Example sentences of "have run [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note that baths and shower trays have a low waste trap , so there will be problems getting sufficient fall on the waste pipe if it has to run all the way across a room under floorboards . |
| 2 | But she has to run 23.30 secs or faster to secure a place in the British team for Barcelona and , still hampered by an Achilles tendon injury , she does n't think she 'll do it . |
| 3 | Meanwhile back on the ward , Doctor Beri 's bleep goes again … this time it 's a call to casualty … and the weary house physician has to run half a mile from one end of the building to the other … along the new corridor linking the old part of the hospital with the new.By the end of the morning , he 's covered six miles … one day recently he covered eighteen miles : |
| 4 | As a result , the unemployment rate in Glenrothes stands at around 12 per cent and despite its good record at attracting high-technology companies , in the words of one corporation official , ‘ the town has to run hard to keep standing still ’ . |
| 5 | Dave , 45 , who has run 42 marathons , will wear top hat , tails … and shorts . |
| 6 | He has run 165 marathons , 76 half-marathons , nine 61-milers , 13 30-milers and 13 25-milers — and he did n't do his first marathon until shortly before his 60th birthday . |
| 7 | Retiring players will not be penalised if their failure to retire 10 metres is due to the rapidity with which the kick has been taken , but they may not stop retiring and enter the game until an opponent carrying the ball has run five metres ’ . |
| 8 | Access courses for Namibians WUS(UK) has run two special scholarship programmes in the United Kingdom for Namibians forced to leave their country before independence and take refuge in the front-line states . |
| 9 | Headford Arms , an October 1990 Balalaika dog now trained by David Connor , went for a four-figure sum and has run impressive trials . |
| 10 | Music Geoff Dyer laments that Bruce Springsteen 's river has run dry : Roderic Dunnett remembers the scandal of Schoenberg |
| 11 | The pen has run dry three times in writing a short address . |
| 12 | Since qualifying in 1968 Margaret has run many classes in the Redhill area and become a Medau trainer in 1972 . |
| 13 | UPS is also experimenting with compressed natural gas , propane , and has run battery-powered and methanol-fuelled vehicles . |
| 14 | You had one very good piece of news , which was ‘ During the past year the Environmental Health Department has run fifteen courses for food handlers , and one hundred and eighty-seven people have passed the examination . ’ |
| 15 | The protesters , from the Peace Train Organisation which has run six trains along the Dublin to Belfast line , the main rail link between north and south , were collecting signatures for a peace declaration in Dublin 's city centre yesterday . |
| 16 | There was no immediate word of a replacement for Mr Burbulis , who in the absence of a formal Prime Minister has run day-to-day government business . |
| 17 | Intel has run some SPEC system benchmarks of SVR4.2 on a 50MHz 486dx , probably the first of their kind anywhere , and come up with some interesting results . |
| 18 | If , however , you find that time has run short for the last answer , the best course is to reduce the answer to bare note form , using as many key headings as possible and abbreviating freely . |
| 19 | The two tower alone in a dingy apartment but perhaps they are really inside a womb which has run short of amniotic fluids . |
| 20 | Then Lady Walters and Miss Rosamond Wynn-Pope who is the indefatigable honorary organiser , and has run this ball so efficiently for the past fifteen years , drew the winning tickets for the raffle . |
| 21 | Perhaps you were weak and could not refuse this man because your ancient noble blood has run thin , because your family is no good any more . |
| 22 | Sandra Bates is a trained caterer who has run three restaurants . |
| 23 | Since 1980 , MacDonald has run three companies . |
| 24 | He is also interested in rugby , tennis , and jogging and has run three Dublin City Marathons . |
| 25 | The marathon fund-raising event has run three times since 1988 . |
| 26 | The Prince 's racing manager , Grant Pritchard-Gordon , said : ‘ He has run three times on soft and each run has proved conclusively that he does n't like it . ’ |
| 27 | They even appear on Nashville 's Grand Ole Opry , the live radio show that has run weekly since 1925 , where they share the stage with revered old-timers . |
| 28 | Then one of the kids yells that the tap has run cold , and they turn it off and bathroom and shuts the door , and the kids shriek in the water and I drift slowly back to our bedroom where it 's quiet and drab . |
| 29 | In Barcelona , Eric Liddell would have to run two rounds of the 200m , followed by the semi-final and the final the next day . |
| 30 | Taunton Cider has said it will have to run six lorries a day with a road haulage company in place of the once a week service to Scotland . |