Example sentences of "long [adj] history " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mystical experience as a peculiarly human goal has a long cultural history which bears on the way these writers express themselves . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 3 | Evidence of its long lively history is abundant in the village and although some of it is impressively obvious , much of it is tucked away in farmyards and back gardens . |
| 4 | A separate area is being given to modern day Stoddard , this time representing a thriving Company of significance with a long established history . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | AT LAST there is a bright spot in the long dark history of Alzheimer 's disease , the most prevalent senile dementia . |
| 7 | Considering the long anti-semitic history of the Foreign Office which always shares the Arab viewpoint this demonstrates a curious pragmatism . |
| 8 | Lord Scarman referred to violence and disorder ‘ the like of which had not previously been seen in this century in Britain ’ , while one Conservative MP summed up this orthodox reaction in a parliamentary debate ( on 13 April 1981 ) when he spoke of the riots as ‘ something new and sinister in our long national history ’ . |
| 9 | Mexico has a long culinary history and is therefore a must for any travelling cook . |
| 10 | The construction of the black man as rapist has a long racist history . |
| 11 | The finish of the Athens copy seems both clearer and subtler , though this is no doubt due in part to overworking of the Choiseul-Gouffier during its long modern history . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We can also begin to see the broad outlines of a much longer connected history of respectable fears surrounding the demoralising influences of popular amusements . |
| 14 | However , rather than seeing " English " as this recently invented pedagogic and academic regime , the Committee seeks to constitute recent developments as a simple extension to a much longer national history . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |