Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [verb] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ We 've come a long way since the U.2 fiasco . ’ |
| 32 | In situations where tempers are getting raised , we can stand back and make everyone aware of what is happening and the effect on progress : ‘ We all seem to be getting very heated about this , and we 've come a long way from the main issue . |
| 33 | H'eye tech — mascara is the one make-up item few women would be without and we 've come a long way since the days of mascaras that smudged or flaked around the eyes . |
| 34 | We 've come a long way — with everyday improvements such as … |
| 35 | We 've come a long way from the free-standing stove with four burners and an oven with maybe a separate grill or broiler . |
| 36 | We 've come a long way since a 1953 bride-to-be wrote a despairing plea to a weekly magazine for someone to offer a more varied menu than cold ham , salad and trifle for her wedding breakfast . |
| 37 | It does n't need me to say that we 've got a long way to go . |
| 38 | If we can achieve this , we have gone a long way towards solving the axe typology problem since groups of similarly shaped axes would appear as distinct clusters on the page and could be easily identified by eye . |
| 39 | Certainly we have gone a long way to improve the ‘ traditional ’ British Rail sandwich . ’ |
| 40 | We have travelled a long way from the traditional " dualist " and " monist " views of style outlined in Chapter 1 . |
| 41 | We have travelled a long way from the original accelerationist hypothesis as set out in Friedman 's Presidential Address . |
| 42 | Truly , we have travelled a long way from the high hopes and higher hyperbole of the 1980s , when inward investment offered a fast-track escape route from a crumbling manufacturing base . |
| 43 | What follows may suggest that we have moved a long way from the consideration of reading . |
| 44 | Will my hon. Friend please comment on the cost of that and on the fact that , 50 years after the Beveridge report , we have moved a long way from the principle of paying into the kitty through insurance before being allowed to draw out of it ? |
| 45 | ‘ We have to go a long way south before we get to Alaska , ’ he said . |
| 46 | If electric cars are going to have a significant future , we have to find a cleaner way to generate electricity . " |
| 47 | Quite by accident we have found a good way to trapping earwigs . |
| 48 | We have come a long way . |
| 49 | We have come a long way since the idealism of Lord Devlin — and that was only twenty years ago . |
| 50 | We have come a long way since then , and one of the greatest stresses in the world today is loneliness . |
| 51 | There are still many gaps , but we have come a long way . |
| 52 | We have come a long way since then , thanks to the vast amount of public investment over the last century . |
| 53 | We have come a long way since then , writes Dr David Breeze , Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments . |
| 54 | We have come a long way in this preliminary discussion without saying anything about what actually counts as data in the social sciences . |
| 55 | We have come a long way since the days of the ice cream van and the Medau tunic . |
| 56 | ‘ We demonstrated that we have come a long way since our first game in Zimbabwe . |
| 57 | Liz Brookes , from the Dyslexia Institute , said : ‘ We have come a long way during the last year and progress is being made , but it is not enough . |
| 58 | But for more complicated molecules we need to have a systematic way of working out how many of the molecular vibrations will be active . |
| 59 | While the criticisms outlined above do not obviate the necessity of some nativistic assumptions , they do suggest a different way of addressing the problem . |
| 60 | ‘ I hope they 've gone a long way , ’ said Pascoe . |