Example sentences of "[noun] have come a " in BNC.

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1 VICTIM SUPPORT has come a long way from the six-month experiment set up 10 years ago by a group of concerned professionals in Bristol .
2 Lovers of freedom throughout the world looked to this vision with hope and it is with profound sadness that they see the vision momentarily dimmed , and with this dimming has come a confusion of purpose and a sense of despair that was never known before in America .
3 The industry has come a long way since the day 's of men selling cornets from the back of bicycles .
4 One-room living has come a long way from the old bed-sitter image with its general note of poverty and desperation .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Mr Fallon said : ‘ The Dyslexia Institute has come a long way since 1973 and has raised the profile of dyslexia in the country .
8 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 ’ .
9 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 .
10 And he admitted this was n't the first time his feet had come a cropper .
11 The Inspirals have come a long way from 1989 's full-tilt three-minute organ romp early days .
12 Viruses have come a heck of a long way since we last took an in-depth look at anti-virus software back in November 1990 .
13 Wintec and Thorowgood saddles have come a long way since early designs and Thorowgood also make wipe-clean bridles that look smart enough for most occasions .
14 But the industrial robot has come a long way since the early sixties when Joe Engelberger set up Unimation , the world 's first industrial robot making company .
15 Air refuelling has come a long way from the first attempts in the thirties where the co-pilot literally popped out and grabbed the hose .
16 Foinavon had come a remote fourth in the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park the previous December but few disputed that his starting price in the Grand National was a true reflection of his chance .
17 DANDELIONS have come a long way in Darlington .
18 Geldof has come a long way since his first single with the Boomtown Rats , a hymn to selfishness called Looking After Number One .
19 Anna has come a long way from the Romanian orphanage where she spent the first two years of her life , a malnourished , incontinent infant with a shaven head .
20 DURHAM Squash Club 's challenge for the Durham and Cleveland First Division championships has come a catastrophic cropper .
21 It sounds like the Fire Service has come a long way from the early years .
22 Though they have done well in Germany and Belgium ( they now own one-tenth of all the office space in Brussels ) , Swedish investors have come a cropper in London .
23 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 .
24 Joy to the world — the Lord has come a .
25 With improvements in educational technologies , more detailed understanding of how behaviour is controlled and developed , and a greater focus on curriculum planning has come a flood of new opportunities for people with learning difficulties .
26 The humble fryer has come a long way since the days when it was little more than a heating element and a thermostat .
27 We made ball and roller bearings for the car trade , the car trade had come a slump and the car trade to this day does n't want one bearing or one detail for a car until it 's ready to put it on a car .
28 Of course photographic techniques HAVE come a long way since Ponting 's day .
29 ‘ The dog 's come a long way , ’ said another man .
30 ‘ The players , myself and the staff have come a long way together and are not about to let all the hard work go down the drain . ’
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