Example sentences of "had come a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | So both groups had come a similar distance in the sense of having the indications that there was something interesting to pursue further . |
2 | Bazin , 60 , a former World Bank economist , had been the candidate of the right-wing Movement for the Establishment of Democracy in Haiti ( MIDH ) in the presidential elections of December 1990 [ see pp. 37911-12 ] , when he had come a distant second behind Aristide . |
3 | He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial . |
4 | He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster . |
5 | Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 . |
6 | The CNAA had come a long way since 1964 : ‘ from being a shy bureaucracy it has become an important and an innovatory force in higher education ’ . |
7 | ‘ They had come a long way from a meeting in the very early days when Sunil Desai , Jayaben 's son and then secretary of the strike committee , had suggested that the men do the picketing and the women make the tea . |
8 | Washington had come a long way from the converted house of 1835 , the charmingly simple Italianate villa of 1851 , or even the pleasingly revivalist Baltimore and Potomac of 1873–7 . |
9 | He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland . |
10 | The Carolingians had come a long way from the single ancestral beer-hall : the chief officers would invite groups of the young men to their houses ( mansiones ) for dinner , " not to encourage gluttony , but for the sake of promoting true rapport ; and rarely would a week go by without each [ youth ] receiving one such invitation from someone " . |
11 | That newspapers had come a long way in the interim period was beyond doubt ; that they were to travel even further was to be confirmed by the manner in which the Cadburys disposed of the News Chronicle in 1960 . |
12 | Then she saw how the Oxo boy on the advertisement hoarding smiled and she realized that they had come a different way by a different route and that she was nearly at Mrs Parvis 's boarding house . |