Example sentences of "have come a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You 've come a long way for a late-night drink . ’ |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | We 've come a long way from the free-standing stove with four burners and an oven with maybe a separate grill or broiler . |
| 34 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 35 | You 've come a long way from Manchester to deal with that . |
| 36 | You 've come a long way in a short time . ’ |
| 37 | So both groups had come a similar distance in the sense of having the indications that there was something interesting to pursue further . |
| 38 | Bazin , 60 , a former World Bank economist , had been the candidate of the right-wing Movement for the Establishment of Democracy in Haiti ( MIDH ) in the presidential elections of December 1990 [ see pp. 37911-12 ] , when he had come a distant second behind Aristide . |
| 39 | He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial . |
| 40 | He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster . |
| 41 | Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 . |
| 42 | 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 ’ . |
| 43 | ‘ They had come a long way from a meeting in the very early days when Sunil Desai , Jayaben 's son and then secretary of the strike committee , had suggested that the men do the picketing and the women make the tea . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland . |
| 46 | The Carolingians had come a long way from the single ancestral beer-hall : the chief officers would invite groups of the young men to their houses ( mansiones ) for dinner , " not to encourage gluttony , but for the sake of promoting true rapport ; and rarely would a week go by without each [ youth ] receiving one such invitation from someone " . |
| 47 | That newspapers had come a long way in the interim period was beyond doubt ; that they were to travel even further was to be confirmed by the manner in which the Cadburys disposed of the News Chronicle in 1960 . |
| 48 | Then she saw how the Oxo boy on the advertisement hoarding smiled and she realized that they had come a different way by a different route and that she was nearly at Mrs Parvis 's boarding house . |
| 49 | But , ’ he continued seriously , ‘ I do see danger for you and I also feel sorry , as you have come a long way for nothing . ’ |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | The Social Democrats have come a long way since the early 1980s when , newly tossed into opposition , the party was crippled by defeatism . |
| 52 | 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 ! |
| 53 | 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 ) . |
| 54 | We have come a long way since the idealism of Lord Devlin — and that was only twenty years ago . |
| 55 | In the event , the announcement was premature ; but fusion researchers have come a long way since then |
| 56 | We have come a long way since then , and one of the greatest stresses in the world today is loneliness . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | We have come a long way since then , thanks to the vast amount of public investment over the last century . |
| 59 | Spices certainly have come a long way since their early days , when they were a rare commodity and it was considered an honour to receive them as a gift . |
| 60 | We have come a long way since then , writes Dr David Breeze , Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments . |