Example sentences of "[noun prp] has [verb] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clough has waited a long time for a decent run to establish himself after more than two years as squad makeweight . |
| 2 | Afghanistan has had a long history of neutrality and non-alignment which Soviet leaders have assiduously fostered . |
| 3 | Ayrshire has had a long association with the aeroplane , mainly centred on Prestwick Airport and the companies which have built aircraft on the site . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Joyce Barker has had a long association with Trinity Mill and recalls that the gearing was so light and precise that , even as a child of five , she could easily control the milling process and the sack hoist ! |
| 6 | The loss of Davies to Widnes last January has cast a long shadow over British rugby . |
| 7 | Kapil has advanced a long way since he burst onto the international scene in the late 1970s . |
| 8 | Geldof has come a long way since his first single with the Boomtown Rats , a hymn to selfishness called Looking After Number One . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Northwich-Winsford in mid-Cheshire has had a long record of stable employment provided by companies like ICI and Foden . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Eric has come a long way since then , ’ said McAllister . |
| 13 | MacMillan has come a long way since 1963 but Hermanas can still grip when done as well as this . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |