Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] a long history " in BNC.
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| 1 | Literature has a long history of feminist interest , but film and media studies are certainly as central to feminist cultural debates . |
| 2 | Talk of a realignment on the centre-left of the spectrum has a long history . |
| 3 | The Association has a long history ( dating back to the end of the last century ) , and the ESRC funded project will complement existing work on the period before 1946 . |
| 4 | The technique of biomass gasification by partial combustion has a long history . |
| 5 | This kind of research has a long history in psychology and education but is relatively undeveloped in the rest of social science . |
| 6 | The male Moodies had a long history of accidental death . |
| 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 | The wooded area is nice enough but the schools have a long history of desegregation problems , and are now 88% black and 10% Hispanic . |
| 9 | In Britain the divisions between the public health , general practice and hospital sectors have a long history of often quite bitter dispute . |
| 10 | Local government audit has a long history . |
| 11 | The village has a long history . |
| 12 | Like copyright , patent law has a long history and has developed as a means of protecting innovation which has a benefit to innovator and public alike . |
| 13 | But 41 year old Gould had a long history of crime . |
| 14 | The remote rural areas have a long history of continuing depopulation : there are problems of farm structure and current argument about land use in general raises important issues of concern for the future . |
| 15 | North Shields has a long history of democratic local government and is currently under the political control of the most left-wing Labour authority in the North East . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Anti-parliamentarianism has a long history in France . |
| 18 | Films were cast for an international market in the Hollywood of the 1920s ; and international press syndication had a long history . |
| 19 | Just as the Biesbosch on the Rhine delta was a centre for the Dutch underground opposition to Hitler , so the English wetlands have a long history as centres of resistance . |
| 20 | These ideas have a long history going back to sources such as Aristotle , Archimedes , Galen , and Boethius . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The assertion that law is unsuitable or unable to deal with family and personal behaviour has a long history . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | As outlined earlier , low temperatures past and present are also indicated by the evidence that the Moon has a long history of outer rigidity . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 27 | Guinness has a long history in the African continent and has progressively extended its distribution in the last 30 years . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | VOLUNTARY service has a long history in America . |
| 30 | That notion had a long history , and had by no means been deserted by post-classical law . |