Example sentences of "[is] seeking [art] " in BNC.

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1 We must accept that the bogus traveller — that is the best title to give to such a person — is seeking no more than a better life .
2 REG VARDY , the Northern car dealer , is seeking a full listing via a £7.1m placing .
3 Market uncertainty forced Hays , the business services group which is seeking a stock market listing , to revise the launch price for its offer for sale scheduled to take place this month .
4 ‘ Yes , Poland is seeking a place in all European institutions , ’ Mr Bronislaw Geremek said after meeting with the presidents of the Commission .
5 ‘ Yes , Poland is seeking a place in all European institutions , ’ Mr Bronislaw Geremek said after meeting with the presidents of the Commission .
6 But when a Service is seeking a capital system upon which its very future may depend , it will always offer to accommodate the cost by slipping lesser-priority programmes to the right or cancelling them altogether .
7 It also , incidentally , sits oddly with the widely peddled idea that Dr Owen is seeking a place in the Major cabinet .
8 The latest massacre coincided with the ending of a four-day visit to Burma by Mr Jan K Eliasson , Secretary General of the United Nations , who is seeking a solution to the refugee problem .
9 BRITISH Aerospace is seeking a partner for its profitable corporate jet business and is offering a majority stake to tempt bidders .
10 Ukraine has refused to recognise Russia as the successor in international accords to the Soviet Union , and is seeking a modification that would effectively turn START into a multilateral treaty .
11 The narrative base to this section ( Sukenick 's visit to Israel ) represents a journey to a country of spiritual origins as if he is seeking a lost unity antecedent to the modern state of division .
12 As a result the N.S.C.A. is seeking a change in the law requiring farmers to obtain prior approval for such burning from the local authority , whose officers would have an increased supervisory role .
13 The legislation will be used to back up the federal government 's high court case , due to be heard at the end of May , which is seeking a permanent injunction against the power project .
14 Working from these , and with microorganisms he is culturing in his laboratory to metabolise related compounds from the chlorodioxin group , Chakrabarty is seeking a single culture that can degrade 2,4,5-T to the point where heavily contaminated soil can be returned in a matter of days to healthy soil that can support plant life .
15 British Aerospace is seeking a partner to take over ‘ majority ownership ’ of its successful corporate jets business which builds the BAe 800 and 1000 .
16 Yet Community law equally applies when a UK company is seeking a listing in the UK , or contemplating a takeover in the UK , or considering a joint venture or distributorship in the UK .
17 In what amounts to a test case , the Aga is seeking a review of the Jockey Club 's decision to disqualify Aliysa .
18 POLICE dog handler Barry Barlow is seeking a mutt with ‘ a bit of sparkle ’ to be his new partner against crime .
19 One useful analogy for understanding Piaget 's theory is to view the child as a scientist who is seeking a ‘ theory ’ to explain complex phenomena ; like the scientist , the child at play carries out practical ‘ experiments ’ by acting on the environment and observing the outcomes .
20 He is seeking a pardon .
21 But Janet is so angry she rejected the offer and is seeking a cash settlement .
22 Elton is seeking a minimum $15 million in damages and a restraining order against the producers .
23 The Metropol Gallery of Vienna is seeking a buyer for the fire engine , provided the graffiti artists the Whitney once championed do n't get to it first .
24 Advanced Micro Devices Inc is seeking a manufacturing partner to help it raise output of its Am486 chips next year .
25 Aha , the textbooks reply , you 're missing the point : what the girl is doing is seeking a replacement for the security that was roughly torn from her ; she is looking for a father who wo n't desert her .
26 Perhaps , in this fictional world ( it must be fictional if it has dragons in it ) the knight is seeking a magic pineapple , hoarded in a dragon 's cave .
27 is seeking a remedy against the third , fourth and fifth defendants under section 6(2) .
28 is seeking a remedy against the third , fourth and fifth defendants under section 61(1) .
29 Even so , the American Guild of Organists is seeking a rise in salary scales , for many a highly qualified Church musician is ‘ paid at a level far below what his or her competence and training should expect ’ .
30 A telephone message may have come to say that a parent has died , a letter saying that a wife is seeking a divorce , but there is nowhere to hide and be alone with sorrow .
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