Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] 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 | Mr Fallon said : ‘ The Dyslexia Institute has come a long way since 1973 and has raised the profile of dyslexia in the country . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It sounds like the Fire Service has come a long way from the early years . |
| 11 | American Pentecostalism has travelled a long way from its roots in the southern states . |
| 12 | The humble fryer has come a long way since the days when it was little more than a heating element and a thermostat . |
| 13 | ‘ The dog 's come a long way , ’ said another man . |
| 14 | I think the Home Secretary has gone a long way to meet many anxieties which were expressed |
| 15 | Curtain hardware has come a long way since the days of the narrow brass rod and rings . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Yet by the time Gorbachev became General Secretary in 1985 , the historical profession had advanced a long way from the crudities of Stalin 's era . |
| 18 | Contemporary psychology has come a long way from the time when J. B. Watson , the first behaviourist , forbade the consideration of non-observable entities . |
| 19 | Fortunately , our neutering scheme has gone a long way to alleviating this problem . ’ |
| 20 | BED and Breakfast has come a long way since the days when fearsome dragon landladies belched fire and brimstone over their terrified guests . |
| 21 | AIR travel has come a long way at Aldergrove since the first wide-eyed civilian passengers flew there 30 years ago . |
| 22 | Today the Garrett manufacturing vase shows the company to have come a long way from the first detectors built on the garage bench . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Microscopy has come a long way since the 1670s when Antonie van Leewenhoek used his relatively crude instruments to see for the first time the bacteria that inhabit worlds normally hidden from the naked eye . |
| 26 | Er psychiatry has come a long way and er certain diagnostic st studies and diagnostic tests are taken of the individual erm and the doctors conclude whether or not the the work contributed to the problem or not . |
| 27 | Imaging technology has come a long way in the last few years and there are currently available several Imaging systems which in theory could integrate with Council Tax software . |
| 28 | Packaging technology has come a long way since the founder opened his first shop in 1869 , and the requirements of today 's customer are very different from those of the Victorian housewife . |
| 29 | For example , supposing you want to refer to the fact that the groom is a medical student and you have a story about a king dying in the Middle Ages who says the physician has killed him , tell this story but end it , ‘ Of course medicine has come a long way since those days , . |
| 30 | By the middle of the fourth century , Christianity had gone a long way towards assimilating the dominant culture of pagan Romans . |