Example sentences of "which seek [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attempts to develop a peinture feminine , on the lines of the écriture feminine proposed by Hélène Cixous ( whose rhapsodic feminism has had much greater impact on the Aglophone world than on her own French audience ) , led to works which sought to represent the very evanescence , immateriality , and ordinariness of women 's existential condition and past works , as in Bobby Baker 's performance art , in which she makes cakes or reproduces her daily kitchen routines , or , Susan Hiller 's cool , barometrically precise account of her own pregnancy , in the graphic work , ‘ Ten Months ’ . |
| 2 | In 1976 Britain , or more strictly England and Wales , introduced legislation which sought to control the worst excesses of the press and the courts in relation to rape . |
| 3 | As then , he dealt with the motion as a three-part whole rather than as separate clauses and refused to incorporate an amendment ( carried 2:1 ) which sought to modify the proposed Committee revision in respect of the Captains , which many members considered was a continuation of the sort of privileges previously enjoyed by bondholders . |
| 4 | A hopeful and insufficiently applauded shift in emphasis was signalled in 1986 by the Report of the Attorney General 's Commission on Pornography , which sought to identify the relative harms caused by various forms of pornography , thus making it possible to draw up a list of priorities . |
| 5 | From this impetus various theories were proposed which sought to apply the empirical method of the natural sciences to the study of society . |
| 6 | On the Tuesday night , however , my Private Secretary , Steve Godber , rang me at a dinner to tell me that at the eleventh hour Nigel Lawson had put round a minute which sought to reopen the whole issue of the replacement for SERPS . |
| 7 | With his evangelical approach , he thrived in the conditions of greater religious freedom introduced in 1988 , but his radical views on the church 's contemporary relevance placed him at odds with a traditionalist wing which sought to revive the Russian Orthodox Church as it had been before the Bolshevik revolution . |
| 8 | In this chapter , we have outlined the main theories which seek to explain the aggregate levels of consumption and investment . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A properly drafted partnership deed should contain articles which seek to regulate the following matters : ( a ) the name of the |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In contrast to the psychological rationalization , an ideological rationalization can refer to the socially shared content of ideology : in particular it can refer to the son of ideology , which seeks to explain the social world by making it seem rational . |
| 16 | Discussing the counselling process , McEvoy ( 1988 ) describes counselling as ‘ an enabling interaction between two people which seeks to support the weaker person as a responsible human being ’ . |
| 17 | What of those countries with legislation which seeks to protect the older employee ? |