Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hear you 've come a long way . " |
| 2 | American Pentecostalism has travelled a long way from its roots in the southern states . |
| 3 | Another dealer explained : ‘ There are some punters who will buy a stock just because it has fallen a long way . ’ |
| 4 | One of these types is the de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou and over the years it has attracted a long list of very satisfied customers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The humble fryer has come a long way since the days when it was little more than a heating element and a thermostat . |
| 7 | MacMillan has come a long way since 1963 but Hermanas can still grip when done as well as this . |
| 8 | Contemporary psychology has come a long way from the time when J. B. Watson , the first behaviourist , forbade the consideration of non-observable entities . |
| 9 | She has come a long way from 1755 when John Whiston described her poetry as ‘ extremely fit for young ladies … ‘ |
| 10 | Microscopy has come a long way since the 1670s when Antonie van Leewenhoek used his relatively crude instruments to see for the first time the bacteria that inhabit worlds normally hidden from the naked eye . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But the industrial robot has come a long way since the early sixties when Joe Engelberger set up Unimation , the world 's first industrial robot making company . |
| 13 | It has come a long way in the last decade . |
| 14 | If we wish to measure the past in terms of life-expectancy , poverty , ignorance , disease , education , comfort and leisure , then there is no doubt that the modern world in the West has come a long way . |
| 15 | He quietly looked into solving his problems , he got some treatment and really has come a long way . |
| 16 | ‘ Eric has come a long way since then , ’ said McAllister . |
| 17 | BED and Breakfast has come a long way since the days when fearsome dragon landladies belched fire and brimstone over their terrified guests . |
| 18 | Anna has come a long way from the Romanian orphanage where she spent the first two years of her life , a malnourished , incontinent infant with a shaven head . |
| 19 | He has come a long way since he worked as a production runner with James Wong Howe and Martin Ritt in a coal-mining village in Pennsylvania . |
| 20 | Even if men 's fashion has come a long way since the Sixties , the overwhelming inspiration , Cerruti concedes , is still the archetypal English businessman 's suit . |
| 21 | 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 , . |
| 22 | Curtain hardware has come a long way since the days of the narrow brass rod and rings . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He has come a long way from the rough-edged , bearded Glaswegian to the rich , Hollywood smoothie , all tan and haircut . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | One-room living has come a long way from the old bed-sitter image with its general note of poverty and desperation . |
| 27 | Geldof has come a long way since his first single with the Boomtown Rats , a hymn to selfishness called Looking After Number One . |
| 28 | AIR travel has come a long way at Aldergrove since the first wide-eyed civilian passengers flew there 30 years ago . |
| 29 | The industry has come a long way since the day 's of men selling cornets from the back of bicycles . |
| 30 | 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 . |