Example sentences of "seek [to-vb] the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | At the next election , he will seek to enhance the so-called sovereignty of Parliament . |
| 9 | Alternatively they can seek to avoid the protective wall by setting up subsidiaries and branches within the Community . |
| 10 | From enrolment onwards the student can seek to renegotiate the registered programme . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The studies examined did not seek to determine the relative importance of age and parity to development of maternity related ailments . |
| 13 | A conclusion might therefore be that management should seek to harness the informal organisation to operate to the benefit of the formal organisation . |
| 14 | Potential lenders will seek to influence the financial structure of the project to minimize their risk or to maximize their return . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Where necessary , they should also seek to improve the existing communication systems . |
| 19 | If there is no GATT settlement , during our presidency we shall seek to achieve the necessary reform of the common agricultural policy . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |