Example sentences of "has a [adj] history " in BNC.
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| 1 | Centrophenoxine has a similar history as a tonic preparation for geriatrics , used more on the Continent than in England and America . |
| 2 | Montreuil has a fascinating history , it was once a port but it was abandoned by the sea years ago and is now 14 kilometres from the coast . |
| 3 | However the real benefit of the upgrade for walkers is increased waymarking and the opening up of new stretches of the 100 mile route which has a fascinating history . |
| 4 | The Library itself has a fascinating history , described by M.V. Mathew recently in his History of the Royal Botanic Garden Library Edinburgh ( Edinburgh , HMSO , 1987 ) . |
| 5 | It has a strange history and to understand it it is necessary to turn the clock back eight thousand years , to the moment when the first cats were being domesticated in the Middle East . |
| 6 | It has a continuous history of woodland cover going back 700 years and provides a habitat for a huge variety of plant , bird and butterfly life . |
| 7 | This road has a continuous history from the Bronze Age onwards . |
| 8 | Brentford has a colourful history , its Market and Fair being recorded at the beginning of the fourteenth century , when the area was referred to as ‘ the Manor of Bratnford ’ . |
| 9 | Moreover , whereas America has a substantial history of the employment of professionals trained for their role ( most states lay down a minimum requirement of so many credit hours in education and library science at undergraduate and postgraduate levels ) , by far the majority of secondary school libraries in Britain are run in a few supposedly " free " periods during a week , by classroom teachers with little or no librarianship training . |
| 10 | Strathclyde has a substantial history of take-up campaigns , some of which were undertaken with the full co-operation of the DSS . |
| 11 | Price 's has a rich history , told in the company 's centenary year book , Still the Candle Burns . |
| 12 | MANTES , caught up in the coils of the Seine in northern France , has a rich history and is proud of its association with the great Impressionist painters . |
| 13 | The latter has a chequered history and has been altered several times within its life in Poland . |
| 14 | ‘ Monpazier has a chequered history , torn between French and English , Catholic and Protestant . |
| 15 | Part of Einstein 's problems with quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle arose from the fact that he used the ordinary , commonsense notion that a system has a definite history . |
| 16 | In Type I disease , the calves have usually been set-stocked in one area for several moths ; in contrast , Type II disease often has a typical history of calves being grazed on a field from spring to mid-summer , then moved and brought back to the original field in the autumn . |
| 17 | Faldo , who has a feud-ridden history with some members of the AGW , could be forgiven for thinking that this is yet another example of a lack of sympathy with his cause . |
| 18 | ‘ It was given to me by my grandmother , the lady Jacquetta , and has a curious history . |
| 19 | String theory has a curious history . |
| 20 | ‘ China has a long history of cuisine , a vast territory and abundant natural resources , many nationalities and a large population that has many regions and local diets and customs , ’ he explains , adding that Chinese chefs tended to create new dishes daily , as each cooking method , each style and the range of ingredients could be used to make up different combinations — traditional menus contained a minimum of 100 dishes named after methods . |
| 21 | We recall that the confessional idea has a long history . |
| 22 | Talk of a realignment on the centre-left of the spectrum has a long history . |
| 23 | This central role for private property has a long history in European thought and goes back to the eighteenth-century notion of the social contract . |
| 24 | Idealism has a long history in philosophy , going back at least to the Irish philosopher Berkeley , and it is sometimes attributed , as it was by Marx , to Plato . |
| 25 | More generally the idea of the inseparability of cultural and political revolution has a long history within the libertarian tradition with its roots in revolutionary Romanticism . |
| 26 | What 's more it 's one that , contrary to composites ' up-to-the-minute image , has a long history in the specialist motor industry . |
| 27 | During a lawsuit brought by environmental groups against NMFS to compel observer coverage of the total US tuna fleet , the legal counsel for Earth Island Institute and the Marine Mammal Fund stated : ‘ The National Marine Fisheries Service has a long history of ignoring the will of Congress and working closely with the fishing industry . |
| 28 | VOLUNTARY service has a long history in America . |
| 29 | In this second talk I want to mention a view which has a long history in the Church , far longer than my previous subject . |
| 30 | Prague has a long history of defenestrations and in 1948 Jan Masaryk , the foreign minister , the founding president 's son and one of only three non-communist ministers in the government , was found dead , having apparently exited from his office window . |