Example sentences of "seeks [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Table 6 seeks to estimate the number of jobs generated by export activity in different manufacturing industries . |
| 2 | ‘ I understand that the Lord Dacre entertains within this hold the man Edward Balliol , who seeks to usurp the throne of our liege-lord David . |
| 3 | In those terms LCH seeks to preserve the neutrality of its position . |
| 4 | Covering an area of 20,000 sq km within a state-owned forest reserve , the five-year project seeks to preserve the area 's rich tropical rainforests , which are under threat from an expanding local population . |
| 5 | Thus homoeopathy seeks to restore the organism to harmony and balance . |
| 6 | Non-cooperation , as Gandhi understands it , does not always have to be an act of love in the same way as satyāgraha has to be , but it is in act of love and consequently a branch of satyāgraha when it seeks to promote the good of a wrongdoer . |
| 7 | With the axe soon to fall on the Unlisted Securities Market , CISCO seeks to promote the importance of the smaller public company . |
| 8 | The course has a strong practical bias , and seeks to emphasise the value of transferable skills and the need to see ‘ theatre ’ as relevant and topical in its application to social and community contexts . |
| 9 | Section 5 of the Business Names Act 1985 provides that where a person fails to comply with the requirement set out in s. 5 and thereafter seeks to enforce a business contract with a party in default by means of a court action , ( a ) if the person in default can establish that he or she has a claim against the proprietor , which due to the proprietor 's failure to comply with s. 5 he or she has been unable to pursue , or ( b ) if a breach by the proprietor of s. 5 has caused the person in default some financial loss , the proprietor 's claim shall be dismissed , unless it is ‘ just and equitable ’ that the proprietor should be allowed to continue the action . |
| 10 | The applicant seeks to uphold the judgment of the Divisional Court on two quite different grounds . |
| 11 | However , if the counsellor seeks to support the position of the older person , care has to be taken over how the imbalance of power is handled . |
| 12 | One who would speak your name and seeks to know the woman in you ! |
| 13 | The manager who seeks to increase the nurse 's embarrassment or difficulties is of little help . |
| 14 | It has already been noted that TNC seeks to increase the accountability of individual teachers and schools to parents . |
| 15 | While the new narrative is based in part on a broader concept of realism , it also seeks to increase the expressiveness of prose by representing reality in a non-mimetic manner , encapsulating it in the way that poetry has traditionally done . |
| 16 | Scotland 's transport minister , Lord James Douglas-Hamilton , said : ‘ Both of these major projects will form part of the Government 's private finance initiative which seeks to increase the use of the resources of the private sector in key infrastructure projects . ’ |
| 17 | In the West , the notion of freedom seeks to increase the potential for action in the outer world while keeping the inner state as constant , and rational , as possible . |
| 18 | This irresolution confronts the norms by which the morality structure seeks to contain the play . |
| 19 | The sonnet which apparently seeks to contain the truth of the youth 's beauty so as to gain power and control over it , exposes that it destroys and banishes the youth 's beauty . |
| 20 | It seeks to provide a forum in which ideas , principles and the understanding of monastic worship can be shared particularly by those responsible for the music of a community . |
| 21 | The emergence of this question ( which I shall return to in subsequent chapters ) shows how an enquiry which seeks to provide a solution to one problem generates issues which , if taken up , can lead to a reconsideration of the problem . |
| 22 | This project seeks to establish a baseline from which evolution of a truly European political system can be tracked over the coming centuries of political development . |
| 23 | Although it may be advantageous for specific purposes to examine individual pebbles , under most circumstances the sedimentologist seeks to establish the character of an entire deposit , not simply the coarser fractions . |
| 24 | As we have seen , in taking the philosophical approach which he does , it is not clear precisely how , having established the existence of a sovereign office of legislature , Oakeshott seeks to establish the rule of law qualification on the exercise of this power . |
| 25 | Compensation is calculated to a complex formula which includes a basic award related to gross earnings and length of service and a compensatory award which seeks to meet the employee 's actual and future losses arising as a consequence of the dismissal . |
| 26 | Science seeks to discover the operation of general laws which , by their nature , always manifest themselves in certain situations . |
| 27 | Instead of viewing his task as that of a missionary to a " primitive community " , Hoggart seeks to encourage the development of what is " already there " . |
| 28 | ‘ The festival seeks to encourage the development of environmental common sense and recreational opportunities as well as economic prosperity , ’ said assistant director Matthew Davies . |
| 29 | Firstly I would like to state that this article in no way seeks to encourage the smoking or eating of cannabis , or of any substance containing the active ingredients TetraHydroCannabinols . |
| 30 | Applying each question in turn to the words of the statute the court seeks to find the meaning of the words in the statute . |