Example sentences of "has a [adj] history " in BNC.
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| 31 | Gaselee , 53 , has a long history in racing in several capacities . |
| 32 | Anti-parliamentarianism has a long history in France . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | It was pointed out that contrary to the rose-tinted spectacles view , Britain has a long history of riot and disorder . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | The valley has a long history of fact and legend , and age has mellowed its few buildings . |
| 37 | Literature has a long history of feminist interest , but film and media studies are certainly as central to feminist cultural debates . |
| 38 | Thirty-seven per cent of the national dairy herd is of the Swedish Friesian ( SLB ) , which has a long history in the country . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | National Assistance which followed on Poor Law Relief has a long history . |
| 41 | Similarly , in England football hooliganism has a long history . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | Biotechnology , in the form of plant and animal breeding , also has a long history , beginning with the first agriculturalists c. 10 kyr BP , but developments in genetic engineering in the 1970s and 1980s are opening up possibilities that have no historical parallels and thus there are no base-line data against which it is possible to predict future environmental changes that genetically engineered organisms may promote . |
| 47 | The veneration of saints has a long history dating back to the early martyrs ( meaning witnesses ) . |
| 48 | THE death penalty for heretics has a long history . |
| 49 | The convention of marking the beginning of years of grace by the Nativity ( or Christmas Day ) has a long history . |
| 50 | The technique of biomass gasification by partial combustion has a long history . |
| 51 | Dowsing has a long history . |
| 52 | It has a long history and in 1843 twelve Bronze Age artefacts and two portions of a sword were found whilst digging a drain . |
| 53 | The village has a long history . |
| 54 | It noted that ‘ Corbett McDonald has a long history as a lobbyist for the asbestos industry . |
| 55 | Freedom of the press has a long history , but it is only since 1980 that the right to communicate and the freedom that it entails has been seen as the very centre of human rights , and indeed as a precondition for a meaningful implementation of other human rights . |
| 56 | Within the family itself , each member contributes as part of the system , being in some way a member from birth through to death , so that the system has a long history . |
| 57 | One consequence is that mainstream political science has a long history of insensitivity to issues of gender . |
| 58 | But despite the fact that it seems inhospitable , Dartmoor has a long history of use by humans . |
| 59 | Although it has a long history , the paradox of the Prisoners ' Dilemma has recently been much studied for the light it may shed on the evolution of altruistic or cooperative behaviour . |
| 60 | It may seem obvious to suggest that the level of understanding about purchasing among general practitioners and primary health care teams is extremely varied , but primary care has a long history of suffering from being physically distanced from other parts of the service and the discussions taking place there . |