Example sentences of "[verb] a history [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two patients with impaired peristalsis and oesophagitis reported a history of symptoms but not during the study period . |
| 2 | It is not the purpose of this book to provide a history of coinage , however brief , but rather to focus on the methods by which coins are studied , for only when these methods are properly understood and applied can we realise the full potential of coins as an aid to interpreting the past . |
| 3 | Sheikh Mohammed 's nine-year-old has a history of leg trouble and has been absent since his Cheltenham triumph in March . |
| 4 | Dixton House has a history of leg trouble . |
| 5 | JOHN Bryan 's glamorous personal assistant has a history of mischief herself . |
| 6 | Pavlovo is about 300 miles east of Moscow and has a history of metal craft . |
| 7 | Ask if the patient has a history of lung disease . |
| 8 | This could happen in a high-stress job where the executive concerned has a history of heart trouble . |
| 9 | Apparently he has a history of COADs — chronic obstructive airways disease . |
| 10 | Anyone who has a history of epilepsy ( even if that condition is being fully controlled by medication ) should never on any account be hypnotized , as the process of entering the appropriate altered state of mind can actually trigger off an epileptic fit . |
| 11 | Local residents fear that shock waves from any blasting operation could disturb old mineshaft workings in the area , which has a history of subsidence problems . |
| 12 | Indeed , as chief executive Corrado Passera pointed out , Olivetti has a history of investment in the personal communications sector . |
| 13 | The argument is therefore not about police control or a utopia without controls , but to explore why some cultural behaviour has a history of police action and to discover where that behaviour fits into police ideology . |
| 14 | ‘ Medicine has a problem — it has a history of sexism and classism . |
| 15 | Shortly after , the Sheerwater section , which has a history of troubles , began leaking , and the canal below St. Johns had to be closed for the rest of the summer . |
| 16 | An industrial relations expert , who has written a history of cotton unions , has remarked that whereas general historians of the labour movement report only sporadic trade unionism in that industry in the eigh-teenth century , historians of the district or of the industry tend to assume a continuous collective labour presence . |
| 17 | In the same way , an economy 's laws record a history of solutions to problems of monopoly and theft and then of solutions to the loopholes and opportunities those first laws opened . |
| 18 | Only three of 16 patients did not report a history of heartburn or acid regurgitation or during the study period ; all three had normal peristalsis and no oesophagitis . |
| 19 | Buttonhook has had a history of epics — possibly 5b ? |
| 20 | ‘ I explained that I was 31 , I 'd had a history of infertility , and that this was my second pregnancy and I really wanted a child . |
| 21 | I admitted he visited me but that I 'd had a history of violence with him , and anyway I 'd got an injunction . |
| 22 | Party Politics , who stands at 18 hands , has had a history of wind problems and before and after last year 's National he had two operations to improve his breathing . |
| 23 | By contrast , some of the older countries , who got a history of calm and stability , they have Anthems which try to bring out the beauty of the country . |
| 24 | As McKechnie Jess says , it has proved that , even in a sector which lacks a history of innovation , it is possible , through effective marketing , to change the shape of an established product . |
| 25 | ‘ Not only do you not wear a wedding-ring , but you have the air , the aura of sexual uncertainty which belies a history of nights spent in connubial bliss . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ We do n't have a history of twins in the family — and , in any case , there 's a proverb : lightning never strikes twice in the same place , right ? ’ |
| 27 | Does the person have a history of violence , antagonism to ‘ authority ’ , or of mental disturbance associated with irrational feelings of persecution ? |
| 28 | Each child is to function as an ‘ expert ’ with all that implies of seeing the surgeon 's knife as a specimen , as a tool , as a crafted artefact , as having a history of metal from the earth , of man 's invention , of factory organisation , of training in high-quality skills . |
| 29 | Maternal risk factors known at booking were age under 18 or over 35 ; primiparity or parity of more than three ; being in manual or non-manual work ; being less than 158 cm tall ; attending antenatal care after 18 weeks ' gestation ; having diabetes ; being a smoker ; being of Asian origin ; having a history of infertility ; having a husband in social class III manual , IV , or V ; and having a general practitioner not on the obstetric list . |
| 30 | Conditions vary from organization to organization and across different parts of the public sector , some organizations being noted for having a history of indifference to internal audit . |