Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [verb] a [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 The only difficulty you might face is in getting the right look — doors that match the style of your house — but manufacturers have come a long way from the early aluminium-framed types , and a range of styles is now available .
2 But manufacturers have come a long way from the aluminium-framed picture windows that disfigured so many homes in the early days of the replacement window boom , and a wide range of window styles is now available .
3 The Inspirals have come a long way from 1989 's full-tilt three-minute organ romp early days .
4 Wintec and Thorowgood saddles have come a long way since early designs and Thorowgood also make wipe-clean bridles that look smart enough for most occasions .
5 DANDELIONS have come a long way in Darlington .
6 The Thatcher governments have gone a long way towards puncturing claims about the power of the unions .
7 TV 'S Bread stars Jean Boht and Jonathon Morris have found a new way of earning a crust — on stage together .
8 Hard-hit farmers have discovered a new way to make money … by turning their fields into racing circuits .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Of course photographic techniques HAVE come a long way since Ponting 's day .
12 ‘ 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 . ’
13 VICE cops in Italy have found a novel way to stop kerb-crawlers .
14 Salmon have to find a safe way upstream past bears , and monkeys have to get to the fruit without waking the jaguars .
15 JAPANESE scientists have discovered a new way of dating the fossils of crustaceans and animals by measuring changes in an amino acid called isoleucine .
16 And in Israel , scientists have discovered a new way of producing an anti-clotting agent for use during surgery — simply by milking the ordinary leech .
17 Scientists in France have found a new way to bring the past back to life .
18 Simulators have come a long way in recent years and today many of them use screen addressing to update the information .
19 The transactions completed to date have gone a considerable way towards achieving these objectives .
20 First we felt that women have come a long way given the very radical and novel nature of their demands to enter public life as individuals in their own right .
21 Well , there are all kinds of cures , from yoga to yodelling , but employees of Oxfordshire Social Services have discovered a new way of shedding the cares of the day .
22 A long time in the dark and he d have to go a long way round if he was n't to upset the sheep and alert Jack .
23 Microwave ovens have come a long way since they first appeared in our kitchens about 20 years ago , but how do you know which type will suit your style of cooking ?
24 In the event , the announcement was premature ; but fusion researchers have come a long way since then
25 So , how does the G M B best get over the message to the mem non- members because unions have progressed a long way since our founder , Will Thorne , collected subs in a bucket .
26 THE greeting cards , gift wrap and stationery people T&A Thompson Cards have come a long way since it all began for them in a garage about 15 years ago — they have just opened a superb new outlet in the Ravenhill Business Park .
27 Our cosmetics and toiletries have come a long way since the days when Elizabeth I used highly toxic lead powder to whiten and enhance her complexion !
28 Fainting goats have come a long way since the days when farmers used them as decoys to protect herds of sheep from coyotes ( coyote arrives ; goat faints and is devoured ; sheep escape ) .
29 The Social Democrats have come a long way since the early 1980s when , newly tossed into opposition , the party was crippled by defeatism .
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