Example sentences of "[noun pl] have a history " in BNC.

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1 Many words have a history which reflects the history of ideas and the history of society .
2 But taking the fact into account that schools have a history and a texture , the manager 's armoury of awareness has to be constantly reviewed and expanded .
3 In districts where industrial crafts such as weaving or metalworking had been long established many families had a history of involvement in one or more of the local trades over several generations .
4 The supporters from three of these teams have a history of violence ; in Cairo , riot police are nearly always on hand , and even referees need protection from death threats .
5 The DNs were asked to indicate whether their patients had a history of a selected list of conditions which could suggest venous and/ or arterial insufficiency .
6 Three patients had a history of previous bleeding from ulcers of the duodenum or stomach , one patient experienced anastomosal bleeding with a history of gastric resection , one patient had a Dieulafoy 's lesion treated conservatively in another hospital with recurrent bleeding episodes within one year before admission .
7 In a series of 141 patients who had had a prophylactic colectomy and ileorectal anastomosis , five patients had a history of acute pancreatitis .
8 All patients had a history of ulcer recurrence confirmed by endoscopy .
9 In migraineurs , dihydroergotamine therapy has resulted in 18 reported cases of myocardial infarction , with death in 3. 2 patients had a history of cardiac disease .
10 Some patients have a history of hospitalization and surgery before the age of 5 , and in some cases such events have occurred before the age of 18 months ( Rosenthal et al. 1972 ; Simpson 1975 ) .
11 However , they are well recognised in children with extrahepatic portal hypertension and almost half of these patients have a history of previous surgery .
12 These islands have a history of shipwrecks and smuggling ; St Mary 's has a busy harbour , and Tresco has a beautiful tropical garden .
13 For example , to many women pregnancy can prove fatal ( those women whose mothers have a history of death during labour ) and diabetics and even in today 's society where medicine is very advanced , as a precaution , many doctors advise abortions .
14 Both men had a history of lawlessness , petty felonies and misdemeanours , but this was to be their first foray into serious and hopefully prosperous crime , an opportunity prompted by pure chance .
15 The 330 replies showed that 22 servicemen had died of reticuloendothelia system neoplasms ( cancers ) , and another five dead men had a history of such diseases although they were not the primary cause of death .
16 The fact that those practices which became fundholders had a history of referring patients across district boundaries to a greater extent than the controls in our study may provide an indication of their motivation for joining the scheme .
17 Because those debts are not shown in any balance sheet of central government ( there is not one ) and also because the balance sheets have a history of restructuring and debt write-off , maintaining capital in accounting terms has become progressively less realistic .
18 Many of the women repealers had a history of involvement in the type of philanthropy and social reform which we have already observed in Ellen Ranyard 's bible missions .
19 REIGNING monarchs have a history of obtuse relationships with Mozart .
20 All living systems have a history which shapes the way they function today — to attempt to cure environmental ills without understanding their origin would be to operate on a patient without ever consulting the medical case notes .
21 These two institutions have a history , and they are therefore specific to a particular time and type of society and , as time passes and society goes on changing , as it always has , these institutions will change .
22 Hydnoceras is a Devonian and Carboniferous genus , but glass sponges of similar general form ( but without knobs have a History going back to the Cambrian , and surviving species today .
23 All religions have a history of reform movements which operate from within and are not imposed from without .
24 Many male transvestites have a history of being dressed when toddlers by their doting mothers in pretty dresses .
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