Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ICI has introduced a new way of recycling toxic waste by processing it through seven reed beds planted next to one of Europe 's largest chemical plants at Billingham , Teeside . |
| 2 | ICI has found a successful way of dealing with this waste without causing any harm to the public in the form of emissions from incineration , so perhaps there is good news to come . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The CNAA had come a long way since 1964 : ‘ from being a shy bureaucracy it has become an important and an innovatory force in higher education ’ . |
| 5 | Washington had come a long way from the converted house of 1835 , the charmingly simple Italianate villa of 1851 , or even the pleasingly revivalist Baltimore and Potomac of 1873–7 . |
| 6 | Gemma 's got a long way to go before she gets to eighty |
| 7 | Teclis was stronger now , the potions of the Loremasters had gone a long way towards giving him mortal strength . |
| 8 | Phil 's got a long way to go actually |
| 9 | TV 'S Bread stars Jean Boht and Jonathon Morris have found a new way of earning a crust — on stage together . |
| 10 | Kapil has advanced a long way since he burst onto the international scene in the late 1970s . |
| 11 | Geldof has come a long way since his first single with the Boomtown Rats , a hymn to selfishness called Looking After Number One . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Meanwhile over at The Theatre in Chipping Norton Mother Goose has found a novel way of beating the recession . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Eric has come a long way since then , ’ said McAllister . |
| 16 | Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 . |
| 17 | VICE cops in Italy have found a novel way to stop kerb-crawlers . |
| 18 | This is a bit odd cos Banbury 's got a long way to travel |
| 19 | Scientists in France have found a new way to bring the past back to life . |
| 20 | MacMillan has come a long way since 1963 but Hermanas can still grip when done as well as this . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Since it is the consistent policy of successive UK governments to support ICAO , and ICAO has advocated a particular way in which aircraft accident reports should be written , it seems obvious that the appropriate regulations should require commissioners of public inquiries to follow the practice that is universally acknowledged as sound and practical . |
| 25 | By the 1680s the old-fashioned cavalry of the pomeshchiks had disappeared as an independent force , the streltsy were restricted to internal policing duties , and Muscovy had gone a long way towards establishing a professional army . |