Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [adj] history " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | These 11 large folio books , designated ‘ The Lawrence Notebooks ’ , were compiled over 30 years from the 1890s and contain detailed notes for a comprehensive history of stage scenery and technical appliances , together with lives of the most prominent scenic artists . |
| 2 | Joyce , frustrated , moved on to consideration of yesterday 's weather , complaints about the new trainee and an attempt to enlist Helen 's support in resisting the county librarian 's enthusiasm for a local history section at Spaxton . |
| 3 | Similarly , events arising out of long-standing difficulties would increase risk of depression : where , for instance , a husband left home after years of arguing and discord ; a child was arrested for burglary after a long history of behavioural problems at home and school ; or a substantial fine was incurred after a long period of extreme financial difficulty ( Brown et al. , 1987 ) . |
| 4 | This little study , when set in the appropriate context , was turned into a short piece for a local history magazine . |
| 5 | In the Netherlands , as a result of a long history of legislative enactment in socio-economic affairs and close involvement of unions and employers with government in this area the two national employers ' confederations ( denominational and non-denominational ) also carry somewhat greater weight than their member associations . |
| 6 | We have tried to sum up the fragments of information which we have for the last three centuries in our second chapter , ‘ Glimpses of a Lost History ’ . |
| 7 | Glimpses of a Lost History |
| 8 | The objections to the use of the term case management has resulted in the abandonment of a term with a long history of service use , evaluation and exploration , and the substitution of one with few if any empirical referents at all . |
| 9 | The oldest patient in the study was a 92-year-old retired college professor who was admitted from the emergency department with a 3-day history of productive cough , dyspnoea , and fever . |
| 10 | Just when the hero really needs the girl 's help , she stands revealed as a killer with a long history of leading enslaved men to destruction , a siren wrapped in furs and degeneracy , venom in her veins , murder in her mind … |
| 11 | The case was the latest episode in a long history of antagonism between the government and the Far Eastern Economic Review , the circulation of which had been severely restricted in Singapore . |
| 12 | This , however , is an over-simplified view as the current phase of uplift and volcanicity represents only the most recent episode in a complex history stretching back to the Mesozoic ; moreover , the history of this vast mountain system differs greatly from one part to another . |
| 13 | Unlike the previous two , this film attempts to convey the nature of the fighting within a brief history of the war . |
| 14 | All that now remains is a single tower , a poor monument to a long history of noble residences on the site . |
| 15 | Fausto establishes a crucially sceptical perspective on the rhetoric of texts , since he sees through the ‘ fiction of continuity , the fiction of cause and effect , the fiction of a humanized history endowed with ‘ reason ’ ’ ( Pynchon 1975b : 306 ) . |
| 16 | French intellectual debates and revolutions are part of a specific history and culture , expressing their complex dynamics . |
| 17 | Many a time they had drunk thus together , as boys , as youths , as men , and come out under the same starlit sky to walk beside each other up the familiar High Street where every house was a landmark and every face part of a shared history . |
| 18 | The recommendations in Form 22 lack legal force but they are a part of a long-standing history in which such verdicts have been recorded . |
| 19 | But it 's not part of a natural history display — it 's a work of art . |
| 20 | Skelton is a village with a long history and an attractive character in the area of the church . |
| 21 | Although mineral rights are generally held by the surface landowner , they may have been retained by a previous landowner when the surface freehold was sold , particularly in areas with a long history of mining such as South-west England . |
| 22 | They may be liberal , but there is a certain minimum reference to a particular history , above all to a certain person , which is not to be avoided if one is to call oneself Christian . |
| 23 | The diagnosis can be made clinically by careful abdominal examination after a suggestive history has been obtained . |
| 24 | Paragraph 2.9 of the Code of Practice to the Act makes it clear that a person can be detained on the basis of a known history of mental illness following non-compliance with medication . |
| 25 | In the face of a history which obscures such discontinuities , the first stage for Foucault , therefore , is to defamiliarize it by reconstituting it without the mythology of a continuous History which has turned difference into identity . |
| 26 | Foucault , and those influenced by him , have displayed a great scepticism about the possibilities of a conventional history : Foucault stresses that his work is basically aimed at constructing a ‘ genealogy ’ , the locating of the ‘ traces ’ of the present rather than reconstructing the past . |
| 27 | But the ‘ national ’ problem of-Kosovo is a consequence of a long history of Serbian oppression and chauvinism , which has provoked the natural response of Albanian nationalism . |
| 28 | However , in order to expose the nature of capitalism , Marx first had to show that capitalism is not based on some eternal immutable truth , as presented by economists , but is the product of a long history . |
| 29 | ‘ A welcoming town with a colourful history . ’ |
| 30 | Riva is a welcoming town with a colourful history revealed in its sombre 12th century fortress — surrounded by moats now used for boat moorings . |