Example sentences of "who run a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A couple who run a private nursing home have been barred from entering the premises while police investigate allegations that they stole from elderly residents .
2 A couple who run a private nursing home have been barred from the premises after allegations that they stole from residents .
3 The couple , who run a private nursing home near Richmond , want to take over the running of Hollyhurst home in Woodland Road .
4 Some people are already and perhaps unknowingly able to use the rules , such as those who run a taxable business and already have exempt rental income .
5 Belfast is the only area who run a first year league which was formed several seasons ago and this year 15 teams have entered with the finals before Easter .
6 This has coaxed the three Ochoa brothers , who run a blue-chip Medellin cocaine business , to give themselves up .
7 What do you think keeps the petty thieves and the people who run a bawdy house away from my door ? ’
8 They were advised by many friends , including Norman Hadden , Graham Thomas , Lanning Roper and old lady , Nellie Briton , who ran a rock-garden nursery near Tiverton .
9 So , it came as something of a disappointment when a Ms Mel Chevannes , who ran a black supplementary school in the West Midlands , wrote to the Wolverhampton Express and Star to protest at my testing ‘ hypotheses that black people are ‘ happy-go-lucky or very physical in their outlook ’ ’ and that my aims were to ‘ damage even further the life chances of black children ’ ( 25 June 1980 ) .
10 This was done very effectively in the late seventies in campaigns by Whitbread , who ran a series of ads asking for public comments on a number of propositions about the law affecting pubs and licensing ; and subsequently by the major banks , who ran a joint campaign partly designed to deter the threat of nationalization — a campaign which attracted many thousands of replies from the public .
11 Miss Harder was a spinster in her early fifties who ran a small tobacconist 's shop in London 's Archway .
12 When I first arrived , at the age of twelve , I was advised to try a family in Borgo delle Colonne , a long cobbled street with an arcade along one side , very typical of Parma , where a woman who ran a small dairy business undertook to look after me .
13 At the age of fourteen he was sent as a private pupil to the Revd Alfred North , who ran a small school for dissenters in Oundle , and he spent two years pursuing classical studies there .
14 Many of the older folk will remember Bobby Whale , who ran a fried fish shop from his house in Kent Road , and old Mrs Poysden whose toffee apples were the best I 've ever tasted .
15 Sidney Biddle Barrows , who ran a call-girl service in the 1980s , said the top-secret file was the only thing stolen from her Manhattan flat .
16 A management board was set up that comprised ‘ everybody who ran a little bit of the firm ’ .
17 Luckily we had bought them from friends who ran a nearby saddler 's shop ; unluckily they only had coarse blades in stock for our make of clippers .
18 His fine balance in the ring was spotted by his future manager , Samuel Wilson , who ran a sixpence-a-week gymnasium .
19 A couple who ran a social club for three years are taking legal action after being given just two hours ' notice to leave their jobs and home .
20 In our one-day workshop , stencil expert Helen Morris , who runs a successful stencil loan service and shop , will teach you how to cut stencils and then apply them to various materials such as walls , fabrics and furniture , using stencil paint , spray paint and crayons .
21 Lewis , who runs a martial arts centre in Toxteth , recently retained his Europa Cup title in Italy .
22 Meet the milkman who runs a hundred and fifty miles a week delivering pintas … and who 's representing the country in the ultra marathon !
23 In addition to the consumer who plans to buy the car , there is a dealer who runs a franchised retail outlet , a property owner from whom he leases the premises , a finance company which provides the consumer purchasers with credit , and a manufacturing company which supplies the dealer with automobiles under a requirements contract and probably a credit arrangement as well .
24 Denise , 64 , who runs a small Paris printing company with her 66-year-old husband , said : ‘ It was a romantic time , we were young , engaged , so in love and oblivious to the people around us .
25 Mrs Pattinson , who runs a five bedroom bed and breakfast business with her husband , Ian , a plumber and heating engineer , opened her doors at Bryn Arfon , Llanrwst Road , Woodlands , Conwy , to help them .
26 There 's a man who runs a jewellery-making class at the tech — he pays me for stones they can use . ’
27 Selwyn Jones , who runs a nearby cockle processing plant , said he had expected a confrontation .
28 Selwyn Jones , who runs a nearby cockle processing plant , said he had expected a confrontation .
29 Much later I recited the story of ‘ my day in search of a morgue , to a friend who runs a residential home on the south coast .
30 But Guy Tamplin , who runs a special quarantine kennel in Gloucestershire is horrified at the thought of the law being changed .
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