Example sentences of "[vb past] been run [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It 'd been running at a loss for years . |
| 2 | Until the mid-eighties Denmark Farm had been run as an intensive stock farm which , inevitably , had produced a degraded environment for wildlife — wet meadows and marshes drained ; traditional hay meadows ploughed and reseeded to rye grass ; all wild corners cleared ; and an old orchard , hedgerow and two-acre bluebell wood grubbed out . |
| 3 | Ten years earlier , on the Saturday afternoon of the Golden Jubilee Review , seventy-two special trains had been run into Aldershot without interrupting the usual flow of traffic . |
| 4 | The report lists ‘ many faults ’ inherent in the way the railway had been run for several years . |
| 5 | He felt his skin tingle , he felt the fine hair all along his spine react as if a low current had been run through him . |
| 6 | Since their mother 's death it had been run by Maggie , with bits of help from Mona and Sheila . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | This was the shop which had been run by Eb 's Aunt Emily ever since she was widowed , thirty years earlier . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Since then the city had been run by an interim commissioner . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Direct Line Insurance is Britain 's largest direct insurer and had been running at 100,000 new policies or thereabouts for three years . |
| 17 | In the War , distribution expenditure had been running at only a fifth of the prewar level , and the plans prepared by the undertakings for the Electricity Commissioners show they expected to continue to spend more than half of all their capital on developing distribution , as they had in the 1930s . |
| 18 | It had been running at more than 90 per cent capacity through the peak season , and weathered the lean winter months to show a profit of more than £250,000 . |
| 19 | Shortly before the February 1992 meeting it had been reported that OPEC production in January had been running at 24,200,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) , about 70,000 bpd above the level in December 1991 and the highest levels since the 25,000,000 bpd recorded in 1980 . |
| 20 | His younger brother Fitz , who had been running on the ground , now took over Kendo 's role and chased the monkeys further , while Kendo followed on the ground , along with Macho , Ulysse , Brutus and several females . |
| 21 | It had been running on unheard for some time , in any case . |
| 22 | Unit trust savings schemes had been running for 20 years , but investment trust savings schemes did not start until 1984 . |
| 23 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 24 | AAIB investigation showed that the main rotor drive had been running for a period with the chain displaced downwards on the large sprocket ( ie.e in the axial direction of the sprocket ) approximately half a tooth . |
| 25 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 26 | Mark Turnball , one of the business partners behind Lemmings , said the firm had been running for two years , organising events in many parts of the country . |
| 27 | For a start there were the Trumper 's advertisements on TV — a whole series of them , which had been running for years . |
| 28 | In 1984–5 , most of the courses in all institutions had been running for less than five years , though about a third of courses in Colleges , including nearly half the B Ed Primary courses had been operating in the way described for more than five years . |
| 29 | Take Benjamin Gribble for instance , on the settling day in March 1847 of a contract which had been running for 5 months : |
| 30 | It was also stated that a ‘ scam ’ had been running for quite some time prior to the defendants ' involvement . |