Example sentences of "run [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , these activities would run parallel to our existing system of servicing our more traditional workforce . |
| 2 | We will resist Commission initiatives which run counter to the principle that issues should be dealt with on a national basis wherever possible . |
| 3 | But these results run counter to the differentiation theory . |
| 4 | One final comment , I have gained the impression from the correspondence in New Scientist that the statements of Associated 0ctel and of the petroleum industry are rejected largely because they have a vested interest , but also because they run counter to the ideas of correspondents . |
| 5 | Their conclusions run counter to any simple proletarianisation thesis about the effects of new technology on skill . |
| 6 | We now turn to an alternative , fairly recent , intellectual tradition which emphasises the conflict of interests in the work-place and suggests that management , on behalf of capitalist interests , have moulded technical developments so that they suit these interests and run counter to the interests of labour . |
| 7 | This is a difficult skill to develop , as evidenced by the rules of ‘ social politeness ’ which often run counter to what the counsellor wants to do . |
| 8 | The concern of civil libertarians , that we should not do things to or about old people which run counter to their wishes , is entirely legitimate . |
| 9 | This is because activities that run counter to expected norms need seclusion or invisibility to permit unsanctioned performance , and because the peculiar identities are sometimes impossible to realise in the absence of the appropriate setting . |
| 10 | Now it may be quite legitimate to point out that this or that minority group has vested interests which run counter to the interest or good of the great majority . |
| 11 | Other forms of inequality , social , racial and sexual , also run counter to the principle of political equality . |
| 12 | The explanations which they offer for continuing peasant unrest , however , run counter to important aspects of the Soviet explanation . |
| 13 | Neither do the Somali Patriotic Movement or the S.N.M. They argue that the appointments run counter to the U.S.C. , S.N.M. and S.P.M. agreement of 2 October 1990 . |
| 14 | The Malaysian Foreign Minister , Abu Hassan Omar , said that US military visits to Singapore would be closely monitored , adding that any move towards setting up a permanent US base would be unacceptable and run counter to the ASEAN goal of establishing a zone of peace , freedom and neutrality . |
| 15 | Restrictions on imports on purely-environmental grounds currently run counter to GATT rules . |
| 16 | Extending Labour 's front into Ulster , they say , would run counter to the policy of reunification of Ireland by consent . |
| 17 | that decisions are made for the right reasons and do not run counter to deeply held attitudes or beliefs |
| 18 | So far there is little here that would run counter to what would be considered orthodox Marxist views . |
| 19 | True , it would run counter to the idea of simplifying the tax system , but Lamont can always claim that the middle band will be steadily reduced until it , too , is 20 per cent . ’ |
| 20 | Such conditions reinforce the individual 's previous conditioning in his own family of origin but , of course , for some individuals it will run counter to their previous experiences . |
| 21 | This did indeed run counter to the original principle of a benign public monopoly . |
| 22 | The regular clergy remained a major source of friction , however , and the claims of Benedictine and Cistercian monasteries and nunneries could often run counter to the interests of secular nobles . |
| 23 | They do run counter to the views about national sovereignty held by most peoples in Europe , not just the British . |
| 24 | For example , a commitment to factories in ‘ favoured , areas would undermine the principle of competitive tendering and , relatedly , such ‘ favouritism ’ would run counter to EEC policy . |
| 25 | For example , while the newcomers may fail to understand the skill and local status of the farm worker , they do not wish to treat him as a social outcast — this would run counter to the notion of community with which many newcomers strongly identify . |
| 26 | Even so , the judges are hampered by the thought that they must not run counter to political trends , for example by implying a right to full compensation for the appropriation of property when a socialist legislature did not in terms provide for such compensation . |
| 27 | Loans and gifts of money provided by older relatives can often run counter to the expected patterns of support . |
| 28 | To attempt to change the dominant perceptions of what the corpus is all about will literally be irrational , because such a move would run counter to the form of life represented by the discipline . |
| 29 | Probably not , for tactical shifts at any moment may run counter to them . |
| 30 | The government denied that it was pursuing an anti-peasant policy , but refused to give in to demands for guaranteed minimum prices , claiming that this would run counter to its basic principles of establishing a market-based economy . |