Example sentences of "have a long tradition of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possibly true of ‘ Bonn ’ : Germany has a long tradition of unease about England which has been kept alive.and well in influential papers such as Die Zeit and elsewhere . |
| 2 | It has a long tradition of settlement , the hill having been a fortified place since the mid-tenth century . |
| 3 | France has had no super-communications ministry ; but it has had a long tradition of state control , planning and Jacobin centralism . |
| 4 | The department is also strong in the history of philosophy , having a long tradition of scholarship in Ancient Philosophy , the Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment , and in Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy . |
| 5 | George Herbert was a member of a family which had come over with William the Conqueror and had a long tradition of service to the Crown . |
| 6 | Cancer research had a long tradition of support from private contributions , but new charities devoted to particular diseases , such as arthritis and rheumatism , leukaemia , and muscular dystrophy , were founded and became a great source of strength to workers whose interests had or might have application to the desired objectives . |
| 7 | The town and its surrounding rural communities already had a long tradition of Dissent , but just over 20 miles to the east the situation in Doncaster was very different . |
| 8 | Weak though its labour organisation may have been in the 1880s , it had a longer tradition of trade unionism among seamen than any other part of the country . |
| 9 | Swindon Town and Oxford United fans have a long tradition of rivalry . |