Example sentences of "have [verb] a long way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will create interest in the foreground which I think is important and often , especially looking across water an expanse of water if you have n't got any interesting detail in the foreground yo you have to go a long way into the picture before it begins to get interesting . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We have travelled a long way from the traditional " dualist " and " monist " views of style outlined in Chapter 1 . |
| 4 | We have travelled a long way from the original accelerationist hypothesis as set out in Friedman 's Presidential Address . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But , ’ he continued seriously , ‘ I do see danger for you and I also feel sorry , as you have come a long way for nothing . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Social Democrats have come a long way since the early 1980s when , newly tossed into opposition , the party was crippled by defeatism . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | We have come a long way since the idealism of Lord Devlin — and that was only twenty years ago . |
| 12 | In the event , the announcement was premature ; but fusion researchers have come a long way since then |
| 13 | We have come a long way since then , and one of the greatest stresses in the world today is loneliness . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We have come a long way since then , thanks to the vast amount of public investment over the last century . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We have come a long way since then , writes Dr David Breeze , Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments . |
| 18 | But I have come a long way since then |
| 19 | We have come a long way since the days of the ice cream van and the Medau tunic . |
| 20 | ‘ We demonstrated that we have come a long way since our first game in Zimbabwe . |
| 21 | Simulators have come a long way in recent years and today many of them use screen addressing to update the information . |
| 22 | We have come a long way in this preliminary discussion without saying anything about what actually counts as data in the social sciences . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | DANDELIONS have come a long way in Darlington . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Inspirals have come a long way from 1989 's full-tilt three-minute organ romp early days . |
| 27 | But manufacturers have come a long way from the aluminium-framed picture windows that disfigured so many homes in the early days of the replacement window boom , and a wide range of window styles is now available . |
| 28 | What follows may suggest that we have moved a long way from the consideration of reading . |
| 29 | Will my hon. Friend please comment on the cost of that and on the fact that , 50 years after the Beveridge report , we have moved a long way from the principle of paying into the kitty through insurance before being allowed to draw out of it ? |
| 30 | The Thatcher governments have gone a long way towards puncturing claims about the power of the unions . |