Example sentences of "he [modal v] seek [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Allen , co-founder with Bill Gates of Microsoft Corp and chairman of Asymetrix Corp , says he may seek to acquire America Online Inc , currently the hottest competitor for the IBM Corp-Sears , Roebuck & Co Prodigy Services Co viewdata offering . |
| 2 | J. Mill of the Internal Revenue Service is instructed to collect the income tax at the lower rate but he may seek to maintain revenue , and hence the status of his agency , by closing loopholes . |
| 3 | President Carlos Salinas de Gortari in an interview in the Financial Times of July 20 said that he would seek to have ceilings placed on high spending in such campaigns and to make election financing more transparent . |
| 4 | By promising the Jacobites that he would seek to get James Francis Stuart acknowledged as Anne 's successor , he not only won Jacobite support at home , but was also able to neutralise the Jacobite threat abroad , by making it appear that there was no point in St Germain or the French attempting an invasion . |
| 5 | He also suggested that he would seek to change school textbooks in order to reflect more accurately the brutality and aggression displayed by the Japanese military before 1945 . |
| 6 | Mr Levin has said that he will seek to reduce debt by selling off $3bn of non-strategic assets . |
| 7 | However , he is aware that he can seek to find time to raise it in the House . |