Example sentences of "[verb] [art] long [adj] history " in BNC.
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1 | Mexico has a long culinary history and is therefore a must for any travelling cook . |
2 | The construction of the black man as rapist has a long racist history . |
3 | ‘ Transport ’ ( line 2 ) means ‘ rapturous emotion ’ ; ‘ vicissitude ’ ( line 4 ) has a long poetic history going back to Milton — it means ‘ alternation ’ , or ‘ change of circumstances ’ . |
4 | Mystical experience as a peculiarly human goal has a long cultural history which bears on the way these writers express themselves . |
5 | But orang-utans were never as terrestrial as chimpanzees , for the species lacks the knuckle-walking adaptations of the African apes and its limb proportions indicate a long arboreal history . |
6 | Predator species have a long evolutionary history , and it is inferred that they have been as important in the past as accumulators of small mammal bone as they are today . |