Example sentences of "[verb] [art] long history " in BNC.

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1 The church of San Celso , now standing somewhat forlornly beside the bigger , more illustrious church , has the longer history .
2 This region has the longer history of continuous occupation by tundra , for at no time during the post-glacial period was it invaded by forest .
3 Avenches illustrates the long history of settlement characteristic of Mittelland .
4 The writing was on the wall , however , and the fateful day eventually arrived in 1906 , when the last of the Eastington mills finally closed , putting large numbers out of work and ending a long history of cloth making in the parish .
5 ‘ China has a long history of cuisine , a vast territory and abundant natural resources , many nationalities and a large population that has many regions and local diets and customs , ’ he explains , adding that Chinese chefs tended to create new dishes daily , as each cooking method , each style and the range of ingredients could be used to make up different combinations — traditional menus contained a minimum of 100 dishes named after methods .
6 We recall that the confessional idea has a long history .
7 Talk of a realignment on the centre-left of the spectrum has a long history .
8 This central role for private property has a long history in European thought and goes back to the eighteenth-century notion of the social contract .
9 Idealism has a long history in philosophy , going back at least to the Irish philosopher Berkeley , and it is sometimes attributed , as it was by Marx , to Plato .
10 More generally the idea of the inseparability of cultural and political revolution has a long history within the libertarian tradition with its roots in revolutionary Romanticism .
11 What 's more it 's one that , contrary to composites ' up-to-the-minute image , has a long history in the specialist motor industry .
12 During a lawsuit brought by environmental groups against NMFS to compel observer coverage of the total US tuna fleet , the legal counsel for Earth Island Institute and the Marine Mammal Fund stated : ‘ The National Marine Fisheries Service has a long history of ignoring the will of Congress and working closely with the fishing industry .
13 VOLUNTARY service has a long history in America .
14 In this second talk I want to mention a view which has a long history in the Church , far longer than my previous subject .
15 Prague has a long history of defenestrations and in 1948 Jan Masaryk , the foreign minister , the founding president 's son and one of only three non-communist ministers in the government , was found dead , having apparently exited from his office window .
16 Gaselee , 53 , has a long history in racing in several capacities .
17 Anti-parliamentarianism has a long history in France .
18 In fact , this is probably , the most completely original church from the sixteenth-century in Milan and has a long history of being attended by the rich and powerful .
19 It was pointed out that contrary to the rose-tinted spectacles view , Britain has a long history of riot and disorder .
20 The concept of social disorganization , for example , which has a long history in sociology , assumes its contrast to be with a ‘ community ’ , a harmoniously well-organized and integrated society .
21 The valley has a long history of fact and legend , and age has mellowed its few buildings .
22 Literature has a long history of feminist interest , but film and media studies are certainly as central to feminist cultural debates .
23 Thirty-seven per cent of the national dairy herd is of the Swedish Friesian ( SLB ) , which has a long history in the country .
24 The CAB has a long history of mobilising professionals such as lawyers , accountants and surveyors , to advise clients on a voluntary basis but there are very few lawyers who specialise in welfare benefits or money advice .
25 National Assistance which followed on Poor Law Relief has a long history .
26 Similarly , in England football hooliganism has a long history .
27 Songqiao ( 1988 ) describes that of the Hexi corridor which is situated between the Mongolian and Tibetan plateaux and which has a long history of cultivation based on irrigation .
28 Egypt is another example of a country which , like Pakistan and China , has a long history of irrigation , in this case in the Nile Valley ( section 3.4.2 ) beginning some 5 kyr BP .
29 In Tanzania , for example , the Dodoma section of the semi-arid central region has a long history of both accelerated soil erosion and attempts at conservation .
30 The region has a long history of human activity ( section 3.2.1 ) , and although erosion has always been a problem it has intensified considerably in the last 100 years as deforestation has accelerated and grasslands have been degraded .
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