Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [vb pp] a long [noun] " in BNC.

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31 Teclis was stronger now , the potions of the Loremasters had gone a long way towards giving him mortal strength .
32 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 .
33 Phil 's got a long way to go actually
34 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 .
35 DANDELIONS have come a long way in Darlington .
36 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 .
37 The Thatcher governments have gone a long way towards puncturing claims about the power of the unions .
38 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 .
39 Kapil has advanced a long way since he burst onto the international scene in the late 1970s .
40 Geldof has come a long way since his first single with the Boomtown Rats , a hymn to selfishness called Looking After Number One .
41 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 .
42 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 .
43 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 .
44 Northwich-Winsford in mid-Cheshire has had a long record of stable employment provided by companies like ICI and Foden .
45 It sounds like the Fire Service has come a long way from the early years .
46 Miss Lodsworth had had a long day .
47 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
48 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 .
49 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 .
50 American Pentecostalism has travelled a long way from its roots in the southern states .
51 The humble fryer has come a long way since the days when it was little more than a heating element and a thermostat .
52 It showed that the junior had driven a long pin right through the patient 's brain .
53 It was St Patrick 's Night , 1912 , and Sergeant O'Neil had had a long day , what with the parade and all .
54 Of course photographic techniques HAVE come a long way since Ponting 's day .
55 ‘ The dog 's come a long way , ’ said another man .
56 ‘ The players , myself and the staff have come a long way together and are not about to let all the hard work go down the drain . ’
57 This union has got a long history of , this union 's got a long history of amalgamations , some conducted more successfully than others .
58 If we wish to measure the past in terms of life-expectancy , poverty , ignorance , disease , education , comfort and leisure , then there is no doubt that the modern world in the West has come a long way .
59 Eric has come a long way since then , ’ said McAllister .
60 I think the Home Secretary has gone a long way to meet many anxieties which were expressed
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