Example sentences of "which sought [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , Proposition 13 , which sought to curtail local government expenditure , can be related to antipathy towards property taxation . |
| 2 | In spite of a number of important publications in the early 1980s which sought to take Edwardian Conservatism seriously , notably the work of Geoffrey Searle , Alan Sykes , and Gregory Phillips , the Conservative party remained the Cinderella of Edwardian historiography , languishing in the shadows while its ugly sisters , the Liberal and Labour parties , hogged the limelight . |
| 3 | A government immigration decree was issued in 1990 which sought to restrict foreign investors from entering the retail trade and other sectors of the economy . |
| 4 | This was in part due to the emergence of New Unionism which sought to organize unskilled workers . |
| 5 | Their advice defined political unions as those attempting to follow Community Party policies which sought to replace enterprise-specific agreements with inter-industry collective bargaining in order to widen the class struggle . |
| 6 | In order to gain hegemonic support , the Conservative Government had to establish a moral position which sought to comfort those sections of the British electorate concerned about the changing political and moral climate . |
| 7 | The accord , which sought to end political violence , was agreed by 31 parties , including religious and business groups . |
| 8 | Act 1919 , which encouraged adjacent districts to co-ordinate their plans , and the Town and Country Planning Act 1932 , which sought to encourage local action to regulate activities in both the town and county ( Sheail 1981 ) . |
| 9 | In the absence of appropriate provision by other bodies , the WEA had grown as a social movement which sought to provide those opportunities for people , denied access to further and higher education , either through its own efforts or cooperatively , but without patronage , in partnership with the universities , LEAs , and other agencies . |
| 10 | In 1971 Lady Onslow was working as a volunteer for Teamwork Associates , a charity which sought to keep ex-Borstal boys on the straight and narrow . |
| 11 | At its hard edge it is critical of the threat of socialism itself , but it is also critical of Keynesianism — that theory of economic management which dominated the political consensus from the Second World War to the mid-seventies and which sought to maintain full(ish) levels of employment on the basis of governments managing the economy by manipulating the level of demand by putting money into , or taking it out of , the economy . |
| 12 | In May 1989 I first introduced a ten-minute rule Bill — the Public Service Contract Bill — which sought to establish minimum standards of public service with automatic compensation for failure . |
| 13 | No mention of private Bills would be complete without paying tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for New Forest ( Sir P. McNair-Wilson ) for the way in which he chaired the Committee which sought to untangle this web . |
| 14 | In 1525 , parliament was sufficiently alarmed by ‘ the damnable opinions of heresy ’ of ‘ the heretic Luther and his disciples ’ to pass the first of the acts which sought to prevent Lutheran literature being brought into the kingdom . |