Example sentences of "[Wh pn] ran [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marie Wassilieff , who ran the artists ’ canteen , gave him free meals and heaped advice upon him lavishly . |
| 2 | The leisure and recreation convener , Charles Farquhar , said it gave the council no pleasure to raise the charges , as it had a high regard for the people who ran the teams . |
| 3 | According to Sir Claus , who ran the services from 1967 to 1978 : ‘ Before the Rayner Review the purpose of the government statistical services was to serve several masters , first and foremost — and this was never in doubt - the Government ; but also industry , academics the public , indeed the whole nation … |
| 4 | Men Who Ran The Trams — The Managers |
| 5 | Flotation has become properly developed only in the past 30 years : it was certainly not available to the ‘ old men ’ who ran the mines last century . |
| 6 | Thus in the second half of the nineteenth century between 25 and 40 per cent of the members of the Swiss Federal Council consisted of entrepreneurs and rentiers ( 20–30 per cent of the Council members being the ‘ federal barons ’ who ran the banks , railways and industries ) , a rather larger percentage than in the twentieth century . |
| 7 | At least two-thirds of Americans have never had any reason to think of the British as their Anglo-Saxon cousins ; the East European émigrés who ran the studios were no more likely than their successors to look upon British producers as partners , and nobody would queue to see a film just because it was British . |
| 8 | These include the ‘ legacy of the British ’ , who promoted an overtly punitive penal philosophy , more concerned with the repression of dissent than with ordinary crime , and who ran the prisons as cheaply as possible ; a labyrinthine criminal justice system , which causes many accused persons to spend years in gaol before their trial is completed ; widespread political interference with the police , whereby criminals with ‘ connections ’ often escape justice , leaving the gaols populated predominantly with poor rural labourers ; the designation of prisons , under the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution , as primarily the responsibility of the thirty-one individual states and union territories rather than the Indian government — which has perpetuated gross differences in practices and standards ; and the generally low priority attached to ‘ non-productive ’ areas like penal reform in a country with 250 million people below the poverty line , where economic development dominates planning and expenditure . |