Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] a long [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | In situations where tempers are getting raised , we can stand back and make everyone aware of what is happening and the effect on progress : ‘ We all seem to be getting very heated about this , and we 've come a long way from the main issue . |
| 2 | We 've come a long way from the free-standing stove with four burners and an oven with maybe a separate grill or broiler . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't doubt it , Seb , you 've come a long way from the poor , sickly boy who arrived here from London only a couple of years ago . ’ |
| 4 | You 've come a long way from Manchester to deal with that . |
| 5 | " So ? " she said , " You 've had a long holiday from the kiddies . " |
| 6 | But sh sh sure they can succ succ they can succeed in creating capitalism , it , it it , it might succeed in paving the way for new China 's industrialization but we 've gone a long way from any any ideological position , we 've gone a long way from well what is in the best material benefiting class of the poor peasant now the poor peasant is not gon na get very much out of this . |
| 7 | But sh sh sure they can succ succ they can succeed in creating capitalism , it , it it , it might succeed in paving the way for new China 's industrialization but we 've gone a long way from any any ideological position , we 've gone a long way from well what is in the best material benefiting class of the poor peasant now the poor peasant is not gon na get very much out of this . |
| 8 | a matter will be er that we going to fight er , easily er so I mean i , it meant that the er , that er er some more should be brought out so that it er does er adhere to what er these er er government departments er expect as a response rather than er er as this considered issue raising er , we can er facilitate that er quite er easily but er I think er the the main point is what Hugh has said , that er we opposed it because it 's not going to help in my view it 's not going to help er the patients , the patients are not going to come off any better as a result of er , these er er what I would say and I feel and er the , I I I 'd like to know what er the GP 's think about cos GP 's usually erm er , advise their patients if they have to wait a long time from one hospital , they would advise them to go into London and er , if that 's been stopped as been er that 's been stated erm then erm , er the GP 's are not going to feel very happy about their patients er , getting er erm a lesser service . |
| 9 | We have travelled a long way from the traditional " dualist " and " monist " views of style outlined in Chapter 1 . |
| 10 | We have travelled a long way from the original accelerationist hypothesis as set out in Friedman 's Presidential Address . |
| 11 | Truly , we have travelled a long way from the high hopes and higher hyperbole of the 1980s , when inward investment offered a fast-track escape route from a crumbling manufacturing base . |
| 12 | The only difficulty you might face is in getting the right look — doors that match the style of your house — but manufacturers have come a long way from the early aluminium-framed types , and a range of styles is now available . |
| 13 | The Inspirals have come a long way from 1989 's full-tilt three-minute organ romp early days . |
| 14 | But manufacturers have come a long way from the aluminium-framed picture windows that disfigured so many homes in the early days of the replacement window boom , and a wide range of window styles is now available . |
| 15 | What follows may suggest that we have moved a long way from the consideration of reading . |
| 16 | Will my hon. Friend please comment on the cost of that and on the fact that , 50 years after the Beveridge report , we have moved a long way from the principle of paying into the kitty through insurance before being allowed to draw out of it ? |
| 17 | But I have gone a long way from my original fine lace and the number of strokes of the lace carriage . |