Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb base] to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unhappily their revelations ran sharply counter to the teachings of the organised churches which contended that the human being was the designed product of an extraterrestrial being bearing the name of ‘ god ’ . |
| 2 | The transmutation of elements has an important place in modern nuclear physics ( as it did in mediaeval alchemy ) but ran completely counter to the aims of Dalton 's atomistic programme . |
| 3 | If I had a swelling like that come up on my ankle I 'd say right go to the doctors . |
| 4 | We believe the thrust of MPG Note 3 runs directly counter to the principles of sustainable development enshrined in the 1990 Environment White Paper : ‘ Our Common Inheritance ’ in encouraging the increasingly rapid depletion of a strategic and finite fossil-fuel reserve in order to achieve the barely disguised goal of improving the economic viability of British Coal . |
| 5 | Indeed , we could not be there , since we have neither access to the classrooms where ‘ disorder ’ rules , nor if we had would social life reconstitute itself as it existed before the camera , tape recorders and people accountable as social scientists were upon the scene . |