Example sentences of "have run [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the variety of possibilities at each move , the ability to predict who will win from a given move becomes less and less reliable , the longer the game has to run after that move . |
| 2 | ANOTHER of the grand golf developments which have been planned for Britain has run into financial difficulties , the receivers being called in at Quietwaters , a £20 million complex being built between Colchester and Maldon in Essex . |
| 3 | The wideband cable systems which were trumpeted some years ago could well carry high quality sound as well as umpteen television channels but their development has run into serious economic problems . |
| 4 | It has run into serious problems . |
| 5 | Many a swimming pool fund has run into choppy water and adventure playground appeals turned into assault courses ! |
| 6 | But this system has run into severe problems of falling yields , weeds , and plant disease . |
| 7 | The scheme has run into some difficulties in finding both sites and sponsors , although the City Technology Colleges Trust , set up to promote the scheme , claims that the programme is on course to meet its target . |
| 8 | Asher Edelman — the US corporate raider who has stalked the Bhs to Habitat group Storehouse — has run into big financial reversals on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 9 | Although not a Government publication , this book , first published in 1923 , achieved considerable popularity before the Second World War and has run to twelve editions , all revised by the original writer , the most recent being that of 1954 ; in England it was the main vehicle for the principles of Sir Truby King and his Mothercraft Training Society . |
| 10 | The scheme has run for three years and , during that time , around 180 dogs and bitches have been neutered . |
| 11 | ‘ There 's a strange train on the line coming this way and it has run through all the fogs without setting them off . ’ |
| 12 | Aylesbury 's Bear brook has run through these brick arches since the beginning of the last century . |
| 13 | This theme has run through white papers ( HMSO , 1985 ; 1986a ) , statements from central-government ministers ( Rumbold , 1986 ) , and has increasingly impinged on the urban debate . |
| 14 | The way their luck has run in this year 's competition it is no idle dream . |
| 15 | The way their luck has run in this year 's competition it is no idle dream . |
| 16 | This series has run from last March , and by now we have hopefully supplied every bit of information the beginner requires to set up an efficient basic tropical tank ( throughout this feature we back-reference for your convenience if you missed earlier articles ) . |
| 17 | Euratom would probably have run into similar difficulties even if the EEC had not been in place . |
| 18 | Later critics of the President believed that the resolution would have run into much more opposition if all the facts had been known . |
| 19 | I thanked him , he saluted , and the two of them walked on My guard said that I was crazy ; I could have run into terrible trouble , but I had been lucky and now I had only to choose a beautiful new bicycle . |
| 20 | By then legal costs alone will have run to more than half the price of the toilet . |
| 21 | Had he not done so , the probability is the probation order would have run for six months and no one would have been any the wiser . ’ |
| 22 | So although the machine may have run for eight minutes , it was not an uninterrupted eight minutes . |
| 23 | Although the current five-year term of the People 's Action Party ( PAP ) administration could have run until 1993 [ for 1988 general election see pp. 36352-53 ] , Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong who succeeded the veteran Lee Kuan Yew in November 1990 , wished to secure a popular mandate for his leadership and its changes of policy emphasis [ see p. 37860 ] . |
| 24 | The William and Mary declaration being 1688 , it suggests that such a lease might have run from that date , but it could have been earlier , in which case such an arrangement would have been almost certainly ultra vires . |
| 25 | One could not help wondering how many tries the Australian , French , or dare I say it , English backs , would have run in that day , but double figures would not appear unreasonable even against an ordinary Welsh defence that is the norm in international rugby these days . |
| 26 | This batch of cars was transferred onto South Metropolitan tracks in 1906 , from the ‘ Croydon District Tramways ’ system , having run since 1902 as Croydon Corporation Nos. 36–45 , although always the property of the B.E.T . |
| 27 | Never having run for public office does not daunt this ‘ can-do ’ folk hero who once sent a team of ex-commandos into Iran to rescue two of his employees being held hostage . |
| 28 | I could 've run with that . |
| 29 | Inflation , officially set at 9 per cent , was estimated by the Far Eastern Economic Review of Sept. 5 to have run at 24 per cent in 1990-91 . |
| 30 | So great a flood … has been estimated to have run for 2 weeks . |