Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | BED and Breakfast has come a long way since the days when fearsome dragon landladies belched fire and brimstone over their terrified guests . |
| 32 | Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | For example , supposing you want to refer to the fact that the groom is a medical student and you have a story about a king dying in the Middle Ages who says the physician has killed him , tell this story but end it , ‘ Of course medicine has come a long way since those days , . |
| 35 | Curtain hardware has come a long way since the days of the narrow brass rod and rings . |
| 36 | The modern legal aid scheme , which provides financial assistance ( subject to eligibility ) in connection with proceedings in most of our civil courts , has come a long way since 1495 when statute provided for poor people , at the discretion of the Lord Chancellor , to sue without payment to the Crown , and to have lawyers assigned to them without fee . |
| 37 | We have come a long way since then , thanks to the vast amount of public investment over the last century . |
| 38 | Spices certainly have come a long way since their early days , when they were a rare commodity and it was considered an honour to receive them as a gift . |
| 39 | We have come a long way since then , writes Dr David Breeze , Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments . |
| 40 | But I have come a long way since then |
| 41 | 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 ’ . |
| 42 | We have come a long way since the days of the ice cream van and the Medau tunic . |
| 43 | He 's come a long way since then — but underneath he 's still the same determined , death-defying Barry Sheene . |
| 44 | Jamie Whitham : has come a long way since Kirkistown back in 1988 . |
| 45 | ‘ We demonstrated that we have come a long way since our first game in Zimbabwe . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | Mr Fallon said : ‘ The Dyslexia Institute has come a long way since 1973 and has raised the profile of dyslexia in the country . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | Simulators have come a long way in recent years and today many of them use screen addressing to update the information . |
| 50 | Tank decor has come a long way in recent years from the garish backdrop , and the odd lump of rock with a few dying plants . |
| 51 | It has come a long way in the last decade . |
| 52 | You 've come a long way in a short time . ’ |
| 53 | That newspapers had come a long way in the interim period was beyond doubt ; that they were to travel even further was to be confirmed by the manner in which the Cadburys disposed of the News Chronicle in 1960 . |
| 54 | Imaging technology has come a long way in the last few years and there are currently available several Imaging systems which in theory could integrate with Council Tax software . |
| 55 | We have come a long way in this preliminary discussion without saying anything about what actually counts as data in the social sciences . |
| 56 | Douglas McIldoon , of the EC , said : ‘ This document demonstrates that you have come a long way in this region and it will give us great pleasure in working with you to make it happen . ’ |
| 57 | DANDELIONS have come a long way in Darlington . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | 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 . |