Example sentences of "[noun] has [vb pp] a long 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 | The industry has come a long way since the day 's of men selling cornets from the back of bicycles . |
4 | One-room living has come a long way from the old bed-sitter image with its general note of poverty and desperation . |
5 | And in fact patient research has gone a long way towards resolving this knotty problem . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Mr Fallon said : ‘ The Dyslexia Institute has come a long way since 1973 and has raised the profile of dyslexia in the country . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Kapil has advanced a long way since he burst onto the international scene in the late 1970s . |
12 | Geldof has come a long way since his first single with the Boomtown Rats , a hymn to selfishness called Looking After Number One . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | It sounds like the Fire Service has come a long way from the early years . |
15 | American Pentecostalism has travelled a long way from its roots in the southern states . |
16 | The humble fryer has come a long way since the days when it was little more than a heating element and a thermostat . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | ‘ Eric has come a long way since then , ’ said McAllister . |
19 | I think the Home Secretary has gone a long way to meet many anxieties which were expressed |
20 | Curtain hardware has come a long way since the days of the narrow brass rod and rings . |
21 | MacMillan has come a long way since 1963 but Hermanas can still grip when done as well as this . |
22 | Even if men 's fashion has come a long way since the Sixties , the overwhelming inspiration , Cerruti concedes , is still the archetypal English businessman 's suit . |
23 | Contemporary psychology has come a long way from the time when J. B. Watson , the first behaviourist , forbade the consideration of non-observable entities . |
24 | Fortunately , our neutering scheme has gone a long way to alleviating this problem . ’ |
25 | BED and Breakfast has come a long way since the days when fearsome dragon landladies belched fire and brimstone over their terrified guests . |
26 | Interviewing him in his office in the Department of Transport , an ugly high-rise building that has the compensation of a superb panorama of London , dominated by Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament , it is hard to avoid the conclusion that MacGregor has moved a long way up the greasy pole . |
27 | There is no gainsaying the fact that London-born Eleanor Bowen has come a long way since her last exhibition at the Durham Art Gallery some eight years ago . |
28 | AIR travel has come a long way at Aldergrove since the first wide-eyed civilian passengers flew there 30 years ago . |
29 | Tank decor has come a long way in recent years from the garish backdrop , and the odd lump of rock with a few dying plants . |
30 | Whitham has come a long way from April 16 , 1988 when he won the Enkalon 1,000cc race and became one of the few English riders to score at Kirkistown at that time . |