Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [verb] a [adj] way " 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 | For the 30-year-old air liaison officer with the British force in the Croatian port of Split has introduced a novel way to get around . |
| 4 | ICI has introduced a new way of recycling toxic waste by processing it through seven reed beds planted next to one of Europe 's largest chemical plants at Billingham , Teeside . |
| 5 | ICI has found a successful way of dealing with this waste without causing any harm to the public in the form of emissions from incineration , so perhaps there is good news to come . |
| 6 | The industry has come a long way since the day 's of men selling cornets from the back of bicycles . |
| 7 | One-room living has come a long way from the old bed-sitter image with its general note of poverty and desperation . |
| 8 | And in fact patient research has gone a long way towards resolving this knotty problem . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mr Fallon said : ‘ The Dyslexia Institute has come a long way since 1973 and has raised the profile of dyslexia in the country . |
| 11 | Gemma 's got a long way to go before she gets to eighty |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | An inventor has developed a high-flying way of scaring birds away from growing crops . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Sound does travel a long way , does n't it ? |
| 17 | Phil 's got a long way to go actually |
| 18 | Kapil has advanced a long way since he burst onto the international scene in the late 1970s . |
| 19 | Geldof has come a long way since his first single with the Boomtown Rats , a hymn to selfishness called Looking After Number One . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The addition of the words " The Editor " are still not going to solve the problem , since the editor of a national Newspaper is hardly likely to be interested in the launch a new kettle or the fact that your organisation has discovered a new way to process cheese ! |
| 22 | It sounds like the Fire Service has come a long way from the early years . |
| 23 | American Pentecostalism has travelled a long way from its roots in the southern states . |
| 24 | Meanwhile over at The Theatre in Chipping Norton Mother Goose has found a novel way of beating the recession . |
| 25 | The humble fryer has come a long way since the days when it was little more than a heating element and a thermostat . |
| 26 | Sometimes a girl is in conflict with her culture or religion in how she wants to dress and express herself , as Sneha ( Chapter 7 ) describes ; sometimes a young woman enjoys dressing a certain way but discovers that there are prejudices and stereotypes about the way she wants to look ; conflicts that might come from within , or from her family , her job , or the outside world . |
| 27 | ‘ The dog 's come a long way , ’ said another man . |
| 28 | I mean , you can go along and always think ‘ Oh there 's nothing to this ’ , but then for some reason or other somebody has a complaint 's gone a big way round and ends up right at the top , and then , of course cascading down comes the ‘ Why ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ Eric has come a long way since then , ’ said McAllister . |