Example sentences of "seeking [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the second approach , two things were significant : that a major change in British industry ( the fact that it was experiencing increasing competitive difficuIties ) was in turn being reflected in geographical changes , and that these geographical changes ( for instance , the decentralization in an effort to cut costs ) were themselves one way in which British industry was seeking to combat the growing pressures upon it . |
| 2 | His views on divisive issues such as abortion , crime and affirmative action were not clearly defined , however , and it was generally thought that this factor , together with his general pragmatism , would assist him in seeking to heal the current divisions within the Republican Party . |
| 3 | Now the museum has moved to a new incarnation to accommodate its popularity — a former estate nearby , where a $9.2 million , 27,000-square-foot building has been constructed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects , seeking to replicate the mythical New England town hall , as does everything in the landscape from ice cream parlours to petrol stations . |
| 4 | Clwyd Health Authority is seeking to demolish the former War Memorial Hospital in Wrexham and to get planning permission for a supermarket on the site . |
| 5 | The incidence of this higher rate of tax — totalling , inclusive of the loan , 25 per cent — is therefore misleading ; in effect it acknowledged the superior position of £40 men while seeking to evade the full implications . |
| 6 | During analysis it appears that they often become involved with women who are attached to another man , and that they are unconsciously seeking to re-create the early family situation . |
| 7 | Since the tax was paid out of the financial resources of the merchants it was quite proper to seek consent from them rather than from parliament , but the merchants were suspected , no doubt with some justification , of seeking to pass the real burden of the tax on to the producers . |
| 8 | At the present time teachers may be working with limited resources whilst seeking to meet the varying demands of children with special educational needs . |
| 9 | In other denominations , as well as seeking to meet the social needs of those who are disadvantaged , there have been experiments with weekly joint services with the Asian community . |
| 10 | As Southern has remarked , this passage , only part of which I have quoted , illustrates the difficulties encountered in those days of telling the time and Walcher 's anxiety for precision in seeking to establish the exact correlation between the phases of the moon and the solar calendar . |
| 11 | He points out that the courts have departed from the old literal approach of statutory construction and now adopt a purposive approach , seeking to discover the Parliamentary intention lying behind the words used and construing the legislation so as to give effect to , rather than thwart , the intentions of Parliament . |
| 12 | We are not seeking to catch the innocent taxpayer . " |
| 13 | Far from avoiding reality , I was merely seeking to answer the hon. Gentleman 's question . |
| 14 | As well as seeking to eliminate the old technicalities , in which it has , I think , been largely successful , the new code made one radical alteration in the nature of the evidence which could be relied on to prove the offence . |
| 15 | He says : ‘ The flat hand-out is appropriate if you are seeking to mobilise the maximum numbers to vote . ’ |
| 16 | There is however now some evidence that Select Committees would like to interest themselves in the Committee system and may be seeking to erode the present convention . |
| 17 | It is not only Catholic Christendom which has been guilty of seeking to domesticate the Holy Spirit in this way . |
| 18 | In Conrad , for example , the focus lies in the sense of individual man vividly exploring and seeking to comprehend the elusive data of his alien environment . |
| 19 | The two women were staying at the Baya Camp at Lake Sibaya , an isolated settlement popular with tourists seeking to experience the African bush in the wild . |
| 20 | SOME THOUGHTS WHILE SEEKING TO FULFIL THE SPIRITUAL SELF |
| 21 | In Laker 's case the minister was seeking to require the Civil Aviation Authority to follow his policy but he chose a way of doing this which the Court of Appeal considered not to be within his powers . |
| 22 | THERE are certain problems in seeking to identify the intellectual foundations of the functionalist style in public law with a particular political ideology . |
| 23 | The constitution of the independent Latvian republic in existence from 1918 to 1940 was declared reinstated , following the example given by Lithuania on March 11 [ see pp. 37299-300 ; 37360-61 ; see also below ] , but the Latvian Supreme Soviet immediately suspended it in almost all respects , thus seeking to avoid the key issue in the current conflict between Lithuania and the Soviet Union . |
| 24 | Today the business provides an important gateway for Group producers seeking to service the Italian market . |
| 25 | And I think that 's what underpins the advice in Planning Policy Guidance note number three which is seeking to use the new settlement as a mechanism for improving the n the er the landscape . |
| 26 | ‘ The administrators are seeking to use the statutory procedure to get information which the company , if solvent , would not have been able to obtain before deciding whether or not to pursue the proceedings against B.C.C.I. |
| 27 | We have set about this task by seeking to extend the earlier analysis , and much of the discussion takes the form of modifying the earlier general equilibrium equations . |
| 28 | Zuckerman is seeking to deny the traditional connection between illness and psychic division which is reaffirmed in the novel as a whole , and which is also reaffirmed in The Facts , and at the same time to deny that there is a traditional belief in division or multiplicity , a long-standing sense of selfhood as a chimera . |
| 29 | Francis Bacon took that line when he suggested that , in seeking to understand the immediate causes of physical phenomena , the experimental philosopher should not be diverted by metaphysical considerations concerning the purpose of the phenomenon in question . |
| 30 | This strategic information was exceptionally rich , and for the business historian seeking to understand the strategic behaviour of the firm , it contained almost all that one needed to know . |