Example sentences of "and seek [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ On ] our hypothesis the ego instincts arise from the coming to life of inanimate matter and seek to restore the inanimate state . |
| 2 | An Equal Opportunities Commission , set up by the 1975 Act , oversees the working of the Acts : it may conduct formal investigations , and seek to enforce the law by civil proceedings . |
| 3 | But he insisted that there was no alternative if Hungary was to gain the confidence of the international credit institutions and seek to heal the economic crisis . |
| 4 | This is because both agencies are fighting for a larger share of the available budget and seek to create a good impression by producing the most frightening scenario . |
| 5 | But in South Africa today , and surely for a good many years to come , there are also additional considerations that demand from a large company actions and policies that go beyond its immediate business interests and seek to ameliorate the excessive social and economic imbalances that have developed in our society . |
| 6 | How can the right hon. Gentleman stand at the Dispatch Box and seek to justify the untrammelled entry of coal imports into Britain , which is flinging thousands of miners out of work and at the same time digging a hole for the economic morass in our balance of payments ? |
| 7 | May we nurture the good that lies within us and seek to overcome the seeds of violence and hate . |
| 8 | Unlike their Western counterparts , who usually strive for individual expression and the creation of a new visual language , oriental textile artists are more content to reproduce the time-honoured designs of their ancestors and seek to express a collective rather than an individual view of their world . |
| 9 | This has stimulated an awareness of the very different ways that women support each other , work around issues of parenthood and career and seek to redress an art market that continues to marginalise them . |
| 10 | Missionaries who have lived with a cultural expression of the gospel adapted to their own context have to divest the message of that cultural adaptation and seek to introduce the gospel in a form which is culturally appropriate to the community in which they are seeking to communicate . |
| 11 | Or do they bide their time and seek to defuse the situation by negotiations via a mediator ? |
| 12 | In this process of self-creation social movements are the forces which contest an established system of historical action and seek to divert the development of society into a different channel . |