Example sentences of "seeks [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This project seeks to estimate the key parameters of purchasing behaviour for each of the four major EC countries ( France , West Germany , Italy and UK ) . |
| 2 | The new instrument seeks to skin the same cat but in a slightly different way . |
| 3 | Total history seeks to reconstitute the overall form of a society according to some fundamental principle , law , or form , be it metaphysical or material , while general history despite its name is by no means concerned to produce a general theory of history , nor even a cohesive or comprehensive view , but rather to conduct a historical investigation according to particular problems , opening up a field ‘ in which one could describe the singularity of practices , the play of their relations ’ . |
| 4 | As well as planning transport and development together , the Plan seeks to conserve the best of our towns and countryside . |
| 5 | Discussing the counselling process , McEvoy ( 1988 ) describes counselling as ‘ an enabling interaction between two people which seeks to support the weaker person as a responsible human being ’ . |
| 6 | Billed as ‘ a modern Jacobean tragi-comedy ’ , it seeks to graft the sickening thrills and sickened satire of seventeenth-century revenge plays onto a contemporary drama of cruelty and decadence . |
| 7 | To help redress this imbalance , this chapter seeks to evaluate the MDC's policy and practice and will complement Colenutt 's contribution on London in this volume . |
| 8 | Furthermore it seeks to highlight the central importance of localities and localism in Northern Ireland . |
| 9 | In the visual arts , the exhibition seeks to codify the classicising social realism of Nazi-approved compositions , contrasting images by Brekker and his associates with prints by German Expressionists . |
| 10 | The hon. Gentleman is wrong if he seeks to characterise the Scottish budget for next year as somehow lower than the spending increases for other Departments . |
| 11 | The government 's Job Training Programme seeks to tackle the latter . |
| 12 | While the earlier research concentrated on the impact of local external resources on innovation within such firms ( eg labour supply industrial material linkages ) , the current work seeks to explore the internal impact of variable entrepreneurship on small firm innovation , and the subsequent ramification on regional economic growth . |
| 13 | It seeks to explore the further development of such techniques in the Industrial Relations field and suggests some guidelines to be borne in mind when considering a potential application . |
| 14 | Through examination of the denial of the title ‘ real law ’ to family law this paper seeks to explore the theoretical positions which inform such criticisms . |
| 15 | ‘ The conventional myth seeks to depict the battle-scarred anthropologist as a lone figure wandering into a village , settling in and ‘ picking up the language ’ in a couple of months ; at the most , we may find references to translators being dispensed with after a few weeks . |
| 16 | The study seeks to identify the main constraining factors operating in each country , and to see to what extent these factors , and the ‘ mix ’ in which they seem to operate , vary from one country to another . |
| 17 | by deliberation : the organisation ‘ seeks to reinforce the formal structure by more formal structures ’ . |
| 18 | Robyn has a vivid mental image of the girl before her , now so pleasantly and comfortably dressed , sheathed in latex and nylon , the full fetishistic ensemble of brassiere , knickers , suspender belt and stockings with which the lingerie industry seeks to truss the female body , and having to parade at some fashion show in front of leering men and hardfaced women from department stores . |
| 19 | It is a movement that seeks to put the supernatural back into Christianity , saying God is supernatural , and so essentially Christianity is a supernatural religion . |
| 20 | At times it is even possible to lay out for examination the intense post-liminal rites and ceremonies of reincorporation required by the police institution as it seeks to draw the marginal mover back into the fold . |
| 21 | Thus criminal law seeks to determine the illegitimate modes of the acquisition of property and therefore is , in part , an integral part of the law of property . |
| 22 | Much will depend on how it seeks to solve the long-running debate about merging income tax and the national insurance system ; whether benefits , including pensions , are to be universal or selective ; and , if selective , how the state is to deal with obligations to people who have been contributing for many years to what they were told was national insurance . |
| 23 | Could it be said that it benefits the land ( i.e. it seeks to keep the residential character of the area ) ? |
| 24 | What of those countries with legislation which seeks to protect the older employee ? |
| 25 | This project seeks to assess the social and economic effects of recent smallholder tea and tobacco programmes in the Nyanza Province of western Kenya . |
| 26 | That trend will continue : no mainstream political party seeks to raise the basic pension . |
| 27 | It also seeks to measure the distributional implications of demographic changes . |
| 28 | Instead he seeks to expound the agnostic attitude , which refuses to consider concepts or ideas about God — however inspiring and beneficial — in place of the ineffable reality of God himself and tries to interpret traditional Christian beliefs and morality in the light of this mystical discipline . |
| 29 | My Bill also seeks to right the serious and indefensible wrong brought about by the abolition of free eye and dental tests ; and free prescriptions would be available to all over the age of 60 . |
| 30 | It seeks to balance the greater play of market forces and a new-found freedom for business with an element of social protection and participation for labour . |