Example sentences of "to [be] contrary to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government rejected this , claiming it to be contrary to the notion of partnership between central and local government which the 1944 Act had established . |
| 2 | They are so restrictive to true Christian programming as to be contrary to the spirit and the letter of the new Act , therefore a direct violation of the will of Parliament . |
| 3 | This was claimed to be contrary to the right to property guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment . |
| 4 | The United Kingdom and the Governments of several other member states consider that , if national measures of the type at issue were to be contrary to the articles of the E.E.C . |
| 5 | This may not be immediately obvious , and in some cases in may even appear to be contrary to what one would normally regard as " common sense " . |
| 6 | Similarly , it was held to be contrary to natural justice to confirm an order on facts which the individual had no opportunity to show to be erroneous . |
| 7 | Josephine Butler , who put so much emphasis on the importance of women 's domestic virtues , deplored the idea that reproduction alone should be ‘ the essential aim of [ women 's ] existence ’ , and considered such a position to be contrary to ‘ the unity of moral law ’ . |
| 8 | Speculators are positively magnetised to situations which they believe to be contrary to the product of natural forces and as a result will not last . |
| 9 | The TUC was not prepared to abandon its sectional interest if measures to secure full employment were thought to be contrary to the interests of the unions . |
| 10 | The Bar notes with concern the reduction in number of those eligible for legal aid and finds the proposals for the introduction of a system of standard fees in the magistrates ' courts to be contrary to the interests of the public and to justice and to be offensive and unfair to the profession . |
| 11 | That would seem to me to be contrary to government guidance and the wording needs tidying up to reflect that if that is not what is actually meant by the revision and by the wording of the policy . |
| 12 | It appears to be contrary to what the Criminal Law Revision Committee and Parliament intended when they established " dishonesty " in the 1968 Act . |
| 13 | Cullen ( 1974 ) , unreported , seems to be contrary to cases such as Mainwaring . |