Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] seek [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there were indications last night that some Communist deputies may seek to complicate the vote , by not turning up in sufficient numbers , or to delay it , possibly by as much as three weeks , to allow their own party to re-group after its recent humiliations . |
| 2 | It is of course a fact of life that the bankers may seek to renegotiate the vendor 's finance arrangements , particularly if the purchase price will be a significant realisation for the vendor . |
| 3 | The ideological demand that communists should seek to improve the accommodation of the people was subordinate to the aspiration to house them in such a way as to make it easier to supervise them and mould them as the Party saw fit . |
| 4 | Finally , the investigators will seek to enhance the utility of the approach by eliciting the reactions of a group of interested scientists and policymakers to a range of different methods for presenting co-word findings . |
| 5 | The standard formulation of the proper objective of management in the economics literature is that managers should seek to maximise the value of the firm , that is , the value of the residual after all fixed claims , such as those of the providers of loan finance and of employees , have been met . |
| 6 | Although most investment managers will seek to run the portfolio on a discretionary basis , it is vital to be convinced that they will try to meet your particular needs for capital appreciation or income . |
| 7 | On all known form , campaigners , opinion-formers and politicians themselves will engage in polarising rhetoric rather than genuine debate , particularly since amendments by pro-life campaigners will seek to yoke the issue of abortion to the question of embryo experimentation . |
| 8 | It is through patient persuasive reasoning together with voluntary suffering that the satyāgrahi must seek to melt the heart of his opponent and open his eyes to the truth . |
| 9 | A united management means it is less likely that disaffected family members will seek to realise the value of their shareholdings ; their financial and political clout should improve as each of the families ceases attempts to undermine the other 's access to finance for expansion , and ; two separate distribution networks working together should mean the companies can gain additional contracts from non-competitive brand names . |
| 10 | Although individual students may seek to press the system to its limits , whether in securing credit for prior learning in the admissions process , or in pursuing a formal appeal against a felt injustice over assessment , or in taking advantage of such open learning arrangements as are available , the student body as a whole seems depressingly unconcerned about its academic rights . |
| 11 | Analyses of demand factors will seek to show the extent to which small firms are dependent upon the local economy , and what difficulties they may experience in selling beyond their immediate locality . |
| 12 | What follows is that Toyota , Nissan and the others will seek to eliminate the weaknesses in their overseas production . |
| 13 | The churches should seek to discover the community trends and local authority plans for the coming years . |
| 14 | Environmentally-conscious consumers should seek to boycott the use of plastics . |