Example sentences of "[vb past] sought [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They saw themselves as acting legitimately in the context both of custom and of paternalist legislation of the Tudor and Stuart era which had sought to control the marketing of corn , flour and bread in the interests of the poor consumer . |
| 5 | Mahmood 's rival candidacy for the Walton seat had angered the Labour Party leadership , which had sought to eliminate the unofficial left-wing Labour supporters ' group Militant Tendency with which she was associated . |
| 6 | The initial result was that the Conservatives had sought to counter the collectivist strategy of progressivism with a collectivism of their own , while individualist arguments had been relegated to the margins of Conservative politics . |
| 7 | The workshop sessions at Highlander which had sought to clarify the types of information which were required led to the production of a coding sheet which research workers could fill in with the individual details , thereby ensuring both comprehensive coverage , and compatibility between researchers . |
| 8 | It is sometimes suggested that the mystical flowering of the fourteenth century was a reaction against the scientific and scholastic enthusiasms of the thirteenth century , which had sought to reinterpret the Christian experience in terms of the rationalistic philosophy of Aristotle . |
| 9 | This reversal of earlier antislavery history in which London-based committees had sought to mobilise the provinces from their self-anointed positions of leadership was a sign that an aroused antislavery public expected its demands to override tendencies to parliamentary compromise and to render manoeuvre within virtually irrelevant . |
| 10 | Meanwhile Somerset had sought to stabilize the frontier by establishing British immigrants , the 1820 settlers , on the west bank of the Fish . |
| 11 | Because of the apprehension of a breach of the peace on the part of the inspector , it was held , there arose a duty on him to prevent a breach of the peace , and because the appellant had sought to hold the meeting in defiance of his instructions , she was guilty of obstructing him in the execution of his duty . |
| 12 | In March a proposal at the Commissions 's 46th session [ see p. 37888 ] which had sought to limit the powers of the Commission 's special envoys ( rapporteurs ) , was deferred to the 47th session , scheduled for February 1991 . |
| 13 | Welcoming the company 's plans , DBRW chairman Glyn Davies said that for many years the Development Board had sought to help the company to re-locate and expand while staying in Llanfyllin . |
| 14 | The departure of Richardson represented a considerable victory for the opposition which , for the past month , had sought to embarrass the government over the affair . |
| 15 | It is well established that a public law decision by a local authority may be open to challenge by way of defence or counterclaim to an action brought by the local authority in the High Court or the county court , notwithstanding the fact that if the defendant had sought to begin the proceedings he would have had to do so by way of judicial review : see Wandsworth London Council v. Winder [ 1985 ] A.C. 461 . |
| 16 | On Jan. 15 , Czechoslovak officials claimed that the Soviet Finance MInister , Valentin Pavlov had sought to postpone the Prague meeting in an effort to slow down the pace of reform within COMECON . |
| 17 | The embassy , suspecting infiltration of agents provocateurs from the Cuban security forces , had sought to isolate the seven from the rest . |
| 18 | Over long years , he had sought to rebuild the nuclear programme , as he had been charged to by the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council . |
| 19 | In British Railways Board v Pickin [ 1974 ] AC 765 , the plaintiff had sought to challenge the validity of a provision of a private Act of Parliament on the ground that its promoter had fraudulently withheld certain information from the relevant House of Commons committee , thus securing its passage . |
| 20 | Opposition deputies had sought to have the minimum voting age lowered to 18 and all of them left the chamber in protest prior to the vote . |
| 21 | It had also been exploited by the re-election campaign team of President Bush , which had sought to portray the Democrat majority in Congress as responsible for sabotaging the Republican administration 's domestic policy initiatives . |
| 22 | President Bush on July 2 vetoed the so-called " motor-voter " bill , a piece of legislation which had sought to reform the voter-registration process on a national basis . |
| 23 | In addition , the Commission revealed that Macierewicz had sought to pressure the KPN leadership with information about its chair , Leszek Moczulski , linking this with an attempt to prevent the Olszewski government 's fall . |
| 24 | The union had sought to frustrate the lock-out by the masters of its members by engaging itself in co-operative production . |