Example sentences of "[noun] has [art] history " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each element in the communication processes of which media are a part has a history of its own : the media organizations , the changing technology , the contents , the audiences . |
| 2 | The basis for this offer is the fact known by the cops and the criminals that the judge in the case has a history of giving reduced sentences and often clemency to guilty criminals who truly show remorse ; the judge also believes that co-operation with the police is proof that a criminal regrets his behaviour . |
| 3 | You see this department has a history . |
| 4 | ‘ The lad has a history of moving on in the game . |
| 5 | North Forest has a history of administrative instability , near-insolvency and crime ; one high school was partly burnt down . |
| 6 | Even the pop consumer 's body has a history . |
| 7 | The argument is therefore not about police control or a utopia without controls , but to explore why some cultural behaviour has a history of police action and to discover where that behaviour fits into police ideology . |
| 8 | This type of tree has a history extending back to the upper Cretaceous . |
| 9 | Thus , although capitalism is blamed by many workers for the treatment older people receive today , it is clear that ageism has a history which long predates this form of social organisation . |
| 10 | To this extent , Marxism 's universalizing narrative of the unfolding of a rational system of world history is simply a negative form of the history of European imperialism : it was Hegel , after all , who declared that ‘ Africa has no history ’ , and it was Marx who , though critical of British imperialism , concluded that the British colonization of India was ultimately for the best because it brought India into the evolutionary narrative of Western history , thus creating the conditions for future class struggle there . |
| 11 | The harbour town of Watchet has a history going back over a thousand years and is still an active trading port . |
| 12 | If the organisation has a history of autocratic leadership , it will be difficult to introduce a new style . |
| 13 | Border has a history of reacting to situations before considering all the consequences . |
| 14 | In the crowd scenes every character has a history — the chaotic spontaneity is deceptive , and improvisation is out . |
| 15 | The fact that evil has a history as long as homo sapiens should itself warn one against moralising convulsions . |
| 16 | Second , the individual 's stance has a history : the ‘ attitude ’ is not fixed , but rhetorically unfolds as the historical context of controversy unfolds . |
| 17 | JOHN Bryan 's glamorous personal assistant has a history of mischief herself . |
| 18 | El Salvador has no history of an organized feminist movement . |
| 19 | Based in Bristol , Sun Life has a history that stretches back as far as 1810 . |
| 20 | Belgium has a history of unstable governments . |
| 21 | In Sweden consumer pressure has a history of forcing changes on industry . |
| 22 | A study of child prostitution in Britain , America and West Germany reports that ‘ every runaway child who goes into full-time child prostitution has a history of continual and profound family conflict ’ ( Sereny , 1984 ) . |
| 23 | Ask if the patient has a history of lung disease . |
| 24 | Dixton House has a history of leg trouble . |
| 25 | Indeed , as chief executive Corrado Passera pointed out , Olivetti has a history of investment in the personal communications sector . |
| 26 | Cardiff castle has a history of more than 1900 years dating from the coming of the Romans in the first century . |
| 27 | In the New York court system , a mugger is automatically declared not guilty if the defense can prove the victim has a history of making eye contact . |
| 28 | However , region has a history as a concept within geography and it is better to use a new term than to try and alter the definition of a long-established one . |