Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 31 | Whitham has come a long way from April 16 , 1988 when he won the Enkalon 1,000cc race and became one of the few English riders to score at Kirkistown at that time . |
| 32 | Jamie Whitham : has come a long way since Kirkistown back in 1988 . |
| 33 | Tupperware , it seems , has come a long way . |
| 34 | There is no gainsaying the fact that London-born Eleanor Bowen has come a long way since her last exhibition at the Durham Art Gallery some eight years ago . |
| 35 | Mr Fallon said : ‘ The Dyslexia Institute has come a long way since 1973 and has raised the profile of dyslexia in the country . |
| 36 | Either way he has come a long way in a very short time , especially for someone who left journalism for PR at the age of 22 after failing to break into daily newspapers . |
| 37 | It sounds like the Fire Service has come a long way from the early years . |
| 38 | Er psychiatry has come a long way and er certain diagnostic st studies and diagnostic tests are taken of the individual erm and the doctors conclude whether or not the the work contributed to the problem or not . |
| 39 | The former RAF engineer , of Eskdale , Skelmersdale , has come a long way since 1982 when he suffered a serious heart attack and his health then gradually deteriorated to the point where surgeons at Wythenshawe Hospital , Manchester , eventually decided that a heart transplant was Mr Brownrigg 's only chance . |
| 40 | Packaging technology has come a long way since the founder opened his first shop in 1869 , and the requirements of today 's customer are very different from those of the Victorian housewife . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | Interviewing him in his office in the Department of Transport , an ugly high-rise building that has the compensation of a superb panorama of London , dominated by Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament , it is hard to avoid the conclusion that MacGregor has moved a long way up the greasy pole . |
| 43 | Kapil has advanced a long way since he burst onto the international scene in the late 1970s . |
| 44 | ICI has introduced a new way of recycling toxic waste by processing it through seven reed beds planted next to one of Europe 's largest chemical plants at Billingham , Teeside . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | A car enthusiast has found a new way of making money out of Minis … he 's turning them into furniture . |
| 47 | A car enthusiast has found a new way of making money out of Minis … he 's turning them into furniture.He 's making sofas which he calls driving seats … and they 're selling all over the world.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 48 | ICI has found a successful way of dealing with this waste without causing any harm to the public in the form of emissions from incineration , so perhaps there is good news to come . |
| 49 | Meanwhile over at The Theatre in Chipping Norton Mother Goose has found a novel way of beating the recession . |
| 50 | Although this technique was originally introduced to investigate the relevance of linear stability theory , it has proved a useful way of controlling flow development and ensuring that the same features are to be observed repeatedly at the same place . |
| 51 | While the press , led by The Hindu , has gone a long way to proving that Bofors handed out millions of dollars to Indian middlemen , the identity of the ultimate recipients of the money remains a mystery . |
| 52 | Indeed the latest text has gone a long way towards meeting the UK 's objections . ’ |
| 53 | Cuba has gone a long way to reducing gender inequalities , though power relations still clearly favour men , a fact of which all Cubans , including their leaders , are very aware . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | And in fact patient research has gone a long way towards resolving this knotty problem . |
| 56 | The Community has gone a long way towards achieving that central purpose ; towards taming nationalism without suppressing patriotism ; towards sharing sovereignty without destroying nations ; and towards putting the magic of markets to work for society in a stable democratic setting . |
| 57 | I think the Home Secretary has gone a long way to meet many anxieties which were expressed |
| 58 | Fortunately , our neutering scheme has gone a long way to alleviating this problem . ’ |
| 59 | As well as giving nutrition information in a form which complies with the EC Directive , Sainsbury 's has devised a simple way of highlighting some of the more important attributes of its own label products . |
| 60 | 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 ! |