Example sentences of "running their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sample of the agency 's clients will be asked how the advice given by the agency has helped them in running their small business . |
| 2 | The tenants gain great skill and experience over the years in serving the public and in running their public houses . |
| 3 | He was a director of Macmillan for ten years , first running their secondary schools division and then becoming Group Electronic Publishing Director . |
| 4 | But for a committee of aristocratic do-gooders , who are in the business of saving children from violence and abuse , to summarily dismiss a massive cash injection on the flimsy grounds of taste suggests they should n't be in a life-and-death business but rather running their local Girl Guides or church fete toffee-apple stalls . |
| 5 | The police , who are running their own campaign against rural crime , say they understand the farmers ' worries , but hope the private firms soon wo n't be needed . |
| 6 | erm so the fact that now peasants are running their own associations is n't you know a riff-raff , obviously the peasants in your , your point of view |
| 7 | The ‘ uneasy partnership ’ continued with some modifications throughout the 1920s and 1930s , and by 1945 , 104 out of 315 LEAs were still running their own schemes . |
| 8 | By 1914 , there were over 400 Board of Trade exchanges in the United Kingdom dealing with juveniles ; in 44 districts the Board had also authorized JACs , and in 58 districts the LEAs were running their own schemes . |
| 9 | Whereas Types 1–4 , are all variants of the basic two-tier model of primary school management , in this type the coordinator and curriculum leaders represent a significant and formally recognized additional layer in the management structure , running their own meetings and development programmes , reporting back to the head and the staff as a whole , and contributing in a distinctive way to overall school policy . |
| 10 | The first weeks in a job can be daunting — and irritating for women who are used to running their own lives . |
| 11 | A Britain where freedom was extended and where people took on more responsibility for running their own lives . |
| 12 | members were most interested in running their own school and tended to see more general materials as not immediately relevant |
| 13 | The accession to power of nationalist movements and parties — the taking of political power by indigenous Africans previously denied a voice in running their own countries — brought about a dramatic transformation in Africa 's media . |
| 14 | ‘ Most people in the health service suffer from the feeling there are far too many layers of authority above them and far too many constraints about what people can do when it comes to running their own unit better . |
| 15 | Hospitals that have chosen to opt out of health-authority control and become self-governing will start running their own affairs . |
| 16 | LIKE other companies that presume to tell others their business — banks , advertising agencies and so on — management consultants have a poor reputation for running their own affairs . |
| 17 | They continued to enjoy rather more autonomy in running their own affairs , but the state officials who dealt with them were scarcely less rapacious than landlords . |
| 18 | Measures affecting higher education saw the universities granted greater autonomy in running their own affairs . |
| 19 | Four hospitals in the central south area are to carry out a pilot study in running their own affairs , a first step towards opting out of the National Health Service . |
| 20 | And they resent the KGB coming in and running their own operations on Romanian soil . |
| 21 | The Tories desperately want to claim their befuddled education policy is working while schools running their own budgets strain to publicise exam results , hoping to attract pupils . |
| 22 | This is vital because most people taking up franchises are not experienced in running their own businesses . |
| 23 | VAT rules are threatening a valuable scheme that helps people on unemployment and other benefits to get the first foot on the ladder to running their own businesses . |
| 24 | Would be suitable by anybody 's standard whether locally or by er centrally do n't volunteer either because they find working with councillors and local officials particularly in recent years when local authorities have become much more party political and that 's been a pity , or the suitable people are too busy running their own businesses . |
| 25 | Many people are in this situation of trying to find time to care adequately for parents in their own home , while running their own jobs and family . |
| 26 | Econometricians are not , in my experience , very good at translating their findings into terms readily understood by those without at least A-level mathematics and statistics : those who are running their own consultancies also have an understandable reluctance to go into the full details of their equations and the modifications that may be required to fit equation and data more closely together . |
| 27 | Commitment not only to the extended family but also to the nuclear , two-parent family will diminish as men fail to adjust to the aspirations of educated women , and more women follow the long-established practice in coastal west Africa of running their own households . |
| 28 | Finally , they could contribute to the farm income by running their own tourist enterprise . |
| 29 | Youngsters at St Paulinus RC Primary School in Guisborough are running their own health centre complete with cafe as part of a mini-enterprise venture . |
| 30 | The Employment Department took the view that the TEC wrongly paid money to employers who had been running their own training schemes outside the Youth Training orbit ; this enabled the TEC to meet its government-imposed target of training weeks . |