Example sentences of "sought [verb] these " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Convention , partly drawing on United Kingdom bilateral conventions , sought to harmonise these different concepts by providing a procedural device acceptable to all systems . |
| 2 | The Statutory Instruments Act 1946 sought to regularise these procedures and to ensure that the House had an opportunity of scrutinising such legislation . |
| 3 | Falteringly , I sought to express these misgivings in my conclusions to a number of papers , conclusions that certainly brought no joy to my more optimistic colleagues in an emerging human ethology rooted firmly in the objective analysis of behaviour sequences and components . |
| 4 | The Board sought to have these claims struck out as frivolous , vexatious and an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 5 | It would have been all too easy for the residents ' views to weigh lightly compared to the supposedly more objective professional assessments but , avoiding this pitfall , the author looked for ways of tapping the experiences of the residents themselves and sought to complement these with staff assessments of social and psychiatric functioning . |
| 6 | By its example , and also by its preaching , the church sought to impress these ideas on the laity , including the secular aristocracy . |
| 7 | But those scientists who sought to reconstruct these links could do so without worrying very much about how populations of individual animals adapted to the challenges posed by an ever-changing environment . |