferred upon corporate managers and an assessment of their efficacy will be broken into parts to reflect these two strategies . |
| 9 | Within the limits of the data , it has sought to identify the trends affecting the economic circumstances of low-income households , looking within claimant households for information on how Black and white mothers cope with family poverty . |
| 10 | The Conservative government elected at the 1979 and two subsequent elections has sought to encourage the development of a system of private medical care alongside the NHS . |
| 11 | In such circumstances the state has sought to mitigate the consequences of recession on small firms although it seems to have acted more effectively when the existence of a larger company is threatened . |
| 12 | In such circumstances the state has sought to mitigate the consequences of recession on small firms although it seems to have acted more effectively when the existence of a larger company is threatened . |
| 13 | So it is futile to try to define the homosexual sensibility according to the standards of conventional sensibility : first because the latter has sought to exclude the former ; second because , in retaliation , the former has often worked to undermine the latter and , in the process , challenged the very nature of the aesthetic , fashioning in the process new and sometimes oppositional mutations of it . |
| 14 | While there has been a world recession to contend with on top of the problems the UK would otherwise have faced since 1979 , public choice theorists would not be surprised that the Conservative government has sought to minimize the level of reported unemployment . |
| 15 | The discussion so far has sought to trace the progressive involvement of central government in the shaping of the school curriculum and to point to certain other government initiatives which undeniably strengthened the centralist trend . |
| 16 | Right from the beginning , the CCI has sought to trace the development of form in the work of designers , not forgetting the role played by a number of major manufacturers . |
| 17 | Parliament 's role has not been executive , but supervisory — it has sought to subject the executive to certain limits and controls , to protect the liberties of the individual citizen against the arbitrary use of power , to focus the mind of the nation on the great issues of the day by the maintenance of a continuous dialogue or discussion , and by remaining at the centre of the stage to impose … ‘ manners of behaviour ’ on the whole political system . |
| 18 | They have turned towards an inner contact with Christ based upon faith which has sought to bypass the historical research that sought to determine , with an accuracy previous centuries could never manage , the nature of Jesus of Nazareth . |
| 19 | Since the signing of the 1979 peace treaty , the US has sought to keep the military assistance component of its large foreign aid programme to Egypt and Israel on roughly equal terms . |
| 20 | It has sought to avoid the narrow dogmatism of the latter , combining a radical analysis with democratic participatory teaching methods . |
| 21 | In the Bill , the Home Secretary has sought to divert the public 's attention from the powerful recommendations in the Woolf report . |
| 22 | It is notable that in recent years , the ‘ Tebbit doctrine ’ has sought to narrow the scope of monopoly and merger references to cases that raise clear issues of competition . |
| 23 | ‘ The impetus for change has been driven by the charities rather than the City , but the City recognised this and has sought to make the most of it . ’ |
| 24 | In particular , he has sought to make the desert bloom , damming its rivers and plundering its scant resources of water to create neat , green fields and , more recently , the harmonious , man-made landscapes of the golf course . |
| 25 | Very frequently judges sought to bring the parties to an amicable settlement ( which was more likely to be observed ) rather than to pass an outright sentence . |
| 26 | President Carter should have sought to spring the US hostages from Iran in 1980 as the only logical outcome of his life as a peanut farmer in Georgia or a president of the United States . |
| 27 | Despite these criticisms , recent approaches to decision making have sought to pursue the rational approach . |
| 28 | Mr Baker had sought to link the rise of the fascist Republican Party in Baden-Wurtemburg in Germany 's regional elections with the system of PR voting . |
| 29 | The Court had ruled in favour of an application by a Belgian village which had sought to block the dumping of waste from the Netherlands on its land . |
| 30 | Justin Lekhanya , chairman of the six-member Military Council , announced on Nov. 6 that the exiled King had been dethroned , on the grounds that while abroad he had sought to undermine the government , and had attached " unacceptable conditions " to his return home . |