Example sentences of "which seek [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The publicity surrounding such cases and the call for greater disclosure in life assurance company accounts have led to some proposals for introducing new accounting practices for proprietary life companies which seek to re-spread shareholder profits more relevantly over the term of the individual policies . |
| 2 | It is becoming increasingly evident that theories which seek to explain patterns of crime in socio-economic terms must do so in conjunction with cultural and political variables . |
| 3 | Thus exemptions have been made available for R&D agreements , specialization agreements , and other agreements which seek to improve efficiency in production ( Sapir et al. |
| 4 | Insurance is only mentioned in UCTA 1977 ( s11(4) ( b ) ) with regard to clauses which seek to restrict liability to a specified sum . |
| 5 | The prime aim of the present research is to integrate social psychological approaches which seek to predict energy behaviour from attitudes with thermal comfort theory . |
| 6 | Those premium levels , which seek to encourage firms to use more fixed rate borrowings , will now apply to the whole loan and not just the guaranteed portion . |
| 7 | The Americans do not seem to have had problems in setting up units which seek to provide permanence by offering specialist and intensive social work services both to natural families and to children joining substitute new families . |
| 8 | Commercial contracts often contain time bars which seek to prevent claims after a specified date . |
| 9 | Doctors ' cooperatives are being formed which seek to prevent exploitation of doctors , but because of this care may be more expensive than that provided by group medical plans . |
| 10 | Likewise , the novel plays with normative paradigms such as those proposed by Greimas which seek to standardize narrative by defining it according to a canonic conception of what a story is . |
| 11 | The second occurs in those clauses which seek to circumscribe contact with those who were , for a given period , clients of the covenantee . |
| 12 | Questions about actions are defined as those which seek to establish facts ; questions which explicitly or implicitly seek to criticize individual officials are said to be directed at their conduct . |
| 13 | For instance , non-standard or value-added lines are now frequently targeted on customer segments which seek to avoid tile purchase of standardised products , whether these are foodstuffs , clothes , computers or industrial machinery . |
| 14 | Recent criticism has become increasingly interested in the institutions which seek to impose controls on what we can say about the Renaissance . |
| 15 | In fact , the whole discipline will become more applied in the sense that the emphasis will be shifted from laboratory studies , which seek to isolate variables in the abstract , towards being a social science , which examines socially shared beliefs , or social representations , in their actual social context . |
| 16 | All sectors of a city bounded by the main road network are having traffic calming measures introduced for environmental and safety purposes which seek to make journeys through them extremely difficult . |