Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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1 | THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit . |
2 | THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit . |
3 | ‘ I do seem to have come quite a long way . ’ |
4 | And people have actually moved quite a long way in the direction of actually working out their own finances . |
5 | However , if you are correcting for drift with one wing well down , and then the cable breaks , you may find that you have already turned quite a long way , and that it is easier to keep that turn going if you can not get down ahead . |
6 | What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase . |
7 | Contrary to your impression matters have moved forward a considerable way in relation to the Church Road stop . |
8 | You know she never has liked village people , and she 's always had rather a squashing way towards kids . |
9 | To a post-Renaissance intellectual , the Middle Ages had advanced only a small way beyond the sixth century Goths ; it was the Renaissance which brought greatness to architecture . |
10 | She 'd gone only a short way when some sixth sense brought her to a halt in the nick of time . |
11 | She had gone only a little way however , when she stopped to check her map and , to her consternation found that when she turned the ignition on again her car would n't go ! |
12 | Yet despite these differences , English English has gone quite a long way down the road of a more-or-less Americanized professionalism , as identified and rejected in the 1960s by Leavis , Lewis , and Gardner . |
13 | By spring of eighty-nine , when the project had started , we 'd gone quite a long way down the road , we 'd decided that we wanted to be looking at what was feasible in general practice . |
14 | But I think those days are now over and anybody who 's been in building societies , there 's now a feeling er that things have altered quite a long way . |
15 | And it 's reputation has travelled or it it 's false reputation has travelled quite a long way . |