Example sentences of "seek [to-vb] that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a respondent 's notice dated 21 January 1992 the foster mother sought to contend that the judge 's grant of leave under section 10(9) of the Act of 1989 should be affirmed on the grounds that if the Court of Appeal accepted the local authority 's test for the grant of leave to apply under section 10(9) the evidence justified the judge 's order . |
| 2 | It is quite impossible to say that Woolwich paid to close a transaction since it protested that it was not liable and it immediately sought to establish that the regulations were void . |
| 3 | The mother sought to establish that the father had ‘ subsequently acquiesced ’ in the removal of the children by her to England and their retention in England . |
| 4 | When reviewing the completed project the auditor will usually seek to establish that the project was consistent with the company 's strategy |
| 5 | Instead , the buyer should seek to ensure that the consideration reflects the higher risk to the buyer and the terms which the seller wants for completing the disposal . |
| 6 | Will he seek to ensure that the banks hand back the pension fund assets which belong to scheme members and which the banks have no right to keep , given their reckless lending practices ? |
| 7 | Where we are commissioned by outside bodies to produce reports on the environment , we should seek to ensure that the copyright rests with us ( Para 25 ) . |
| 8 | In rare circumstances a purchaser may seek to argue that the vendor has breached a warranty to such an extent that it considers the vendor to have repudiated the contract . |
| 9 | In these sections punishment will be understood to mean the infliction of pain and the review of the project will seek to demonstrate that the probation practice described is not only more demanding but also more effective than this traditional understanding of punishment . |
| 10 | By an amended respondent 's notice the natural mother supported the local authority 's appeal on the grounds advanced by their notice of appeal and further or alternatively sought to contend that the judge ( 1 ) had been wrong in law , fact or both to hear and determine the applications for leave when the mother was not a party to the applications and was not aware of them and the judge had not been apprised properly or at all of her wishes in the matter ; ( 2 ) had acted contrary to the rules of natural justice and to section 10(9) ( d ) ( ii ) of the Act of 1989 ; and ( 3 ) ought to have required the mother to be notified of the application pursuant to rule 4.3(2) ( b ) of the Family Proceedings Rules 1991 , rule 4.4 and Appendix III . |
| 11 | clarification of policy , possibly to bring it into line with the purchaser 's group policy but may also be seeking to ensure that the vendors collect as many overdue debtors as possible prior to sale . |
| 12 | In the succeeding weeks , while maintaining a position strongly opposed to Iraq 's aggression , the Soviet Union distanced itself from the US position , seeking to ensure that the enforcement of UN sanctions remained in the forefront as the means to secure an Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait , and advocating a UN framework for any enforcement action . |
| 13 | I have sought to demonstrate that the claim of the hon. and learned Member for Fife , North-East ( Mr. Campbell ) is fatuous , because we are spending much more money on sport than in the past . |
| 14 | More important , it was subversive of the control and influence over events which Parliament sought to exercise that the monarch exercising a substantial ‘ pay-roll ’ influence over Parliament itself . |
| 15 | The action sought to emphasize that the conflict , in which more than 3,000 people had died in faction fighting since January 1987 , was a national , and not simply a local problem . |
| 16 | The trust received UK source income and the taxpayer sought to argue that the arrangement was wholly outside Part XV because there was a foreign resident settlor and a foreign trust . |
| 17 | The solicitor acting for the College sought to argue that the Rybak case did not help Mr Sen as he had also acted on the advice of a solicitor . |
| 18 | The defendants sought to argue that the plaintiff was prevented from claiming breach of warranty since the material fact constituting the breach had been disclosed to the plaintiff at a meeting prior to signing the disclosure letter but had not been eventually contained in that letter . |
| 19 | The Chief Secretary then sought to imply that the Government might in some way be forced by the EC to extend the coverage of VAT . |
| 20 | The strategy must be to seek to ensure that the defendants bear the costs , at the end of every successful case , of every application for inspection made in the face of an unreasonable refusal of access . |
| 21 | It happens all the time — the question is merely an opener to fulfilling a wish to own something new , and merely seeks to confirm that the purchase is a worthy one . |
| 22 | Again , in a later paper , ‘ Social Structure and the Development of Personality : Freud 's Contribution to the Integration of Psychology and Sociology ’ ( 1958 ) Parsons seeks to establish that the ego , which consists of abandoned object-cathexes , must be cultural . |
| 23 | Remember , too , when acting for a seller on a sale by auction to attend the sale itself to answer any questions that a prospective buyer may raise on the title or the special conditions — and be wary of the questioner who seeks to suggest that the title is faulty or that restrictions prohibit development , etc , in the hope of abating the bids offered . |
| 24 | The approach to independent valuations seeks to ensure that the valuer retains an impartial stance , since , in these circumstances , he will usually be acting as an expert resolving the position between two or more parties . |
| 25 | It says it wants a fairer system of awarding contracts and also seeks to ensure that the taxpayer , via the Treasury , gets a proper return for the use of a scarce resource . |
| 26 | By spending money on the unemployed , the old , and the poor ( who in the UK are entitled to supplementary benefit if their total income from whatever source falls below a certain minimum level ) , the government seeks to ensure that the distribution of income and welfare that a totally free market economy would otherwise have produced is at least truncated : there is a minimum standard of living below which no citizen should fall . |
| 27 | The Association sought to show that the restrictions in the agreement were indeed indispensable to the promotion of technical or economic progress . |
| 28 | He hypothesized and sought to show that the consequences of this included a greater self-assertion by participants , a decline of leadership , a weakening of party government , and a loosening of the nexus of class and party . |
| 29 | Durkheim then sought to show that the movement from repressive to restitutive forms of law , from those based on penal sanctions to those aimed at restoration of relations before the law was violated , was indicative of a transition from a society based on ‘ mechanical solidarity ’ , or shared values , to a society founded on ‘ organic solidarity ’ , or functional interdependence . |