Example sentences of "seek [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As regards restoration , just as we would not dream of stripping out the original interior of the Blackfriar , by the same token we would not seek to preserve a Thirties estate pub which had long since ceased to address the needs of the community it was built to serve . |
| 2 | These development strategies should seek to preserve an acceptable balance of the various priorities , now in my position statement I set out the role and general advantages of new settlements as part of a development strategy in satisfying housing and employment needs of an area . |
| 3 | The Republic of Russia will probably seek to remain a nuclear state , but there is a reasonable prospect that the other three republics — Kazakhstan , Byelorussia and Ukraine — will be prepared to accept non-nuclear status . |
| 4 | Subject bibliographies are therefore the raw materials of the trade of stock revision , and librarians working on stock revision should seek to acquire a working knowledge of their existence and contents in the same way that a reference librarian is familiar with the major reference tools in the collection . |
| 5 | Should I seek to impose a legal limit on daily TV viewing , even supposing that it were enforceable ? |
| 6 | It is this we must grasp if we are to challenge those who would seek to impose a tight curriculum upon all children . |
| 7 | Experts could seek to exclude the implied duty of skill and care in individual references , but it is not attractive . |
| 8 | An appointing authority could seek to exclude the implied term by express words , but that would not be an attractive course : appointing authorities have reputations to keep . |
| 9 | The Secretaries of State will therefore seek to establish a broad agreement with their partners in the educational service on a framework for the curriculum , and in particular on whether , because there are aims common to all schools and to all pupils at certain stages , there should be a ‘ core ’ or ‘ protected ’ part . |
| 10 | Obviously entrepreneurs will seek to pay the cheapest possible rent in order to minimize costs ; moreover , they will seek to establish a fixed rent for the duration of the lease , so that the money paid in rent can easily be forecast when planning the business . |
| 11 | However , it may form the basis of a new approach to problems in which lawyers and advisers will not seek to establish the legal nature of the problem and then find the relevant law , but will rather seek to establish the nature of the problem and then contemplate whether any part of the law might be relevant . |
| 12 | We will seek to reverse the unacceptable decline in Britain 's merchant navy and encourage the greater use of British-owned and crewed vessels , adding to Britain 's security and reducing the cost to our balance of payments . |
| 13 | Unlike ITV , Channel Four would not seek to serve the vast audience but would have to satisfy parts of the audience at various times during the week . |
| 14 | Similarly , he argued , Britain should seek to create a Social Charter of its own liking , rather than merely oppose the adoption of any social charter at all . |
| 15 | The initiative will seek to identify the best examples of environmental management to be used for setting a benchmark for the future . |
| 16 | Drawing on this conceptual framework , the research would seek to identify the key issues in policy towards the taxation of energy , including those where significant spillovers would arise from the policy decisions of individual member states ( e.g. effects on intra-EC competition , and cross frontier environmental impacts ) and those where important , but largely domestic , considerations are involved ( e.g. ‘ efficient ’ commodity taxation , revenue and distributional effects ) . |
| 17 | The project will therefore seek to identify the main implications of the trend towards the Regulatory State and is intended to be the first step towards a major research programme investigating the potentials and problems of regulation in practice across the whole spectrum of what we used to describe as the Welfare State . |
| 18 | He had earlier explained that the PSL-S would be a national , centrist party based on Christian values , rather than exclusively peasant in orientation ; and that it would seek to combine the historical legacy of the peasant movement with the ethos of Solidarity . |
| 19 | They should seek to organise the maximum number of people at local level to bring pressure to bear on local authorities , on Stormont , but particularly on Westminster . |
| 20 | At the next election , he will seek to enhance the so-called sovereignty of Parliament . |
| 21 | Alternatively they can seek to avoid the protective wall by setting up subsidiaries and branches within the Community . |
| 22 | From enrolment onwards the student can seek to renegotiate the registered programme . |
| 23 | They will seek to put the innocent party , so far as possible , in the position he would have been in had the contract been performed . |
| 24 | The studies examined did not seek to determine the relative importance of age and parity to development of maternity related ailments . |
| 25 | A conclusion might therefore be that management should seek to harness the informal organisation to operate to the benefit of the formal organisation . |
| 26 | The counsellor should seek to assess the various factors which might be contributing to the ill-health of the older individual . |
| 27 | Unless such differences are taken into account , estimates of abatement costs will be inaccurate and governments may seek to control the wrong fuels . |
| 28 | Ministers may try to make a statement ( they secure this every Thursday with the weekly business statement ) ; the Opposition may seek to have a Private Notice Question ; the Government prefer to have a debate on a Government motion or bill ; the Opposition would like to have an Opposition Day when it opens the debate ; and backbenchers seek to get in with points of order and applications for emergency debates . |
| 29 | The taxpayer may seek to raise a robust argument based on fundamental Schedule E rules that the benefit should be limited to the amount which the taxpayer could obtain on a sale of the rights ( Tennant v Smith ( 1892 ) 3 TC 158 , Abbott v Philbin ( 1960 ) 39 TC 82 and Heaton v Bell ( 1969 ) 46 TC 11 ) . |
| 30 | Potential lenders will seek to influence the financial structure of the project to minimize their risk or to maximize their return . |