Example sentences of "[be] seek [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the power that is called God is beyond definition ; it is , as is stated of Brahman , ‘ neti , neti , — not this , not this ’ , and in our attempts to define it we are seeking to describe the indescribable . |
| 2 | ‘ The administrators are seeking to use the statutory procedure to get information which the company , if solvent , would not have been able to obtain before deciding whether or not to pursue the proceedings against B.C.C.I. |
| 3 | He says : ‘ The flat hand-out is appropriate if you are seeking to mobilise the maximum numbers to vote . ’ |
| 4 | A small number of European and UK distributors and Value Added Resellers ( who offer product support and technical back-up ) are seeking to help the smaller American companies break into the UK market . |
| 5 | Officially these scientists are working on long-range weather predictions ; in fact , though , they are seeking to prove the cosmic-ice theory once and for all . |
| 6 | Further evidence of the borrower 's management ability , integrity and character will also be sought to conclude the wide scope of lending analysis . |
| 7 | External funding would be sought to recapitalize the Treasury-owned Banco Nazionale del Lavoro whose subsidiary Efibanca would be sold , and some loss-making industrial sectors would be restructured before privatization . |
| 8 | There is however now some evidence that Select Committees would like to interest themselves in the Committee system and may be seeking to erode the present convention . |
| 9 | In this chapter , I would like to examine the relevance of these guidelines for the direction in which we should be seeking to reform the basic economic institutions of the U K economy . |
| 10 | It would be naive for anyone to suggest that politicians in should not be seeking to gain the maximum advantage from the European Community . |
| 11 | Simmonds also said that World Bank help was being sought to aid the troubled state-owned sugar industry . |
| 12 | In general , these early feminists accepted the broad contours of the family : women were seeking to enter the public domain without recognising the implications of the private domain for this process . |
| 13 | Zuckerman is seeking to deny the traditional connection between illness and psychic division which is reaffirmed in the novel as a whole , and which is also reaffirmed in The Facts , and at the same time to deny that there is a traditional belief in division or multiplicity , a long-standing sense of selfhood as a chimera . |
| 14 | Clwyd Health Authority is seeking to demolish the former War Memorial Hospital in Wrexham and to get planning permission for a supermarket on the site . |
| 15 | The interim award was won by Bishopsgate Investment Management , which ran the Mirror Group scheme and is seeking to recover the missing millions . |
| 16 | And I think that 's what underpins the advice in Planning Policy Guidance note number three which is seeking to use the new settlement as a mechanism for improving the n the er the landscape . |
| 17 | Miss Boothroyd is seeking to become the first woman speaker . |
| 18 | Restrictions ( Clause 21 ) will commonly be sought in relation to four specific matters : ( 1 ) the nature of the work which it sought to prevent the outgoing partner from undertaking ; ( 2 ) the persons for whom it is sought to prevent the outgoing partner acting ; ( 3 ) the area over which the restrictions are to operate ; and ( 4 ) the solicitation of clients of the firm , whether directly by personal contact or indirectly by advertising . |
| 19 | For the second approach , two things were significant : that a major change in British industry ( the fact that it was experiencing increasing competitive difficuIties ) was in turn being reflected in geographical changes , and that these geographical changes ( for instance , the decentralization in an effort to cut costs ) were themselves one way in which British industry was seeking to combat the growing pressures upon it . |
| 20 | The Iranian Oil Ministry was reported in late October to have adopted an aggressive policy on crude oil production and prices after rejecting a 3,200,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) quota which the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) had sought to impose on Iran at its meeting in September [ see p. 39120 ] ; the Middle East Economic Digest on Oct. 30 quoted the Oil Minister , Gholamreza Agazadeh , as saying that Iranian output during October would average 3,800,000 bpd , but as denying that Iran was seeking to destabilize the international market . |
| 21 | He was seeking to develop the widest possible range of courses , so that each person ‘ could reach his potential in academic , professional and vocational work ’ ( which he saw as ‘ not separate ’ ) in such a way that changes of direction would be possible at many points . |
| 22 | To the cynical and not so cynical , it seemed clear that Britain was seeking to secure the best of two worlds : to take advantage of the market opportunities for its own industrial goods that a free trade area would provide , while still retaining its special economic arrangements with the Commonwealth , especially its cheap food policy . |
| 23 | Despite few policy differences between the two major parties , the PNM exploited widespread fears that in agreeing to the temporary residence of 100 Haitian refugees , Robinson was seeking to change the racial mix in a country where race relations had become a major political and social issue . |
| 24 | By Aug. 13 a UNHCR representative was seeking to contact the Bosnian Serb military leadership to obtain the lifting of a siege on four predominantly Croat towns — Prijedor , Sanski-most , Bosanka-Krupa and Bosanki-Petrovac — in north-west Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 25 | In Laker 's case the minister was seeking to require the Civil Aviation Authority to follow his policy but he chose a way of doing this which the Court of Appeal considered not to be within his powers . |
| 26 | Permission was sought to use the new bingo machine at meetings of the club and this was granted . |