Example sentences of "[adv] come a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mota had already come a long way since her schooldays when she ran away with the city , area and national cross-country championships . |
| 2 | The passenger has always come a poor second to the operational integrity of the system . |
| 3 | Certainly there was every need for a road-widening scheme : four years earlier , in the October of 1793 , poor old Parson Woodforde had nearly come a nasty cropper on Frome Hill , when the chaise he was in had had an unfortunate encounter with a large ‘ heavily loaden ’ London waggon , complete with eight horses : |
| 4 | ‘ So how come a nice girl like you is trailing the streets of London beating up strangers under an assumed name ? ’ |
| 5 | But what I want to know is this — how come a Pakistani hot off the banana boat can get a mortgage when a decent cop with 25 years service in the force can not ? |
| 6 | We have indeed come a long way from 1882 , and can look forward to the challenge of the 1990s — the closer harmonisation of our concerns with those of other conservation bodies . |
| 7 | The SNP has indeed come a long way since Jim Sillars , as vice-president of the SNP , in a section of his Independence in Europe pamphlet ( June 1989 ) entitled ‘ The David Martin formula ’ , referred to Europe of the regions as a ‘ nebulous concept ’ . |
| 8 | It 's certainly come a long way from the upstairs room at the Albert . |
| 9 | We have certainly come a long way since Aristotle and Ptolemy , when we thought that the earth was the centre of the universe ! |
| 10 | ‘ Well , you 've certainly come a long way from the child who ran from me in that garden . ’ |
| 11 | Well , we 've certainly come a long way since Pliny 's day . |