Example sentences of "been run by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since their mother 's death it had been run by Maggie , with bits of help from Mona and Sheila . |
| 2 | More recently , the state has been run by the Communist Party of India and its allies ; and , unlike communists elsewhere , they retain power through free elections . |
| 3 | The Central Policy Review Staff , or ‘ Think Tank ’ , which had been run by the polymath Lord Rothschild to supply Edward Heath with independent ideas and inject new life into strategic thought , was an early casualty . |
| 4 | This country really since the sixteenth century has basically been run by five or six people . |
| 5 | The village has one general store , an antiques shop , a garage , two public houses and a post office which was opened in 1851 and has been run by the same family since that date . |
| 6 | The Heviz has been run by Janos Toth and his family since it was opened in 1989 . |
| 7 | From the beginning Jarrad had been run by the same directors as Jesner and run in good faith in what the directors perceived to be in the family 's interest . |
| 8 | The Aquachamp competition has been run by ‘ Aquarian and Practical Fishkeeping magazine for many years . |
| 9 | This historic search of 1959 was an assignment to find a Chief Executive for ITT , the powerful but then rather dormant telephone equipment corporation , which had been run by a dynasty of ex-service leaders . |
| 10 | Up to now , it has been run by the government 's centre for information systems , the Central Computer & Telecommunications Agency . |
| 11 | FOR a country that has been run by soldiers for nearly a decade , Nigeria shows little enthusiasm for the elections due on June 12th . |
| 12 | For the last ten months , MTI has been run by Anthony Cataldo , former president of Internet Systems Japan , once the highest ranked salesman of international banking systems in the world . |
| 13 | So if your if you 're an elder it 'll be very difficult to get up those very steep steps etcetera so it 's got disadvantages now it 's been run all sorts of ways it 's was run you know it was run as a as a wine wine bar it was run as a restaurant it 's been run as a bar it 's been run as a stage door club but all this all these ways have been run by private individuals it 's not always been the trust that 's run it it 's been run as franchise all these people have great problems actually making profit out of it and making it suitable . |
| 14 | State departments of the Ministry of Culture have until now been run by party functionaries and protégés with personal contacts within the circle of the ‘ nomenclaturi ’ . |
| 15 | This was the shop which had been run by Eb 's Aunt Emily ever since she was widowed , thirty years earlier . |
| 16 | When Daine had first come to the City , he had — I knew for a fact — taken over a large proportion of the vice business that had been run by Paul Muni , a mobster whose empire had fallen thanks mainly to the investigative efforts and single-mindedness of — you guessed it — criminologist Claude Rains . |
| 17 | In earlier times , each major estate would have been run by bailiffs and reeves , from a focal point on the estate . |
| 18 | Since then the city had been run by an interim commissioner . |
| 19 | Franco had nominally held this post himself since October 1940 , but , for all practical purposes , the Ministry had been run by José Lorente Sanz , one of Serrano 's trusted protégés . |
| 20 | These estates would have been run by appropriate staffs of officials , including comites of the palace , various agents , refendaries , notaries and so forth , although , once again , it is doubtful whether there was a genuinely regular pattern to the duties of this band of administrators ; much clearly depended on who was attendant on the king at any one time . |
| 21 | Instead of acting as some source of " alternative expertise " , projects have been run by union committees and have involved releasing both workers representatives and specialists to produce specifications for new technology and associated systems . |
| 22 | I 've served on that one , and the whole business of the organisation has generally speaking been run by the executive and not by a full council . |
| 23 | There will be those who just can not get into gear , who will watch the private sector take over many of the functions which have been , previously been run by local government . |
| 24 | In the last 12 months , as well as losing a number of small commercial businesses the town has lost it 's fish shop which had been run by the Crudgington family for more than a century . |
| 25 | A pub which has been run by the same family for more than a century has won an award for its traditional charm . |
| 26 | Mr Ackerman stressed that in the five years the 20-pupil day school had been run by the Mannafields Christian Education Association at Carberry , near Musselburgh , East Lothian , no pupil had been punished in this way . |