Example sentences of "a long history " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ China has a long history of cuisine , a vast territory and abundant natural resources , many nationalities and a large population that has many regions and local diets and customs , ’ he explains , adding that Chinese chefs tended to create new dishes daily , as each cooking method , each style and the range of ingredients could be used to make up different combinations — traditional menus contained a minimum of 100 dishes named after methods . |
| 2 | More often than not the victims have serious medical problems , show a long history of social inadequacy , or are clearly suffering from mental illness . |
| 3 | We recall that the confessional idea has a long history . |
| 4 | Such associations of sexual deviance and political threat have a long history sedimented into our language and culture . |
| 5 | Talk of a realignment on the centre-left of the spectrum has a long history . |
| 6 | However , in order to expose the nature of capitalism , Marx first had to show that capitalism is not based on some eternal immutable truth , as presented by economists , but is the product of a long history . |
| 7 | This central role for private property has a long history in European thought and goes back to the eighteenth-century notion of the social contract . |
| 8 | Idealism has a long history in philosophy , going back at least to the Irish philosopher Berkeley , and it is sometimes attributed , as it was by Marx , to Plato . |
| 9 | More generally the idea of the inseparability of cultural and political revolution has a long history within the libertarian tradition with its roots in revolutionary Romanticism . |
| 10 | What 's more it 's one that , contrary to composites ' up-to-the-minute image , has a long history in the specialist motor industry . |
| 11 | But it gives no indication that the pricing problems may have had a long history . |
| 12 | This week 's extension of the suspension has lead to a further letter to unit trust holders.But it gives no indication that the pricing problems may have had a long history . |
| 13 | During a lawsuit brought by environmental groups against NMFS to compel observer coverage of the total US tuna fleet , the legal counsel for Earth Island Institute and the Marine Mammal Fund stated : ‘ The National Marine Fisheries Service has a long history of ignoring the will of Congress and working closely with the fishing industry . |
| 14 | VOLUNTARY service has a long history in America . |
| 15 | These ideas have a long history going back to sources such as Aristotle , Archimedes , Galen , and Boethius . |
| 16 | In this second talk I want to mention a view which has a long history in the Church , far longer than my previous subject . |
| 17 | I have had a long history of muscular trouble , of a weak back . |
| 18 | Prague has a long history of defenestrations and in 1948 Jan Masaryk , the foreign minister , the founding president 's son and one of only three non-communist ministers in the government , was found dead , having apparently exited from his office window . |
| 19 | Gaselee , 53 , has a long history in racing in several capacities . |
| 20 | The track would be constructed in Zhuhai , a capitalist-style special economic zone bordering Macau , the Portuguese enclave with a long history of grand prix racing . |
| 21 | Most , if not all , of the more seriously disadvantaged areas have experienced a long history of marginalisation and of dependence on distant or alien authorities . |
| 22 | The remote rural areas have a long history of continuing depopulation : there are problems of farm structure and current argument about land use in general raises important issues of concern for the future . |
| 23 | Britain has many advantages : a wealth of natural resources ; a long history of engagement with the rest of the world ; a mature and inventive people who value tolerance and freedom . |
| 24 | Anti-parliamentarianism has a long history in France . |
| 25 | A long history of water surpluses over much of the area of the Outer Hebrides has led to severe leaching of many Hebridean soils , and to the formation of peaty podzols , gleys and peaty gleys and ultimately peat itself ( Hudson et al . |
| 26 | In the Carboniferous and Permian the insects were highly diverse , and there is still debate over how closely these forms are related to our living fauna : some forms , like the cockroaches , undoubtedly have a long history . |
| 27 | Such calcareous algae ( see Plate 52 ) have a long history , extending back into the Precambrian , and they are still numerous today . |
| 28 | Like most other cities with a long history , Milan has evolved as a series of concentric rings . |
| 29 | In fact , this is probably , the most completely original church from the sixteenth-century in Milan and has a long history of being attended by the rich and powerful . |
| 30 | The writing was on the wall , however , and the fateful day eventually arrived in 1906 , when the last of the Eastington mills finally closed , putting large numbers out of work and ending a long history of cloth making in the parish . |