Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adv] long way " in BNC.
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1 | To leap from this standpoint to the assumption that we have an everlasting soul is to leap a very long way — probably too far . |
2 | He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat ! |
3 | Well Ivan has brought along this harp which is actually an Irish harp which has come a very long way . |
4 | He 's come a very long way to see what you 've got to say as well as hear the stories . |
5 | She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge the fact that she had come a very long way since those days when she had been a thin , gawky adolescent . |
6 | Joint Planning , it seems to me , still has a very long way to go . |
7 | However , the volume of research varies considerably from one polytechnic to another and , in general , it has a very long way to go before it begins to approach that generated within universities . |
8 | England seem to have come an awfully long way simply to discover that it 's a small world , and the Irish did not need reminding about Murphy 's Law . |
9 | As far as Paul and Granville are concerned , they 've already come an unfeasibly long way since they got together a couple of years ago at college in Derby . |
10 | Microlights take a bit of getting used to ( 1,000 feet looks an awfully long way down ) , but they are marvellous viewing platforms . |
11 | And that , in 1957 , seemed a very long way off . |
12 | The two miles to Casterbridge seemed a very long way to the woman , who was tired and ill . |
13 | Leasing obviously still has its dedicated followers , but like many other sectors the boom years of the mid-1980s now look a very long way away . |
14 | For a moment I toyed with the idea of getting back to the ship , lifting off and going a comfortingly long way away . |
15 | So far , we 've actually managed to characterise about 1600 of that 50,000 and so we 've got a very long way to go . |
16 | That 's still got an awful long way to go . |
17 | And I 'm afraid that as all I 've seen is one miscalculated mishap after another you 've got an awful long way to go before I 'm convinced of anything . |
18 | It looked as if we 'd travelled a very long way to get nowhere . |
19 | By the time Siward 's army had reached the plains by the Forth , it would have marched a very long way , and suffered fighting , and would be drawn , in any case , only from those regions Siward was master of , for neither Wessex nor Mercia , it was sure , would waste men on extending Northumbria 's empire . |
20 | What I 'm saying here is that , if you fancy one , it should be checked out carefully in the shop before parting with the ready folding , even though , for the price , you 'd have to go a very long way to beat it . |
21 | You 'll have to go a very long way to find a series of more disparaging , gloom laden , negative reports , and this , in a season when Linfield 's performances actually won them the league ! |
22 | Essential oils are not always cheap , especially rose and neroli , but because they are highly concentrated , in use a little goes a very long way . |
23 | This combination of a strictly limited set of measures , and their application only to new housing , goes a very long way to explaining why public ignorance of these matters is so widespread in Britain . |
24 | Well , all I can say is , it is something of which a very small amount goes a very long way . " |
25 | Unfortunately a very little amount of oil goes a very long way , ’ he said . |
26 | ‘ I flung my arms round her and we walked the very long way to the terminal in the pouring rain and it did n't matter at all . ’ |
27 | ‘ I suppose you could always take a very long way round . ’ |
28 | With the Enterprise alone likely to cost over $1 thousand million , its entry into mining seems a very long way off . |
29 | The news that she had in fact been successful in her interview went a very long way to ease her bruised feelings — so much so that when the day dawned when she was to start her new job she almost forgot to pull her hair back into a screwed-up knot , and to don her glasses . |
30 | Now that it was over Edward seemed to have gone a very long way away from her , as if she was no more than a stranger to whom he was giving a lift . |