Example sentences of "not seek [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Unlike ITV , Channel Four would not seek to serve the vast audience but would have to satisfy parts of the audience at various times during the week .
2 The Plan does not seek to reiterate the considerable road safety input to the bulk of the day-to-day work associated with the statutory and other responsibilities of the Council and Chief Constable .
3 What is most needed is a clear explanation of the particular point on which evidence is sought ; the model form includes requests for summaries of the parties ' positions and suggests that relevant documentation ( court orders , pleadings ) might be attached ; but these should be restricted to matters illuminating the particular request for evidence and should not seek to rehearse the whole case .
4 The studies examined did not seek to determine the relative importance of age and parity to development of maternity related ailments .
5 However , it may form the basis of a new approach to problems in which lawyers and advisers will not seek to establish the legal nature of the problem and then find the relevant law , but will rather seek to establish the nature of the problem and then contemplate whether any part of the law might be relevant .
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