Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [art] long way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've come a long way since those days though — the soles of that pair were completely worn through after 400 miles walking in the Andes so that I ended up walking in my socks ! |
| 2 | H'eye tech — mascara is the one make-up item few women would be without and we 've come a long way since the days of mascaras that smudged or flaked around the eyes . |
| 3 | You 've come a long way for a late-night drink . ’ |
| 4 | In situations where tempers are getting raised , we can stand back and make everyone aware of what is happening and the effect on progress : ‘ We all seem to be getting very heated about this , and we 've come a long way from the main issue . |
| 5 | We 've come a long way from the free-standing stove with four burners and an oven with maybe a separate grill or broiler . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't doubt it , Seb , you 've come a long way from the poor , sickly boy who arrived here from London only a couple of years ago . ’ |
| 7 | You 've come a long way from Manchester to deal with that . |
| 8 | You 've come a long way in a short time . ’ |
| 9 | But sh sh sure they can succ succ they can succeed in creating capitalism , it , it it , it might succeed in paving the way for new China 's industrialization but we 've gone a long way from any any ideological position , we 've gone a long way from well what is in the best material benefiting class of the poor peasant now the poor peasant is not gon na get very much out of this . |
| 10 | But sh sh sure they can succ succ they can succeed in creating capitalism , it , it it , it might succeed in paving the way for new China 's industrialization but we 've gone a long way from any any ideological position , we 've gone a long way from well what is in the best material benefiting class of the poor peasant now the poor peasant is not gon na get very much out of this . |
| 11 | All in all , they have travelled a long way since that night when Santos led a nervous band of campesinos , complete with a BBC camera crew , onto Doña Elsa 's cattle ranch . |
| 12 | We have travelled a long way from the traditional " dualist " and " monist " views of style outlined in Chapter 1 . |
| 13 | We have travelled a long way from the original accelerationist hypothesis as set out in Friedman 's Presidential Address . |
| 14 | Truly , we have travelled a long way from the high hopes and higher hyperbole of the 1980s , when inward investment offered a fast-track escape route from a crumbling manufacturing base . |
| 15 | But , ’ he continued seriously , ‘ I do see danger for you and I also feel sorry , as you have come a long way for nothing . ’ |
| 16 | Liz Brookes , from the Dyslexia Institute , said : ‘ We have come a long way during the last year and progress is being made , but it is not enough . |
| 17 | The Social Democrats have come a long way since the early 1980s when , newly tossed into opposition , the party was crippled by defeatism . |
| 18 | Our cosmetics and toiletries have come a long way since the days when Elizabeth I used highly toxic lead powder to whiten and enhance her complexion ! |
| 19 | Fainting goats have come a long way since the days when farmers used them as decoys to protect herds of sheep from coyotes ( coyote arrives ; goat faints and is devoured ; sheep escape ) . |
| 20 | We have come a long way since the idealism of Lord Devlin — and that was only twenty years ago . |
| 21 | In the event , the announcement was premature ; but fusion researchers have come a long way since then |
| 22 | We have come a long way since then , and one of the greatest stresses in the world today is loneliness . |
| 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 | We have come a long way since then , thanks to the vast amount of public investment over the last century . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We have come a long way since then , writes Dr David Breeze , Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments . |
| 27 | But I have come a long way since then |
| 28 | We have come a long way since the days of the ice cream van and the Medau tunic . |
| 29 | ‘ We demonstrated that we have come a long way since our first game in Zimbabwe . |
| 30 | Simulators have come a long way in recent years and today many of them use screen addressing to update the information . |