Example sentences of "[noun] have come a " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | ‘ Eric has come a long way since then , ’ said McAllister . |
| 33 | From France has come a striker , Jean-Pierre Papin , a former ‘ best European player ’ . |
| 34 | The Duttons had come a hundred years before to the long straggling village of Sherborne in the archaically beautiful Borne Valley , where Thomas Dutton had built the original house of Sherborne Park in 1551 . |
| 35 | Man had come a long , long way from his hominoid ancestry . |
| 36 | With the Scottish interests had come a stake in Border TV , which Lonrho kept . |
| 37 | That newspapers had come a long way in the interim period was beyond doubt ; that they were to travel even further was to be confirmed by the manner in which the Cadburys disposed of the News Chronicle in 1960 . |
| 38 | Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 . |
| 39 | Curtain hardware has come a long way since the days of the narrow brass rod and rings . |
| 40 | MacMillan has come a long way since 1963 but Hermanas can still grip when done as well as this . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | With this effort to deploy support for the arts in New York has come a proliferation of arts alliances , organizations and advisory committee . |
| 43 | But with understanding had come a growing determination that she would never fall into the same trap — would never allow herself to be ruled by a foolish , hoping heart . |
| 44 | Rufus had come a long way since the Goblander days and the car he got into to drive himself to the hospital he attended two mornings a week was a Mercedes , not yet a year old . |
| 45 | Simulators have come a long way in recent years and today many of them use screen addressing to update the information . |
| 46 | Into this situation have come a few rude intrusions . |
| 47 | So both groups had come a similar distance in the sense of having the indications that there was something interesting to pursue further . |
| 48 | Contemporary psychology has come a long way from the time when J. B. Watson , the first behaviourist , forbade the consideration of non-observable entities . |
| 49 | BED and Breakfast has come a long way since the days when fearsome dragon landladies belched fire and brimstone over their terrified guests . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | Surprisingly , out of this mish-mash has come a positive development , in which the public sector institutions are giving the idea of ‘ an academic community ’ a completely new reality . |
| 52 | AIR travel has come a long way at Aldergrove since the first wide-eyed civilian passengers flew there 30 years ago . |
| 53 | Today the Garrett manufacturing vase shows the company to have come a long way from the first detectors built on the garage bench . |
| 54 | There were other reasons for insecurity , too : no matter how much material prosperity had come a family 's way , there was still every chance that illness or a premature death might send them all back down a snake at a much faster speed than they had been able to climb up a ladder . |
| 55 | The Carolingians had come a long way from the single ancestral beer-hall : the chief officers would invite groups of the young men to their houses ( mansiones ) for dinner , " not to encourage gluttony , but for the sake of promoting true rapport ; and rarely would a week go by without each [ youth ] receiving one such invitation from someone " . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | 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 ? |
| 58 | In the event , the announcement was premature ; but fusion researchers have come a long way since then |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | 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 . |