Example sentences of "have a history " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the crowd scenes every character has a history — the chaotic spontaneity is deceptive , and improvisation is out . |
| 3 | As we might speak of the culture of the Hebrides , or as W. H. Rivers wrote of the culture of Melanesia , so we speak of the culture of the European West to describe a set of outlooks , aims and ways of life , which has a history in the past of Europe and has spread to other parts of the world . |
| 4 | It has a history that goes back to Morgan and Drake , a history of piracy and corruption that reaches down to the present day . |
| 5 | Even the pop consumer 's body has a history . |
| 6 | Belgium has a history of unstable governments . |
| 7 | This type of tree has a history extending back to the upper Cretaceous . |
| 8 | Indeed it is unusual to find a fresh case of genital herpes in someone who has a history of cold sores , although it does occur in some cases . |
| 9 | You see this department has a history . |
| 10 | Based in Bristol , Sun Life has a history that stretches back as far as 1810 . |
| 11 | Thus , although capitalism is blamed by many workers for the treatment older people receive today , it is clear that ageism has a history which long predates this form of social organisation . |
| 12 | This could happen in a high-stress job where the executive concerned has a history of heart trouble . |
| 13 | The notion of precatory words ( verba precativa or precaria ) has a history not altogether straightforward . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The harbour town of Watchet has a history going back over a thousand years and is still an active trading port . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Medicine has a problem — it has a history of sexism and classism . |
| 18 | Sheikh Mohammed 's nine-year-old has a history of leg trouble and has been absent since his Cheltenham triumph in March . |
| 19 | ‘ The lad has a history of moving on in the game . |
| 20 | It has a history that limits what the characters and the author can do with words . |
| 21 | In the New York court system , a mugger is automatically declared not guilty if the defense can prove the victim has a history of making eye contact . |
| 22 | JOHN Bryan 's glamorous personal assistant has a history of mischief herself . |
| 23 | It is only if we can read that record that we can discover some very important biological characteristics of human beings , since ( to repeat an earlier point ) it is through convention , convention that has a history , that human nature is expressed . |
| 24 | ‘ Race ’ has a history of supplementing and replacing class as a representation of deviance in psychology . |
| 25 | A study of child prostitution in Britain , America and West Germany reports that ‘ every runaway child who goes into full-time child prostitution has a history of continual and profound family conflict ’ ( Sereny , 1984 ) . |
| 26 | Indeed , as chief executive Corrado Passera pointed out , Olivetti has a history of investment in the personal communications sector . |
| 27 | The basis for this offer is the fact known by the cops and the criminals that the judge in the case has a history of giving reduced sentences and often clemency to guilty criminals who truly show remorse ; the judge also believes that co-operation with the police is proof that a criminal regrets his behaviour . |
| 28 | North Forest has a history of administrative instability , near-insolvency and crime ; one high school was partly burnt down . |
| 29 | Each element in the communication processes of which media are a part has a history of its own : the media organizations , the changing technology , the contents , the audiences . |
| 30 | Border has a history of reacting to situations before considering all the consequences . |