Example sentences of "has a long [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Objectivity is itself an ideal which has a long history of identification with the masculine .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 ‘ 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 .
5 One consequence is that mainstream political science has a long history of insensitivity to issues of gender .
6 Social theory of the family has a long history of debate on structural explanations , that is on whether family types adapt as appropriate to the social and economic world .
7 The valley has a long history of fact and legend , and age has mellowed its few buildings .
8 It was pointed out that contrary to the rose-tinted spectacles view , Britain has a long history of riot and disorder .
9 But despite the fact that it seems inhospitable , Dartmoor has a long history of use by humans .
10 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 .
11 This kind of research has a long history in psychology and education but is relatively undeveloped in the rest of social science .
12 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 .
13 It is possibly true of ‘ Bonn ’ : Germany has a long tradition of unease about England which has been kept alive.and well in influential papers such as Die Zeit and elsewhere .
14 It has a long tradition of settlement , the hill having been a fortified place since the mid-tenth century .
15 Research on natural hazards has a long tradition in geography going back more than half a century .
16 Even if Hanson holds on to the British end of the ARC operation , it still has a long list of ConsGold assets to offload including :
17 Peter Settelen has a long list of television credits to his name , appearing in Crown Court and Z-Cars .
18 The human being ( a far more complex creature inhabiting a far more complex world ) needs to be highly adaptive and has a long period of play in which to build up a vast repertoire of behaviours .
19 Colin French has a long record for animal cruelty , and there were cheers in the public gallery as he was taken away .
20 MITI has a long record of concern with the dangers of excess capacity for capital intensive sectors .
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