Example sentences of "which seek [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Derived from policies which seek to preserve the landscape qualities of the English countryside , such estates have more often contributed to its deterioration .
2 Yet I shall argue that , behind this dialogue within liberalism , there lurks a deeper controversy between rival schemes of moral virtue and distributive justice which seek to define a legitimate market order .
3 There are a number of models which seek to explain the components and implications of different approaches to leadership which may actually serve to compound the problem :
4 When functionalists attempt to explain systems of social stratification , they set their explanations in the framework of larger theories which seek to explain the operation of society as a whole .
5 In this chapter , we have outlined the main theories which seek to explain the aggregate levels of consumption and investment .
6 It is vitally important , if we are to improve the mathematical attainment of our society , that the educational purposes of formative and diagnostic assessment , which seek to improve the teaching , take precedence over the monitoring and evaluative purposes , which at best merely seek to describe .
7 This research intends to help plug this gap , using the example of women 's initiatives in local government ( women 's committees etc ) which seek to improve the social and economic position of women both inside councils and in their local areas .
8 The methodological problems of this study to assess the impact of the SEM , are basically the same as those which seek to estimate the effects of the creation of the CU ( see Chapter 1 ) .
9 For this purpose the Regional Council has agreed a policy on violence to employees at work in order to identify and promote practices which seek to minimise the potential risks of violence to employees .
10 The FRED retains the proposal made in the Discussion Paper , which was supported by the majority of respondents , that convertible debt should be accounted for entirely as a liability until such time as it is actually converted , in preference to methods which seek to reflect the dual nature of convertible debt as part liability and part equity .
11 Teachers should realise , therefore , in presenting their programmes of Religious Education which seek to foster a personal faith and commitment they can quite properly assess pupils ' knowledge , understanding , skills and attitudes in varying degrees for the benefit of the individual pupil .
12 Gen. Vladimir Kryuchkov , the KGB chairman , made an unscheduled nationwide television broadcast on Dec. 11 in which he pledged that KGB troops would do their utmost to prevent the Soviet Union 's collapse by continuing to " act as a barrier against those forces which seek to push the country towards chaos " .
13 A properly drafted partnership deed should contain articles which seek to regulate the following matters : ( a ) the name of the
14 Many of course have come to that conclusion before , and those who have tried to reach a naturalistic morality which transcends it have had to read the historical record , or read beyond the historical record , in ways which seek to reveal a partly hidden human nature which is waiting to be realized or perfected .
15 During the year , the Enterprise Centre has worked with other Departments/ Units to pioneer two innovative elective modules , which seek to address the development of students ' enterprise skills in new settings .
16 There are , however , a number of provisions contained in TA 1988 , Part XV ( ss660-689 ) which seek to tax the income arising from the trust property upon the settlor , even though he may have attempted to alienate that income for tax purposes .
17 In order to ensure uniformity in all the member states , it must be recognised that the concept of ‘ matters relating to tort , delict and quasi-delict ’ covers all actions which seek to establish the liability of a defendant and which are not related to a ‘ contract ’ within the meaning of article 5(1) .
18 It must therefore be stated in reply to the first part of the second question that the term ‘ matters relating to tort , delict or quasi-delict ’ within the meaning of article 5(3) of the Convention must be regarded as an independent concept covering all actions which seek to establish the liability of a defendant and which are not related to a ‘ contract ’ within the meaning of article 5(1) .
19 Now we would add that representations which seek to achieve a continuation of past building rates , or a continuation of past migration levels , are not in accord with the strategy as originally approved .
20 This rule may help to keep clear the distinction between those interventions which seek to challenge the structural conditions under which racist discourses are directly or indirectly reproduced , and those strategies which aim to interrupt their circulation in specific micro-contexts , and/or introduce alternative story lines .
21 Studies of cognition which seek to elucidate the nature or that cultural order which we might impose upon or recognize in the world may well be concerned with the classification of objects , but they generally fail to acknowledge , let alone address , the difference between artefacts such as cutlery which already incorporate categorization in their manufac-turer , and objects such as trees which do not ( e.g. Rosch 1978 : 30–5 ) .
22 Section 7 imposes similar controls on clauses which seek to exclude the equivalent implied terms in other contracts of supply such as hire , work and materials and barter .
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