Example sentences of "been running a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The charity has been running a six-week summer scheme based at Shaftesbury Recreation Centre , on the banks of the Lagan , for the past three years .
2 IF he had been running a 100 metre sprint final , little Louis Stevens could n't have scampered any faster yesterday .
3 It 's been running a similar pilot scheme at the Radcliffe Infirmary for the past eighteen months and says consultants are enthusiastic about the results .
4 For over a year now we 've been running a major initiative which is a systematic review of all our Sainsburys brand packaging to see where we can minimise the use of materials , but still allow the packaging to do the job of protecting the product and preserving it .
5 During the last few years , Yugoslavia has been running a substantial surplus in its trade with the Soviet Union because , while there has been a sharp fall in the quantity of oil imported from the Soviet Union , as well as a fall in its price , the Yugoslavs have been unable to find other products worth buying from the Soviet Union .
6 Employees of the publicly owned public transport company EAS had been on indefinite strike since July 23 and the army had been running a reduced transport service in the capital .
7 It was as if he had been running a high temperature or tripped out of his head on acid .
8 American Airlines , based in Fort Worth , Texas , is presently losing about $81 million a month on the Stansted link , which has been running a daily Boeing 767 service to Chicago since June .
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