Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [art] history [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The first day also gave us the sight of an England captain losing the toss on his birthday , the first time this has happened in the history of Test cricket . |
2 | Having gestured to a history for his theory Barthes proceeds to describe the structure of myth by borrowing from the Saussurean distinction between signifier and signified as analytical components of the sign . |
3 | Spike , the most forceful and ambitious black director to have emerged in the history of American cinema , went on to make ‘ Do The Right Thing ’ , which grossed $28 million in America in 1989 . |
4 | The great problem of uniformitarianism was always the amount of time needed to explain what was known to have happened in the history of the earth ( including the evolution of all its species ) if one could only Postulate present processes . |
5 | I switched increasingly to erm political history , then I moved from economic and political history to social history , to some extent linking the two , and increasingly over the last ten years , partly through the work that I 've done on the history of broadcasting , and on twentieth century history , I think I would say that I would now be a cultural historian . |
6 | Emma Cons lived on for another twelve years , continuing to work at her housing projects : but a new chapter had opened in the history of what was to become the Old Vic , as Lilian Baylis began to programme it for early films and then light opera and later Shakespeare . |
7 | For a long time he had wondered about the history of this little family , now it looked as though he was going to find out . |
8 | It can also help to emphasize to the counsellees the value and significance of their lives , and the part they have played in the history of their times . |
9 | But these considerations , which are no fault of the present author 's , should not be allowed to diminish pleasure in and admiration for the parts of her book under review that have to do with the history of ideas . |
10 | Clearly a number of factors that have to do with the history of English ( chiefly the reported merger of meat/mate in the sixteenth century ) , with patterns of language maintenance , and with phonological theory and description , have also motivated the choice of this variable , and we shall return to these in chapter 5 . |
11 | Dr John Little , president of the Cambridge club , said : ‘ I ca n't say unequivocally but I have gone through a history of the club and there is no mention of it there . ’ |
12 | ‘ In a month , I could teach the Americans more than they have learned in the history of their game . ’ |