Example sentences of "had a [adj] history " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had a curious history , for it miraculously survived the destruction of the Tuileries and turned up at Chislehurst in 1871 by unknown means . |
| 2 | Candy , who had a long history of violence , reported that , while he was in Reading on 22 June , an Italian named Mike , whom he knew slightly , approached him and suggested that they rob a shopkeeper in the town . |
| 3 | That notion had a long history , and had by no means been deserted by post-classical law . |
| 4 | Unlike un-historical nations , Poland had a long history to recall and refurbish . |
| 5 | The tradition of writing ‘ effusions ’ in blank verse had a long history in the eighteenth century , culminating in The Task by William Cowper . |
| 6 | On the contrary , the idea of the Kingdom had a long history in the life of Israel , and the coming of Christ coincided with a feverish wave of expectancy within the nation . |
| 7 | Verdun had a long history : it was an important city in Roman times ; Vauban , the great fortress builder of Louis XIV 's reign , had fortified it with ditches and bastions ; in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1 Verdun had withstood a siege of 10 weeks , falling only through lack of supplies . |
| 8 | Films were cast for an international market in the Hollywood of the 1920s ; and international press syndication had a long history . |
| 9 | Voluntary organisations in many cases became the effective agents of enforcement , as well as pressure groups constantly campaigning for further intervention , and here they became quasi-state apparatuses , a pattern which had a long history . |
| 10 | The male Moodies had a long history of accidental death . |
| 11 | John had a long history of academic failure . |
| 12 | He had a long history of truancy . |
| 13 | The political police in the Soviet Union had a long history stretching back to tsarist times . |
| 14 | The story of Hello , Dolly ! had a long history . |
| 15 | Bulgaria also had a long history of Byzantine building of churches and monasteries but remains of original work are not numerous or of high quality . |
| 16 | Many mothers with parenting difficulties had a long history of emotional problems themselves , and seemed generally lacking in sensitivity to their children 's anxieties and needs rather than deficient in specific child management techniques . |
| 17 | The base had a long history as home to the packers , as well as medical and catering units . |
| 18 | But 41 year old Gould had a long history of crime . |
| 19 | In both cases the men concerned had a long history of previous convictions , with the killer already in jail following the deaths of two other boys . |
| 20 | The state thus assumed responsibility for deaf education but , as we shall see , its advance had a chequered history . |
| 21 | Subsidies were resumed in 1961 and thereafter had a chequered history with changing problems in housing supply and differing political judgements ( Burnett , 1978 ) . |
| 22 | From a ferry service across the Mersey in World War One , the heroic Royal Daffodil ( above ) had a colourful history . |
| 23 | Christians had a sacred history : in the fourth century they acquired a sacred geography which was its spatial reflection . |
| 24 | But Greek knowledge of Egypt , and the Greek presence there , already had a 300-year history when Peukestas put up his notice . |
| 25 | The kingdom of Greece had a longer history ; the Greeks had been the first subject people to break free from Ottoman rule after 1815 . |
| 26 | Indeed , the over spill factor had a longer history than a concern with post-coal industrial restructuring , since the plans of the 1940s and early 1950s had assumed stable employment in coal . |
| 27 | Even the moral reformer was primarily concerned — at least in terms of practical politics — with encouraging greater efforts in the regulation of the public arena , though imperceptibly many began to attempt to evangelise in the private too , in a tradition that had a considerable history , and a long future . |
| 28 | Had a sexual history been taken at the time of his first visit , it would have emerged that , although he had a long-lasting and stable sexual relationship with one person , his partner was of a promiscuous nature and was known by Philip H. to have had several casual sexual encounters over the preceding year . |
| 29 | It also seemed obvious that the universe had a unique history , yet since the discovery of quantum mechanics , we have had to consider the universe as having every possible history . |
| 30 | The 1977–81 material is thought to be essentially complete , except for the exclusion of 12% who had a previous history of malignancy or had undergone gastric surgery or who were given the drug for another diagnosis than a peptic ulcer related disease . |