Example sentences of "seek [to-vb] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contributors , Roman Catholic priests and TM teachers among them , sought to harmonise the teaching of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi with their own views of Christianity . |
| 2 | She also sought to compare the impact of wife rape with the impact of rape by strangers and others , and found that 65 per cent . |
| 3 | In his early months he sought to stimulate the interest of the Cambridge Board in the appointment of resident tutors to pioneer development in the eastern counties of the District . |
| 4 | The National Old People 's Welfare Committee , later called Age Concern , sought to promote the welfare of old people throughout the United Kingdom and relieve the conditions which were revealed by the war . |
| 5 | The movement towards caveat venditor , at least in consumer sales , was confirmed by the Consumer Guarantees Bill 1990 which sought to implement the recommendations of the Law Commission Report No 160 on Sale and Supply of Goods ( 1987 ) . |
| 6 | Having some 1979 data on custody practices and prisoner interviews he sought to replicate the study in 1986/7 to assess the influence of the legislation on police practice . |
| 7 | In that case the contractor sought to sue the engineer for losses arising from alleged under-certification of the amounts due to the contractor . |
| 8 | Through this device the first German republic sought to preserve the role of the so-called ‘ free ’ welfare associations , foremost the established churches , which had become the key providers of welfare services ( Sachsse , 1988 ) . |
| 9 | The latest number of deaths were released yesterday as the Barlow Clowes Investors Group ( BCIG ) sought to secure the release of the Parliamentary Ombudsman 's report into the Department of Trade and Industry 's role in the affair . |
| 10 | In Fennell a father sought to secure the release of his son who had been arrested for participating in an affray . |
| 11 | The years 1794–1806 were something of a honeymoon for the Prussians and their Poles : a spirit of co-operation flourished as the Prussians sought to secure the affections of their Polish subjects . |
| 12 | That immigration remains a potent moulding force was evident in the outburst of racism in the Tory camp , and in the way that the respective manifestos sought to meet the requests of particular ethnic communities . |
| 13 | In preparing the timetables for these services we sought to meet the objectives of providing a series of connections between buses from central Livingston and trains to and from Edinburgh . |
| 14 | Kerensky sought to consolidate the position of the government by holding a State Conference in Moscow ( 12–15 August ) . |
| 15 | The Supreme Privy Council , established during the reign of Peter 's widow Catherine I ( 1725–27 ) , sought to establish the right to participation in , and an effective veto over , all major policy decisions . |
| 16 | At the congress delegates sought to establish the party as more than a single-issue party concerned exclusively with the repatriation of immigrants . |
| 17 | A survey just completed , sponsored by the Board for Chartered Accountants in Business ( the BCAB ) and the Institute 's Research Board , sought to obtain the views of company accountants on many of the R&D accounting and disclosure issues raised by these developments and recommendations . |
| 18 | By 1810 the legal government of independent Spain ( which had transformed itself from a Central Junta , composed of delegates from the Provincial Juntas , into a Regency ) was cooped up in Cadiz surrounded by a French army ; there it sought to find the sinews of war and to regularize the constitutional position by summoning a Cortes which met on 24 September 1810 . |
| 19 | Edith Durham sought to redress the balance in dispatches for The Times and the Manchester Guardian and through indefatigable lobbying in Whitehall and elsewhere . |
| 20 | At the same time , and recognising the importance of building an active membership , Jacques sought to increase the number of branches which had vigour , enthusiasm and commitment to the WEA . |
| 21 | Nettles with leaves the size of dinner plates fought a battle for possession of the clearing with garrotte vines , which sought to strangle the nettles with tendrils that sprouted vivid scarlet trumpet flowers . |
| 22 | The grammarians sought to discover the nature of reality . |
| 23 | These rulers did not seek to usurp the position of emperor , or to abolish the institution . |
| 24 | It is perhaps useful here to bear in mind the distinction often made in the study of pressure groups between ‘ interest ’ groups and ‘ cause ’ groups , though in the tactical struggle for influence each may seek to co-opt the support of the other . |
| 25 | In other words , A may seek to support the validity of his agreement with C by reliance either on executory or on executed consideration . |
| 26 | Presumably our recruiters will try to convey this , but written adverts , brochures and other media should seek to emphasise the benefits of which the following is a sample : |
| 27 | In Sudbrook the lessors had refused to appoint their valuer to discuss and seek to agree the value of the reversions with a valuer appointed by the lessees ; under the lease the valuers appointed were to refer the matter to an umpire . |
| 28 | What he might be doing is to actually seek to increase the proportion of our very vulnerable population into the means testing category and that what he 's got to watch is that he does n't end up in a position whereby defining health care in one way and social care very carefully . |
| 29 | The trustee can seek to obtain the agreement of members of the committee to a resolution by sending to every member a copy of the proposed resolution ( r 6.162(1) ) . |
| 30 | A long-term socio-economic programme in areas where small farms predominate will seek to encourage the amalgamation of small farms into more viable units to correct the age balance and encourage young people to stay on or come into farming in remote areas . |