Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj] way [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 For the 30-year-old air liaison officer with the British force in the Croatian port of Split has introduced a novel way to get around .
2 This minor impediment for the flanker is just sufficient to allow a fraction more time and space for the half-back to get things moving and has gone a long way to assist in opening the game up .
3 I think the Home Secretary has gone a long way to meet many anxieties which were expressed
4 The addition of the words " The Editor " are still not going to solve the problem , since the editor of a national Newspaper is hardly likely to be interested in the launch a new kettle or the fact that your organisation has discovered a new way to process cheese !
5 I listened with fascination to this insider viewpoint , and the moody Miss Brickell suddenly became a real person , not a pathetic collection of dry bones , but a mixed-up pulsating young woman full of strong urges and stronger guilts who 'd piled on too much pressure , loaded her need of penitence and her heavy desires and perhaps finally her pregnancy onto someone who could n't bear it all , and who 'd seen a violent way to escape her .
6 ‘ You would have to go a long way to see a better game than that .
7 If I could have seen a respectable way to dismiss this appeal I should have been happy to do so .
8 And I think it w w was quite difficult for people because they 'd either have to walk a long way to try and make a telephone call .
9 If she had said no he would have had a long way to jump .
10 Although you might have driven a long way to get there , do n't put yourself into a situation you ca n't handle .
11 Japan seemed to have invented a new way to create ultra-cheap money .
12 ‘ You 've come a long way to do just that . ’
13 I 've come a long way to make a reconciliation with him , and I do n't want interference from some snooty cocktail waitress .
14 ‘ I 've got a long way to go before I 'm thirty , ’ she 'd say .
15 You 've got a long way to go before you can set up on your own .
16 As I say you 've er , you 've got a long way to go , okay , fine thank you .
17 mm , I 've got a long way to go yet then have I ?
18 It does n't need me to say that we 've got a long way to go .
19 You 've got a long way to travel .
20 Then the Bishop firmly gripped the King 's tunic round his chest and shook it violently , saying again , " You owe me a kiss because I have come a long way to see you . "
21 He 's got a long way to go home , ’ said Ray Shepherd quietly .
22 The birth was on July 1st and at 7 lb 7 oz he 's got a long way to go to catch up to dad .
23 Gemma 's got a long way to go before she gets to eighty
24 Phil 's got a long way to go actually
25 He 's got a long way to go to find it .
26 This is a bit odd cos Banbury 's got a long way to travel
27 Scientists in France have found a new way to bring the past back to life .
28 Second , by embracing collective entrepreneurship , the Japanese especially have found a different way to achieve competitive advantage while maintaining high real wages .
29 VICE cops in Italy have found a novel way to stop kerb-crawlers .
30 Certainly we have gone a long way to improve the ‘ traditional ’ British Rail sandwich . ’
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