Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] a [adj] way [prep] " in BNC.

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1 While the criticisms outlined above do not obviate the necessity of some nativistic assumptions , they do suggest a different way of addressing the problem .
2 They 've come a long way since those days though — the soles of that pair were completely worn through after 400 miles walking in the Andes so that I ended up walking in my socks !
3 H'eye tech — mascara is the one make-up item few women would be without and we 've come a long way since the days of mascaras that smudged or flaked around the eyes .
4 You 've come a long way for a late-night drink . ’
5 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 .
6 We 've come a long way from the free-standing stove with four burners and an oven with maybe a separate grill or broiler .
7 ‘ 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 . ’
8 You 've come a long way from Manchester to deal with that .
9 You 've come a long way in a short time . ’
10 ‘ You 've got a nasty way of expressing yourself , d' you know that ?
11 You 've got a funny way of going on , I must say .
12 Doctors claim they 've found a new way of treating breast cancer which could save thousands of lives .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 I 've tried a few ways of getting it off her … offering to telephone for her and so on , thinking she might improve if that was off her mind … ‘
16 It will create interest in the foreground which I think is important and often , especially looking across water an expanse of water if you have n't got any interesting detail in the foreground yo you have to go a long way into the picture before it begins to get interesting .
17 All in all , they have travelled a long way since that night when Santos led a nervous band of campesinos , complete with a BBC camera crew , onto Doña Elsa 's cattle ranch .
18 We have travelled a long way from the traditional " dualist " and " monist " views of style outlined in Chapter 1 .
19 We have travelled a long way from the original accelerationist hypothesis as set out in Friedman 's Presidential Address .
20 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 .
21 But , ’ he continued seriously , ‘ I do see danger for you and I also feel sorry , as you have come a long way for nothing . ’
22 Liz Brookes , from the Dyslexia Institute , said : ‘ We have come a long way during the last year and progress is being made , but it is not enough .
23 The Social Democrats have come a long way since the early 1980s when , newly tossed into opposition , the party was crippled by defeatism .
24 Our cosmetics and toiletries have come a long way since the days when Elizabeth I used highly toxic lead powder to whiten and enhance her complexion !
25 Fainting goats have come a long way since the days when farmers used them as decoys to protect herds of sheep from coyotes ( coyote arrives ; goat faints and is devoured ; sheep escape ) .
26 We have come a long way since the idealism of Lord Devlin — and that was only twenty years ago .
27 In the event , the announcement was premature ; but fusion researchers have come a long way since then
28 We have come a long way since then , and one of the greatest stresses in the world today is loneliness .
29 And while the original Ethernet spec was a lowest-common-denominator approach , using the crudest cable and a distinctly modest data rate , things have come a long way since then .
30 We have come a long way since then , thanks to the vast amount of public investment over the last century .
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