Example sentences of "have been run [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Robert points out this is the first time that this function has been run as a single corporate entity . |
| 2 | Until the mid-eighties Denmark Farm had been run as an intensive stock farm which , inevitably , had produced a degraded environment for wildlife — wet meadows and marshes drained ; traditional hay meadows ploughed and reseeded to rye grass ; all wild corners cleared ; and an old orchard , hedgerow and two-acre bluebell wood grubbed out . |
| 3 | Since then the city had been run by an interim commissioner . |
| 4 | Both projects have been run at a substantial deficit for the sake of other ends , which include ultimate profit . |
| 5 | He might look like an old man who 's been run over a few times to you , but to me … ’ he puffed his chest out even further ‘ … he 's a vicious criminal . ’ |