Example sentences of "it seek [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sought to achieve some form of policy coordination in other , more economic sectors : transport in 1953 , civil aviation in 1954 , and agriculture in 1955 ( though the latter was essentially organised within the context of OEEC since Switzerland and Portugal , not then Council members , were also participants ) . |
| 2 | For them , the survey embodied the scientific method because it sought to make basic observations of the phenomena of interest and out of this formulate generalisations . |
| 3 | It seeks to restore certain advantages to the trade unions . |
| 4 | It seeks to give fair coverage to all political viewpoints and to treat all views with a degree of respect not always found in other serious newspapers . |
| 5 | It seeks to disrupt all aspects of life , from supply lines to social services , using extremely violent methods . |
| 6 | Education is a normative enterprise ; it seeks to realize certain virtues . |
| 7 | What disturbs me about the wording of this resolution it 's quite clear that it 's it has not been discussed with the relevant officers here and yet it seeks to instruct those officers to prepare a report . |
| 8 | It seeks to answer three questions . |
| 9 | The appeal for tolerance by gesturing to lists of Famously Artistic Homosexuals is one of the classic tropes of gay self-justification — it goes ‘ Sappho , Michaelangelo , Shakespeare … and me ’ — and it needs always to be resisted because it seeks to extend contemporary definitions of sexuality back to incorporate historical periods when categorizations of the sexual were quite different . |
| 10 | Drink up : Euro Disney has begun to serve alcohol for the first time at four of its restaurants as it seeks to stem heavy losses from weak attendance . |