Example sentences of "[noun] a [adj] history " in BNC.
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| 1 | Archives , London are in the final stages of research a short history of Drummonds Bank . |
| 2 | Sidney Watson outlines a brief history of the Wills family . |
| 3 | From the answers a narrative history can be written , and perhaps published in the local press or parish magazine , full credit ( with photographs ) being given to the people who provided all the information . |
| 4 | John Paris , in his biography of Davy published in 1825 , wrote : ‘ I have been able to present to the world a complete history of those proceedings which have so happily led to discovery of which it is not too much to say that it is at once the pride of science , the triumph of humanity and the glory of the age in which we live . ’ |
| 5 | What was more disturbing , and could never be truly exorcised , was the way a whole history of friendship , a lifetime of amity , could be nullified in a moment . |
| 6 | Some opening of diplomacy to parliamentary and even public scrutiny had by the later nineteenth century a considerable history in Britain , though it was by no means one of steady or continuous growth . |
| 7 | Are the present problems unusual or has the client a long history of similar difficulties ? |
| 8 | Boswell 's reflections upon their first four days on Skye ring with a different clang , and behind his final edition of his Journal of a Tourlies a curly history . |
| 9 | For one thing Barthes 's perverse perspective on difference foregrounds a different history , one wherein there is no simple privileging of the marginal : the paradoxically perverse interrelationship between centre and margins , whereby the marginal returns to the centre in a way which disarticulates the centre/margin binary itself , is signified , in this instance , by Barthes inaugurating his professorship with a lecture on the significance of perversity vis-à-vis language . |