Example sentences of "but [pers pn] have [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The majority of people were sympathetic , but we had a long way to go before people would be shouting ‘ Honte à la reine Britannique ’ in the streets . |
2 | Perhaps we are just beginning to see how the brain works , but we have a long way to go . |
3 | ‘ We have somewhere between £22,000 and £23,000 in the bank and there is cash still to come in , but we have a long way to go . ’ |
4 | Unfortunately , as this book points out , some of the alternatives may look good on paper but they have a long way to go before they can match the tokamak . |
5 | But they have a long way to recover . |
6 | He might have added : But he has a long memory for those that let him down . |
7 | But he has a long way to go to close down Sir Teddy 's 15,000 majority . |
8 | The nation-state is inevitably becoming weaker as power goes both up to Europe and down to regions and districts , but it has a long life yet , and the British people have many uses for it . |