Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [verb] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed the latest text has gone a long way towards meeting the UK 's objections . ’ |
| 2 | VICTIM SUPPORT has come a long way from the six-month experiment set up 10 years ago by a group of concerned professionals in Bristol . |
| 3 | As most of you will know , Queens Park has had a long standing partnership with the Baptist Church in Doolay Falls near Wichita , Kansas . |
| 4 | Such a measure has taken a long time to appear . |
| 5 | Clough has waited a long time for a decent run to establish himself after more than two years as squad makeweight . |
| 6 | The industry has come a long way since the day 's of men selling cornets from the back of bicycles . |
| 7 | Afghanistan has had a long history of neutrality and non-alignment which Soviet leaders have assiduously fostered . |
| 8 | Ayrshire has had a long association with the aeroplane , mainly centred on Prestwick Airport and the companies which have built aircraft on the site . |
| 9 | One-room living has come a long way from the old bed-sitter image with its general note of poverty and desperation . |
| 10 | And in fact patient research has gone a long way towards resolving this knotty problem . |
| 11 | The pyramid has taken a long time to crumble . |
| 12 | ‘ Chopper an' Frankie 's got a long walk 'ome , ’ Tony said . |
| 13 | Cuba has gone a long way to reducing gender inequalities , though power relations still clearly favour men , a fact of which all Cubans , including their leaders , are very aware . |
| 14 | But once again this ‘ temporary ’ extension of power and influence has lasted a long time , and the relative weighting of Diet , Cabinet , Bureaucracy and Judiciary remains a debated issue . |
| 15 | Joyce Barker has had a long association with Trinity Mill and recalls that the gearing was so light and precise that , even as a child of five , she could easily control the milling process and the sack hoist ! |
| 16 | Mr Fallon said : ‘ The Dyslexia Institute has come a long way since 1973 and has raised the profile of dyslexia in the country . |
| 17 | The loss of Davies to Widnes last January has cast a long shadow over British rugby . |
| 18 | Gemma 's got a long way to go before she gets to eighty |
| 19 | The Community has gone a long way towards achieving that central purpose ; towards taming nationalism without suppressing patriotism ; towards sharing sovereignty without destroying nations ; and towards putting the magic of markets to work for society in a stable democratic setting . |
| 20 | If that means sterling has to have a long leave of absence , judicial separation or divorce from the ERM , so be it . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Sound does travel a long way , does n't it ? |
| 24 | Phil 's got a long way to go actually |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Kapil has advanced a long way since he burst onto the international scene in the late 1970s . |
| 27 | Geldof has come a long way since his first single with the Boomtown Rats , a hymn to selfishness called Looking After Number One . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |