Example sentences of "[Wh det] ran counter [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This contained many proposals for the regeneration of these areas , including greater central government expenditure , which ran counter to the government 's ideas . |
| 2 | First , she made a free gift of Scotland , and her claim to England , to the French king , should she die without issue ; second , she put her country in pawn , for the money spent by France in defending it and educating her ; and third , she negated in advance any agreement between her and the Scottish Estates which ran counter to her disposal of Scotland in the interests of France . |
| 3 | In approaching the question of the primacy of Canterbury , we need once more to examine the roots of Anselm 's support for a local claim which ran counter to one of the most powerful principles of papal policy at this time . |
| 4 | The bond of liege homage posed a further difficulty for one who was sovereign in his own right : how could the king of England perform services to the king of France which ran counter to his own previous alliances ? |
| 5 | A major factor in his Free Church uncle 's disapproval of his nephew 's way of life was William 's enrolment in the 1st Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers ( reaching the rank of lieutenant-colonel before retiring in 1908 ) , which ran counter to Fraser 's pacifist views . |
| 6 | It could however intervene if any of the following defects were present : if the agency relied on factors which Congress had not intended it to consider ; failed to consider an important aspect of the problem ; offered an explanation which ran counter to the evidence before the agency ; was so implausible that it could not be sustained ; or failed to provide a record which substantiated their findings . |
| 7 | The swing away from science in the sixth forms of secondary schools , which ran counter to the expansion of science and technology in the universities , was the subject of this investigation . |
| 8 | Xinhua said that Legco was only a " consultative body " and therefore had no right to approve a resolution which ran counter to agreements and understanding reached between the UK and China . |