Example sentences of "people running the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was , he decided , an extremely oppressed working class , black and white , and an extremely greedy philistine group of people running the system . |
| 2 | We wonder whether there are n't perhaps rather too many of the beautiful people running the Trust , perhaps sustained by the arcane procedures for electing them . |
| 3 | The people running the country were the great landowners and bureaucrats of the old empire , who were themselves a class mainly created by the large-scale bankruptcies of the lesser gentry in the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | The third course of anti-parliamentarianism is neither the authoritarianism and distrust of political parties of the right ( although President Mitterrand also seems to share it ) , nor the belief in direct democracy of the left , but is an unsystematic belief that the actual people running the country are useless . |
| 5 | The point about a public corporation was its midway status between the politicians and their civil servants on the one hand — and the people running the broadcast services day to day on the other . |
| 6 | The people running the CEGB came from a generation who believed in the power of technology to solve problems , in motorways and in growth of consumption . |
| 7 | So , the businessman goes across the road to the people running the schools , and says , ‘ These are the jobs we want filled , if you can teach the children these skills we will give them priority if they come to us for a job when they leave . ’ |