Example sentences of "[noun] have a long history of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Literature has a long history of feminist interest , but film and media studies are certainly as central to feminist cultural debates . |
| 2 | The male Moodies had a long history of accidental death . |
| 3 | The wooded area is nice enough but the schools have a long history of desegregation problems , and are now 88% black and 10% Hispanic . |
| 4 | In Britain the divisions between the public health , general practice and hospital sectors have a long history of often quite bitter dispute . |
| 5 | But 41 year old Gould had a long history of crime . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | North Shields has a long history of democratic local government and is currently under the political control of the most left-wing Labour authority in the North East . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The CAB has a long history of mobilising professionals such as lawyers , accountants and surveyors , to advise clients on a voluntary basis but there are very few lawyers who specialise in welfare benefits or money advice . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | As outlined earlier , low temperatures past and present are also indicated by the evidence that the Moon has a long history of outer rigidity . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Many mothers with parenting difficulties had a long history of emotional problems themselves , and seemed generally lacking in sensitivity to their children 's anxieties and needs rather than deficient in specific child management techniques . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , the latter insult is somewhat inaccurate : animators have a long history of injecting a little ‘ adult ’ spice into what is essentially a children 's medium . |
| 15 | But despite the fact that it seems inhospitable , Dartmoor has a long history of use by humans . |
| 16 | Elves and Dwarves have a long history of hate yet Legolas and Gimli become friends because they travel in Frodo 's company together . |
| 17 | It was pointed out that contrary to the rose-tinted spectacles view , Britain has a long history of riot and disorder . |
| 18 | Bourgeois individualism has a long history of subversive bohemian variants ; and the struggle for control of the elements of counter cultural musical style was a struggle between different aspects of the same principle . |
| 19 | The valley has a long history of fact and legend , and age has mellowed its few buildings . |
| 20 | One consequence is that mainstream political science has a long history of insensitivity to issues of gender . |
| 21 | It may seem obvious to suggest that the level of understanding about purchasing among general practitioners and primary health care teams is extremely varied , but primary care has a long history of suffering from being physically distanced from other parts of the service and the discussions taking place there . |
| 22 | WUS and educational assistance to South Africa WUS International and WUS(UK) have a long history of supporting the efforts of the black majority of South Africans to overcome the educational discrimination which is an integral part of apartheid . |
| 23 | Social theory of the family has a long history of debate on structural explanations , that is on whether family types adapt as appropriate to the social and economic world . |
| 24 | In Tanzania , for example , the Dodoma section of the semi-arid central region has a long history of both accelerated soil erosion and attempts at conservation . |
| 25 | The region has a long history of human activity ( section 3.2.1 ) , and although erosion has always been a problem it has intensified considerably in the last 100 years as deforestation has accelerated and grasslands have been degraded . |
| 26 | John had a long history of academic failure . |
| 27 | Although most nomadic tribes have a long history of weaving rugs specifically for trade , a number of items coming onto the western market may well have been made originally for personal use . |