Example sentences of "may 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 . |