Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [adj] history " in BNC.
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1 | In this case the immediate position defended ( contra the work of Wyld and Zachrisson ) is that orthoepic evidence is better than other evidence , such as ‘ occasional spellings ’ ( Wyld , 1936 ) , but the underlying assumption ( which is more relevant here ) is that it is possible to write a continuous unilinear history of ‘ standard ’ English pronunciation . |
2 | It is no exaggeration to say that today in the EC it would be possible to write a detailed personal history of every man , woman and child from the information contained in a variety of computer files . |
3 | If an event occurred a detailed clinical history was taken , including the time , state ( awake or asleep ) , person(s) present at onset , the observed clinical signs , and the time at which the skin po 2 value resulted in an alarm . |
4 | Their difficulty arises because they are implicitly using a classical concept of reality in which an object has a definite single history . |
5 | Mexico has a long culinary history and is therefore a must for any travelling cook . |
6 | The construction of the black man as rapist has a long racist history . |
7 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
8 | Mystical experience as a peculiarly human goal has a long cultural history which bears on the way these writers express themselves . |
9 | But if a system has a single definite history , the uncertainty principle leads to all sorts of paradoxes , like the particles being in two places at once or astronauts being only half on the moon . |
10 | But it is also worth noting that evidence has been found of burials and drainage channels that appears to be pre-date any of the recorded cathedral buildings , and it now looks as if the site has a longer ecclesiastical history than was thought . ’ |
11 | Revision mapping of the area south of the Slochd summit has revealed a complex tectonothermal history within the psammitic and semipelitic gneisses of the Central Highland Migmatite Complex ; it can be shown that the metagabbro bodies , described in the 1989/90 Annual Report , were emplaced at a distinct tectonostratigraphical level in the metasedimentary sequence . |
12 | ‘ It is no easy thing for a person like Wilson , whose family has had a complex religious history — his father , for example , was a … er … |
13 | When Richard Burnell made a little sporting history . |
14 | The book in other ways also reflects how little they had yet formulated a detailed evolutionary history of society . |
15 | It 's small enough to carry on the hill , but the historical introductions get together to give a good potted history of the Golden Age of Alpinism . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | All the models of passive rifting discussed so far assume that rifting is more or less a symmetric process ; that is , we would expect the opposing passive margins formed through continental break-up to have a similar structure and morphology because they have experienced a similar tectonic history . |
18 | The author has compiled a comprehensive illustrated history of vessels involved in oceanographic research stretching over 150 years , and appearing in alphabetical order of the name by which they were known while carrying out their work . |
19 | All patients gave a full medical history and had a full examination , and routine investigations for bladder outflow obstruction were performed . |
20 | I do n't know whether there was anyone there from BBC Television , but if there was , he or she would have had no doubt who should be the person to present a regular natural history programme if and when they got round to it . |
21 | Well , I 've a chequered domestic history , I 'm just in the middle of a second divorce . |
22 | He also wrote a scholarly illustrated history of the Royal College 's portraits . |
23 | The book had a strange subsequent history in that five distinct editions , totalling perhaps 50,000 copies , were reprinted for use by the Federal troops in the American Civil War ( 1861–65 ) , more than two hundred years after the other Civil War . |
24 | Patients with severe oesophagitis ( median 38.5 , range 27–55 years ) and adenocarcinoma patients had a similar long history of smoking both of which were greater than CLO patients ( p<0.003 ) . |
25 | Severe oesophagitis patients had a similar long history of smoking to adenocarcinoma patients ( median 38.5 , range 27–55 years ) ; again much greater than CLO patients ( p<0.003 ) ( Fig 3 ) . |
26 | It is of course true that each of the three elements in the circumstance as described was itself an effect of something else , and , further , had a whole causal history . |
27 | They are expected to take a full medical history and perform a physical examination . |
28 | Many of the other facts of life that we now take for granted in psychobiology , like the identity of neurotransmitter substances , the actual structure of the synapse , and the availability of reliable methods for tracing connections in the central nervous system have a similar short history . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | Helped by Mr Jorge Vicente , they have spent many years sorting and cataloguing the 100,000-plus glass negatives , and further collections from other old photography studios have been added to make a complete photographic history of the island and those who visited it . |