Example sentences of "seeking [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you progress , the next facet of rallying is to give yourselves higher-level objectives , which include seeking to hit the ball in a more confined area . |
| 2 | The theoretical difference between the categories may well come down to a question of the burden of proof , though in practice a party seeking to uphold the validity of the restrictive covenant — usually the employer — has to make all the running . |
| 3 | These programmes also used modern approaches to teaching and learning — for example using classroom videos and pupil led classroom discussion and seeking to include the family more directly in smoking education . |
| 4 | The directive function : seeking to affect the behaviour of the addressee ( ‘ Please help me ! ’ , |
| 5 | Following the debates Bush appeared to step back from further character attacks on Clinton , a development which led to speculation that he had already privately accepted the inevitability of his defeat and was seeking to preserve a degree of presidential dignity . |
| 6 | On Oct. 7 three of the movement 's leaders , including the secretary-general , Abdelfatah Mourou , were briefly detained for issuing a communique accusing the Education Minister , Mohamed Charfi , of having belittled Islamic values and of seeking to reintroduce a policy of secularization . |
| 7 | In seeking to promote the realization and wholeness of human nature , we attempt to correct our early unsatisfactory experiences . |
| 8 | This is particularly critical at a time when the agency is seeking to implement a report prepared by a team of management consultants which emphasises the importance of ‘ seizing the challenge of change ’ in a deliberate bid to alter the direction of the organisation . |
| 9 | He had been provoked — and it is well to remember that he was then , and continues to this day to be , happily married to a beautiful and supportive wife — into seeking to continue the deception by a personal statement in the Commons in which he averred that he was innocent of the allegations and a wronged man . |
| 10 | DON HOWE started one of his busiest weeks by completing the £1 million signing of Ray Wegerle for Queen 's Park Rangers , seeking to borrow a goalkeeper for the club and , in between , helping out with England matters . |
| 11 | Once the party seeking to enforce the restraint has established that there is an interest meriting protection the next question is whether the restraint is reasonable between the parties . |
| 12 | It is submitted that this is sensible : if the party seeking to enforce the restraint were required to match the restraint exactly to the interest very few restraints , if any at all , would be found to be reasonable . |
| 13 | 10 Burden of proof Dealing first with the question of reasonableness as between the parties it is now accepted that the burden of proof falls on the party seeking to enforce the restraint . |
| 14 | Although originally the doctrine was thought to be restricted to cases of iniquity or wrong-doing on the part of the party seeking to enforce the obligation of confidence , it is now clear that this is not so . |
| 15 | Riche brought an action against the company seeking to enforce the contract . |
| 16 | A party seeking to enforce the clause which has been attacked as being an unreasonable restraint of trade will usually argue in the first place that the restriction as a whole is reasonable and secondly that any part which is unreasonable can be severed thereby leaving only the reasonable part which should be enforced . |
| 17 | On Dec. 2 police arrested a Sikh catering officer , Balwinder Singh Nigah , on charges of seeking to plant a bomb aboard an Air India flight bound for London on Dec. 1 . |
| 18 | The interviewer is seeking to interview a sample of housewives on an estate about , let us say , the work-day pattern of wives who work only within the home . |
| 19 | One can not be certain , in such circumstances , that a court of law would meekly accept a general return to a writ in the face of clear knowledge that the House was , in effect , seeking to usurp the role of Parliament itself . |
| 20 | The WZB is seeking to increase the number of women researchers on its staff . |
| 21 | Those of us who have criticised the Government 's and western nations ' lack of urgency in providing appropriate assistance to the Soviet Union will also welcome the new steps and the energy that is being shown in this area If , as the Prime Minister rightly says , the protection of non-proliferation is the absolute key to world peace , why are the Government seeking to increase the number of nuclear warheads that are carried on Trident , when they have the option of keeping the number the same , at a time when the rest of the world is decreasing them ? |
| 22 | I said that we would be taking stock , and I meant precisely that — taking stock on the basis of an increased vote in Scotland , on the basis of more Members of Parliament for Scotland and on ways of seeking to increase the strength of the Union . |
| 23 | Perhaps it is seeking to increase the audience , or perhaps it was lead astray for a while by the fact that , during the Conservative leadership contest , the exciting politics at Westminster were not in the Chamber . |
| 24 | Employees are seeking to counteract the tedium and monotony of the highly specialised work patterns in mass-production by pressing for more integrated roles , requiring a wider range of skills and operations . |
| 25 | ii ) by seeking to exclude the duration provision ( see point 2 below ) . |
| 26 | A party seeking to establish a course of dealing must show that there has been regular trading between the parties , and the dealing must have been consistent . |
| 27 | I am also seeking to establish a Crusader class with nonchurch young folk in mind , a summer mission for one week , a weekend away in Sussex camping with young folk from various churches and a working holiday in Leicester with Hildenborough Trust . |
| 28 | The aspects of fundamental importance to an entrepreneur when seeking to establish a business in leasehold premises are the amount of rent payable for the premises , the length of the lease and security of tenure . |
| 29 | Four Eritrean groupings opposed to the Eritrean People 's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) transitional government in Asmara were reported on Sept. 28 to have formed the Eritrean National Pact Alliance ( ENPA ) , accusing the Front of seeking to establish a dictatorship . |
| 30 | Further , it is the current practice of AIB , at any rate , to provide more detailed factual information to representatives of those seeking to establish a claim on condition that the same information is made available to all other parties to the action including , of course , the potential defendants . |