Example sentences of "had [art] history of " in BNC.

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1 She 'd explained to me the origin of the Paisley pattern ; I had the history of Notting Hill Gate , the use of a camera obscura by Vermeer , why Charles Lamb 's sister murdered their mother , and a history of Tamla Motown .
2 The family had a history of cot deaths , and the baby had a heart condition .
3 MR JOHN Heddle , the MP for Mid-Staffordshire who was found dead in his fume-filled Jaguar on Tuesday , had a history of depression , a Canterbury inquest was told yesterday .
4 PC John Burden , coroner 's officer for Canterbury , Kent , said : ‘ He had a history of depression dating back to the early 1970s and he had been depressed since September this year . ’
5 BELOW : Lodgemore Mill had a history of fires , the one in 1871 destroying virtually all the stone-built mill .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 The boy had a history of fits .
9 She had a history of aching in the chest , pain extending to both shoulder blades , and neck pain associated with tiredness of both the upper and lower arms and hands .
10 Within months , she was in severe financial difficulties , and had become involved with another man who , according to her friends , had a history of being violent .
11 As Thomas was apparently away in Reigate , Marina , his wife , aged 26 , who had a history of mental illness , was charged with the murder .
12 Jimmy Souness , who was a school cleaner , had a history of heart disease which runs in the family .
13 Matrix Churchill 's managing director Paul Henderson had a history of supplying machine tools behind the Iron Curtain and passing information back to Britain via MI6 .
14 He shook during the interviews and said he had a history of mental illness .
15 This means that he asked his questions from an existing problematic ; each question had a history of answers on which he was able to draw and contextualize his own .
16 She had a history of recurrent eczema but no exposure to toxic products .
17 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 .
18 The mother of the family ( 'the patient ’ ) had a history of mental illness .
19 The gravity of the offence was sufficient to justify a sentence of imprisonment in the case of an adult , and the appellant had a history of failure to respond to non-custodial penalties and was unable or unwilling to respond to them .
20 A child aged 14 in the care of a local authority who had a history of absconding was placed in an open unit from which he absconded and was absent for 94 days .
21 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 .
22 Nearly two thirds of the total had a history of smoking .
23 Among those with carcinoma of the floor of the mouth , which was second only to the tongue as the most common site , 55 ( 76% ) had a history of smoking .
24 We excluded from the analysis subjects who had a history of heart attack , heart failure , stroke , cancer , or an unknown periodontal classification at baseline .
25 They had a history of hearing loss for an average of 18 months .
26 Of the forty eight-people in prisons who killed themselves in 1989 , 40 per cent had a history of previous mental disorder .
27 Many of the medical supporters of the legislation had a history of involvement in hospital and sanitary work among the poor , as local medical officers and poor law doctors — work which reinforced their commitment to the acts as part of the wider politics of public health .
28 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 .
29 Marius had a history of heart trouble — you say he 'd had a minor attack before you went to France in the summer .
30 Alex Household had a history of mental instability and paranoia .
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