Example sentences of "who ran the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The front row on the left was taken by the two light-skinned women who ran the Primary School . |
| 2 | While the British were doing this , they learnt enough about the political situation in Bengal to realize that in a few months of confused and contradictory policy ( of which his aggressive and then conciliatory treatment of the East India Company was only one example ) Siraj-ud-Daula had lost the confidence of the Hindu merchants and bankers who ran the financial system and of some of the Muslims who ran the Bengal army . |
| 3 | Around the turn of the century , the mill was bought by a Mr Herbert who , in turn , let it to Henry Boulting who ran the adjacent farm . |
| 4 | Ann Cook , 48 , of Church Road , Yardley , Birmingham , who ran the Posh Paws parlour , had tethered the dog to a table next to the heater to dry while she made herself lunch , said Mr Wykeham Garsia , prosecuting . |
| 5 | For a few months in the summer of 1939 he worked at 2 Caxton Street , Westminster , alongside L. D. Grand , a Woolwich contemporary who ran the then inadmissible section D of the secret service . |
| 6 | Peter Jones , who ran the Atomic Weapons Establishment from 1982 to 1987 , is also concerned that production of the next generation of Trident warheads is going ahead in buildings which are more than 30 years old which might not be able to contain a bad leak . |
| 7 | Pierre Matisse , the artist 's son , who ran the famous New York gallery which bore his name from 1931 until August 1989 when he died aged eighty-eight , left a stock of 2,300 paintings by sixty-one modern artists , purchased for $142.8 million by Sotheby 's and New York dealer William Acquavella . |
| 8 | He was overhauled in the final 100 metres by Alessandro Lambruschini , who placed fourth in the 1988 Olympic steeplechase final , but dipped under 55 secs for the last lap and clocked 3 mins 47.7 secs faster than Neil Horsfield and John Mayock , who ran the first two legs for Britain . |
| 9 | At one extreme , there might be the virtual monoculture of the new agricultural areas , imposed by their orientation towards a remote world market , and intensified , if not created , by the characteristic mechanism of foreign merchant firms in the great port cities which controlled this export trade — the traditional Greeks who ran the Russian corn trade through Odessa , the Bunges and Borns from Hamburg who were about to fulfil the same function for the River Plate countries from Buenos Aires and Montevideo . |
| 10 | The girl clearly missed having a woman around who was closer to her age than the rather stiff-faced servants who ran the great hacienda . |
| 11 | Lawyer C was the legal executive/managing clerk who ran the small provincial practice . |
| 12 | Myeloski was beginning to realize that he could be taking on forces that encompassed the very people who ran the Soviet Union , the powermasters who employed him to keep the peace as a police officer . |
| 13 | Noel Gardens , that 's the gardens of the people who ran The Early Bird Gardens run now is n't it ? |
| 14 | This time one came off ; the man who ran the shy picked it up and gave it to Emmie . |
| 15 | The boaters happened to be Russell Train , who ran the Federal Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) in Washington , just 50 km to the west , and Senator Charles Mac Mathias of the state of Maryland , which shares with Virginia the bay 's 13 000 km of shoreline . |
| 16 | The 1695 date was possibly invented by Newcomb to goad his arch-rival John Drakard , who ran the radical Stamford News from 1809 to 1834 , as Newcomb was well aware of the 1712 date . |
| 17 | Hardy , who ran the fastest intermediate ladies lap in the Northern relay championships at Derby a month ago , said : ‘ This must rate as my best-ever road race victory . ’ |
| 18 | Eve had n't known that Birdie Mac who ran the sweet shop had a man from Ballylee who had been calling for fifteen years , but she would n't leave her old mother and the man from Ballylee would n't come to Knockglen . |
| 19 | IT WAS always this week that the people who ran the residential home began to put up the streamers and tinsel of Christmas . |
| 20 | The horse is the rehabilitated The Committee who ran the proverbial ‘ blinder ’ in the Kim Muir and who is now quietly fancied to give Homer his first win in the National . |
| 21 | While the British were doing this , they learnt enough about the political situation in Bengal to realize that in a few months of confused and contradictory policy ( of which his aggressive and then conciliatory treatment of the East India Company was only one example ) Siraj-ud-Daula had lost the confidence of the Hindu merchants and bankers who ran the financial system and of some of the Muslims who ran the Bengal army . |
| 22 | The Serbian oborknezovi and bašiknezovi who ran the local administration were left very much on their own by the Turks as long as they maintained order and collected the taxes required of them . |
| 23 | A Copt who ran the soft drink stall across the square brought three kilos of grapes and prayers . |
| 24 | Peggy Pine who ran the smart clothes shop said that she might have her young niece staying with her . |