Example sentences of "have [art] tradition [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Has the tradition of antisemitism been broken ?
2 Its distinctiveness lay in the degree of autonomy it had achieved from the ‘ dominating ’ class , a class which in fact was ‘ hardly emerging from destitution and darkness and has no tradition of dominion or command ’ .
3 South Korea has a Confucian-style society which has a tradition of respect for hierarchical authority , but also one of egalitaranism and an expectation that rulers have a duty to treat their people fairly .
4 The United States has a tradition of programme budgeting , but mainly at school-board level .
5 ‘ And no other country has a tradition of rugby like the New Zealanders ’ .
6 BRITAIN is a small , overcrowded island yet it has a tradition of being a safe haven for refugees .
7 The Bank has a tradition of self-criticism .
8 There has been healthy demand recently in newly-rich China , which has a tradition of buying gold and of susceptibility to inflation .
9 Brighton & Hove has a tradition of fine hotel-keeping and hospitality that goes back to the Prince Regent 's days .
10 Indeed , the east part of Thurso has a tradition of ‘ travelling workers ’ — men regularly working away from home on construction .
11 Says Dent : ‘ The plastics industry has a tradition of pushing back the frontiers of technology .
12 The housing association movement has a tradition of accountability and good local performance .
13 Arabic has a tradition of word-play , too .
14 The French working class also has a tradition of sudden quasi-general strikes .
15 Edinburgh has long had a tradition of study of South Asia and also possesses comparatively rich library and archive resources in the University Library ( including New College Library ) , the School of Scottish Studies , the National Library of Scotland and the National Record Office .
16 Yet most environmental groups are not currently plugged into existing sources of advice and do not have a tradition of working together .
17 Most Burghers were Protestants , as were some wealthy Low Country Sinhalese families who had a tradition of government service .
18 Where I come from , erm most of the the the fish , the fishing part of the community , up until just two , three years ago we had a tradition of women 's working practices which were handed down for hundreds of years from the female side .
19 There were outcries throughout the province , and in Ninfania again there were running battles against the gangs , in the old quarter of Riba , in some of the hill towns which had a tradition of dissent .
20 In earlier centuries , the inhabitants of the British Isles had a tradition of settling in other parts of the world , establishing English-speaking communities in , for example , North America , Australia , South Africa and New Zealand .
21 Erm that this council had a tradition of actually putting forward information in as straightforward a way as possible and indeed the attitude of the citizens ' er charter working party demonstrates that we actually put a value on this and it seems to me that there is a gap if you like , between what some people in the conservative group are doing in this context and what they 're actually doing in working parties and in committees and it comes out elsewhere as well .
22 English keyboard music had a tradition at least as old , was produced at least as copiously , and was later to influence through Sweelinck the German organ school from Samuel Scheidt onward .
23 The school was very keen on athletics and had a tradition in the sport .
24 Corruption could occur or it could prove impossible to induce much positive interest in and enthusiasm for political matters among a population that had no tradition of political involvement and no overt disputation over policies to excite its interest .
25 In the UK , we have a tradition of management firms with only one or two clients .
26 The Christian Democrats in Germany have a tradition of good quality newspapers .
27 Dr Fleming said : ‘ We have a tradition of using the same route for all referrals , an all-stations route .
28 Certainly witches still have a tradition of performing rites at special places in the countryside and it seems natural for people to want to express their relationship with the Earth in the form of ritual at sites where they know the earth energy can be found .
29 Universities by contrast have a tradition of publishing and disseminating the results of their research for peer approval .
30 Erm , I 'd just like to reassure the conference , that there is actually a representative erm , from a environmental organisation , here today after Richard erm , comments , Head of Communications at Friends of the Earth , erm , and also to ask him , on what basis , erm , he made the comment that environmental organisation have a tradition of not working together .
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