Example sentences of "[noun] have a [adj] history " in BNC.
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| 1 | This progress has a fraught history , however . |
| 2 | The rivalry between these three clubs has an unusual history . |
| 3 | Literature has a long history of feminist interest , but film and media studies are certainly as central to feminist cultural debates . |
| 4 | Talk of a realignment on the centre-left of the spectrum has a long history . |
| 5 | Yet this ancient borough has a maritime history as rich and proud as any West Country port . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This is particularly necessary on white farms where bonded labour has a notorious history . |
| 8 | You 've got to remember that David has a 20-year history of being a rock star , and he 's broken his word and come back from retirement about three times . |
| 9 | The technique of biomass gasification by partial combustion has a long history . |
| 10 | This kind of research has a long history in psychology and education but is relatively undeveloped in the rest of social science . |
| 11 | The male Moodies had a long history of accidental death . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | One Tuesday and the other Tuesday have a local history and third Tuesday have something else . |
| 14 | The wooded area is nice enough but the schools have a long history of desegregation problems , and are now 88% black and 10% Hispanic . |
| 15 | In Britain the divisions between the public health , general practice and hospital sectors have a long history of often quite bitter dispute . |
| 16 | Local government audit has a long history . |
| 17 | East Anglia has a peculiar history also , so far as its landscape is concerned . |
| 18 | The village has a long history . |
| 19 | The village has an ancient history dating back to Roman times ( the remains of a Roman wall testify to this ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In Scotland , the ordinary degree has an honourable history and a recognized status , but it is still not honours ; and in the rest of the country , ordinary degrees are often perceived as second-rate qualifications . |
| 22 | But 41 year old Gould had a long history of crime . |
| 23 | It also seemed obvious that the universe had a unique history , yet since the discovery of quantum mechanics , we have had to consider the universe as having every possible history . |
| 24 | Always the police prefer to exhibit bodily constraint in their styles , for restraint and decorum have a symbolic history as an indication of subcultural insider purity , a comfort with a vanishing status quo , and a rejection of the changing outside world . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Strathclyde has a substantial history of take-up campaigns , some of which were undertaken with the full co-operation of the DSS . |
| 29 | ‘ Monpazier has a chequered history , torn between French and English , Catholic and Protestant . |
| 30 | Anti-parliamentarianism has a long history in France . |