Example sentences of "have been [verb] run [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A COMPANY has been formed to run two sawmills which have been bought out by management from the previous owners . |
| 2 | Blue ear disease in pigs has been allowed to run unchecked by the Government who in September closed their veterinary investigation centre in Lincoln , which is where work into that type of disease was carried out . |
| 3 | McIllvanney also kept a few power-cruisers of his own for charter , and his yard ran an efficient yacht-servicing and marine supplies business , and thus the boundaries between his operations and Cutwater Charters were necessarily blurred and , for all intents and purposes , he could have been said to run Cutwater . |
| 4 | The single-storey grey stone building stood amid fields where vines and figs used to grow in abundance , but which had been left to run wild and were now covered in bright carpets of wild flowers . |
| 5 | The vegetable garden beyond had been allowed to run wild . |
| 6 | Numerous ad hoc bodies have been created to run specific functions such as broadcasting and television , the ports , industrial training schemes and the administration of government property . |