Example sentences of "[pers pn] seek [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the absence of these things , I seek to defend the present service as the best achievable . |
| 2 | If we seek to examine the external world of people and objects in terms of our own experience of that world , the fact of time is bound , I think , to be an important consideration . |
| 3 | Undoubtedly a similar danger exists if we seek to implement the corporatist goal of community in the corporation . |
| 4 | Perhaps in the post-election ferment of thinking about where Scotland goes now it is even more important that we seek to discover the appropriate role for Christian Aid in that . |
| 5 | I hope that Opposition Members will accept in good faith the undertakings given by my right hon. and learned Friend and myself and that they will accept that we seek to find the best possible way forward to meet the important points about victimisation . |
| 6 | In the Indian Ocean basin they sought to rally the non-aligned states against existing blocs being activated or the composition and sphere , of responsibility of these blocs being broadened . |
| 7 | The objectives of PAR were rather too ambitious , for essentially they sought to review the major policies of government . |
| 8 | In short , theory can help practitioners to adopt a theoretical orientation to their task , whereby they seek to refer the particular techniques they use to more general principles , and , reciprocally , test out the validity of such principles against the observed actualities of classroom practice . |
| 9 | We see ( again , particularly in the public sector ) institutions collectively framing their own mission statements , as they seek to define the particular role they see themselves fulfilling in the national system of higher education . |
| 10 | The opinion evidence was not admissible as it sought to answer the very matter that was for the Special Commissioner 's decision , a question for which the witness was not qualified as an expert . |
| 11 | On one level , it sought to frame the public debate ( why only three options ? why not four or five ? ) in such a way as to create a consensus around his policy . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This Eliot had taken from his reading of anthropology , as would become clear from his later social writings , and he sought to preserve the physical and spiritual bonds of his culture in the city of London . |
| 14 | In explaining how he managed to escape active military service during the war by signing on for an officers ' programme , Mr Clinton apparently omitted to mention that he had already received his call-up notice when he sought to join the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps . |
| 15 | In short , he sought to restore the Holy Roman Empire of Germany , Burgundy and Italy . |
| 16 | As a practical clinician he sought to describe the normal and the pathological without resorting to either the abstractions of galenism or the incomprehensible mythological and numerological symbolism of contemporary alchemy . |
| 17 | Above all he sought to dismantle the traditional peasant commune . |
| 18 | The motive force behind all of Peter 's reforms was the greater glory of the Russian state , and to this end he sought to harness the entire human and material reserves of his extensive kingdom . |
| 19 | By eliminating all theological and metaphysical elements from his work , he sought to challenge the prevailing constitutional orthodoxy which was founded on the natural rights of the citizen and the inalienable sovereignty of the state . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | His argument is further weakened when he seeks to defend the very institution that does bring us Dynasty , Dallas and Blankety Blank ! |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Furthermore it seeks to highlight the central importance of localities and localism in Northern Ireland . |
| 25 | It seeks to explain the important role played by money in the domestic ( and international ) economy . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Could it be said that it benefits the land ( i.e. it seeks to keep the residential character of the area ) ? |
| 30 | 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 . |