Example sentences of "seek [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experts could seek to exclude the implied duty of skill and care in individual references , but it is not attractive . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The initiative will seek to identify the best examples of environmental management to be used for setting a benchmark for the future . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At the next election , he will seek to enhance the so-called sovereignty of Parliament . |
| 12 | Alternatively they can seek to avoid the protective wall by setting up subsidiaries and branches within the Community . |
| 13 | From enrolment onwards the student can seek to renegotiate the registered programme . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The studies examined did not seek to determine the relative importance of age and parity to development of maternity related ailments . |
| 16 | A conclusion might therefore be that management should seek to harness the informal organisation to operate to the benefit of the formal organisation . |
| 17 | The counsellor should seek to assess the various factors which might be contributing to the ill-health of the older individual . |
| 18 | Unless such differences are taken into account , estimates of abatement costs will be inaccurate and governments may seek to control the wrong fuels . |
| 19 | Potential lenders will seek to influence the financial structure of the project to minimize their risk or to maximize their return . |
| 20 | However , it remains unclear how far the Soviet leadership may seek to influence the internal composition of the post-settlement Afghan regime in order to safeguard the minimal security and strategic needs of the USSR which , Moscow asserts , originally compelled the intervention of Soviet troops in Afghanistan . |
| 21 | ‘ If every dog is marked at birth and registered , the kind of person who wants to throw out a dog onto a motorway will seek to remove the identifying mark — it does n't take a moment with a Stanley knife to remove an ear tattoo , or to use a drop of acid to burn off a brand . |
| 22 | The Plan does not seek to reiterate the considerable road safety input to the bulk of the day-to-day work associated with the statutory and other responsibilities of the Council and Chief Constable . |
| 23 | Publishers will need deliberately to set aside a proportion of ‘ play money ’ , which they can afford to lose , but on which they will seek to recuperate the large returns that go with true risk investment . |
| 24 | Where necessary , they should also seek to improve the existing communication systems . |
| 25 | DORCISS will seek to achieve the above objectives by promoting the exchange of information and experience between members through an annual conference and by means of at least two management development workshops per year . |
| 26 | If there is no GATT settlement , during our presidency we shall seek to achieve the necessary reform of the common agricultural policy . |
| 27 | What is most needed is a clear explanation of the particular point on which evidence is sought ; the model form includes requests for summaries of the parties ' positions and suggests that relevant documentation ( court orders , pleadings ) might be attached ; but these should be restricted to matters illuminating the particular request for evidence and should not seek to rehearse the whole case . |
| 28 | It seems that the Secretary of State will seek to safeguard the existing pension rights of those who work in the subsidiaries by looking closely at the buy-out proposals and that he will not favour any buy-out proposal which does not give some future security of pension rights to the workers who will be affected . |
| 29 | Last month President Lee Teng-hui announced that Taiwan would seek to rejoin the United Nations , as well as pushing for membership of the GATT . |