Example sentences of "[pron] have a [adj] history " in BNC.
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| 1 | However the real benefit of the upgrade for walkers is increased waymarking and the opening up of new stretches of the 100 mile route which has a fascinating history . |
| 2 | The North American Cordillera , which has a tectonic history of bewildering complexity , has not been examined in detail in this chapter but various aspects of its evolution are considered by Dickinson ( 1976 ) , Eaton ( 1987 ) and Smith and Eaton ( 1978 ) . |
| 3 | In this second talk I want to mention a view which has a long history in the Church , far longer than my previous subject . |
| 4 | The concept of social disorganization , for example , which has a long history in sociology , assumes its contrast to be with a ‘ community ’ , a harmoniously well-organized and integrated society . |
| 5 | Thirty-seven per cent of the national dairy herd is of the Swedish Friesian ( SLB ) , which has a long history in the country . |
| 6 | Songqiao ( 1988 ) describes that of the Hexi corridor which is situated between the Mongolian and Tibetan plateaux and which has a long history of cultivation based on irrigation . |
| 7 | Objectivity is itself an ideal which has a long history of identification with the masculine . |
| 8 | This was known as the ‘ butty system ’ , which has a long history in the area ( Griffin , 1977 , p. 26 ) . |
| 9 | That city , which has a long history of communal grief in the memories of Irish immigrants and desperate experiences of unemployment , knew , intuitively , how to behave . |
| 10 | At one point Marjory had persuaded herself she would not get into Oxford and was resigned to her second choice , Royal Holloway and Bedford , which has a big history department . |
| 11 | The obstacles to preventive research are found in many countries , including Britain , which has a distinguished history in epidemiology , public health , and preventive medicine . |
| 12 | Voluntary organisations in many cases became the effective agents of enforcement , as well as pressure groups constantly campaigning for further intervention , and here they became quasi-state apparatuses , a pattern which had a long history . |
| 13 | The battle of politics and ideas which focuses on the inner city represents a conflict between sets of interests and values which have a long history , dating at least from the 1830s and the New Poor Law of 1834 . |
| 14 | He admitted that this would involve ‘ a change in mentalities , ways of thinking and prejudices , all of which have a long history ’ . |
| 15 | Feminist thinking does not , of course , exist in a vacuum , and in thinking about women 's autonomy , feminists have drawn on different ( and conflicting ) approaches to questions about the human self , some of which have a long history . |
| 16 | Faldo , who has a feud-ridden history with some members of the AGW , could be forgiven for thinking that this is yet another example of a lack of sympathy with his cause . |
| 17 | The Library itself has a fascinating history , described by M.V. Mathew recently in his History of the Royal Botanic Garden Library Edinburgh ( Edinburgh , HMSO , 1987 ) . |
| 18 | She had a past history of Crohn 's disease which was quiescent and she was taking oral contraceptives . |
| 19 | Candy , who had a long history of violence , reported that , while he was in Reading on 22 June , an Italian named Mike , whom he knew slightly , approached him and suggested that they rob a shopkeeper in the town . |
| 20 | The 1977–81 material is thought to be essentially complete , except for the exclusion of 12% who had a previous history of malignancy or had undergone gastric surgery or who were given the drug for another diagnosis than a peptic ulcer related disease . |
| 21 | Families of people with a learning disability might welcome a less intense form of case management than that offered to single male schizophrenia sufferers who have a long history of compulsory admission to hospital . |
| 22 | Other such opportunities might occur with people with recurring illness , or with couples considering divorce who have a long history of marital strife . |
| 23 | The protected class must also admit to its membership those who are not presently disabled but who have a previous history of disability , or who are wrongly perceived as being disabled . |
| 24 | We have a proud history of innovation . |
| 25 | I do n't know it may be that I 'll be the only member er that talks in terms of a specific Euro seat er in any detail but it does matter in our area and we have a long history of arguing that case . |
| 26 | This Tokyo factory is the one that makes the modern Schecter guitars as well as the Casio synth guitars and Kramer electrics ( recently deceased ) so they 've a long history of making quality instruments . |
| 27 | In the secondary sector they have a long history of influence as local employers . |
| 28 | They have a long history of use in planning practice , there is a wide measure of consensus about their use in control and , where covered by policy , it tends to be as broad , flexible statements in structure or local plans , amplified in detail in supplementary planning guidance . |
| 29 | Perhaps Upton people are right to say that because they have a tremendous history . |
| 30 | It has a continuous history of woodland cover going back 700 years and provides a habitat for a huge variety of plant , bird and butterfly life . |