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

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1 The convent has a long tradition of illustrating cards and books with delicate hand-crafted watercolours and inscriptions .
2 The approach of classroom testing against the hearing norms has a long tradition among educators and researchers .
3 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 .
4 The Social Work Department has a long tradition of working in collaboration with other service providers .
5 Established in 1912 , Olympus has a long tradition of good design , using the finest materials and quality craftsmanship .
6 Scotland has a long tradition of exporting its talents .
7 Western philosophy has a long tradition so it is not surprising that it has changed over the centuries both in content and in method .
8 Ulster has a long tradition of rural industry and peasant agriculture .
9 A dislike by Irish clerics for such an explicit and direct church — state relationship has a long tradition and comes out best in De Tocqueville 's ( 1957 ) conversations with Irish clergy on his visit to Ireland in 1834 .
10 The LGC has a long tradition of providing support services and policy advice to the government .
11 Outside those sectors where temporary working has a long tradition , they have usually vigorously condemned it .
12 While the formal approach has a long tradition , manifested in innumerable volumes of grammar , the functional approach is less well documented .
13 What is of particular interest is that direct investment overseas by such enterprises has become increasingly important over the post war years ( as opposed to portfolio investment , of which British capital has a long tradition ) , and that this phenomenon is especially important for the British economy .
14 Research on natural hazards has a long tradition in geography going back more than half a century .
15 The concept of an independent development agency has a long tradition in Britain .
16 That area of Aberdeenshire has a long tradition of producing outstanding personalities .
17 This country has a long tradition of accepting genuine political refugees , but there is no doubt that the fact that three quarters of all applications are made by people who have been living in this country for weeks , months and , in some cases , years , is tantamount to an abuse of the system .
18 The main exponents of this approach — writers like Hyman , Beynon and Fox — all take conflict to be a major structural component of employment ; although we should also note that sociology in fact has a longer tradition of exploring the distinctive problems of explanation and understanding associated with industrial conflict ( eg. Eldridge , 1968 ) .
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