Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But the industrial robot has come a long way since the early sixties when Joe Engelberger set up Unimation , the world 's first industrial robot making company . |
| 32 | Air refuelling has come a long way from the first attempts in the thirties where the co-pilot literally popped out and grabbed the hose . |
| 33 | But those old ideas do take a long time to die . |
| 34 | Teclis was stronger now , the potions of the Loremasters had gone a long way towards giving him mortal strength . |
| 35 | ‘ Sound does travel a long way , does n't it ? |
| 36 | For Greece , as for Germany and one other country in the NATO alliance , the cold war had shut a long border on the other side of which lay once-familiar territory . |
| 37 | Phil 's got a long way to go actually |
| 38 | The Iraqi leader 's threatened a long range missile strike on Israel if it does n't leave the occupied territories after yesterday 's violence that left nineteen Palestinians dead . |
| 39 | DANDELIONS have come a long way in Darlington . |
| 40 | Later excavations have shown a long sequence of development from a late Saxon farm or manorial complex with two phases of churches , to a medieval manor house . |
| 41 | The Thatcher governments have gone a long way towards puncturing claims about the power of the unions . |
| 42 | It may be that osteopathy or chiropractic could help ; and both osteopaths and chiropractors have had a long training which includes medical education and qualifies them to give valuable help with backache . |
| 43 | Kapil has advanced a long way since he burst onto the international scene in the late 1970s . |
| 44 | Geldof has come a long way since his first single with the Boomtown Rats , a hymn to selfishness called Looking After Number One . |
| 45 | Anna has come a long way from the Romanian orphanage where she spent the first two years of her life , a malnourished , incontinent infant with a shaven head . |
| 46 | Visual art education has had a long tradition of emphasizing the practical , so it was not surprising to find similar sentiments being expressed by the visual art teachers interviewed . |
| 47 | Today 's theme will serve us satisfactorily as a basis for our meditation , because water has had a long association with such images of healing , blessing and anointing . |
| 48 | Northwich-Winsford in mid-Cheshire has had a long record of stable employment provided by companies like ICI and Foden . |
| 49 | It sounds like the Fire Service has come a long way from the early years . |
| 50 | Rapid inflation has increased the cost of planting further detracting from the willingness of farmers to contemplate introducing a long term investment like forestry , on any significant scale . |
| 51 | For me , a little bit of race watching goes a long way . |
| 52 | Miss Lodsworth had had a long day . |
| 53 | Why do you think many of the farmers prefer to have a long ley in each field rather than changing from arable crops to grass every one or two years ? |
| 54 | You know , you 'd think things had changed a long time ago but erm I remember having Chrissy in that yard when he was a baby in his pushchair where and there was the coalman 's horse and erm |
| 55 | Modern petrological studies have gone a long way towards answering this question : polished hard-rock axes seem to have been made from stone obtained from a limited number of outcrops . |
| 56 | And while the original Ethernet spec was a lowest-common-denominator approach , using the crudest cable and a distinctly modest data rate , things have come a long way since then . |
| 57 | American Pentecostalism has travelled a long way from its roots in the southern states . |
| 58 | Why do so many people want to take a long journey into that rather strange place that is known as Adland . |
| 59 | The humble fryer has come a long way since the days when it was little more than a heating element and a thermostat . |
| 60 | It showed that the junior had driven a long pin right through the patient 's brain . |