Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [adj] history [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Links , for example , have been made between a past history of sexual abuse and bulimia . |
| 2 | This low level of activity indicates a lack of extensive interior melting , or a thick lithosphere , or a lack of stress in the lithosphere , or some combination of all three , all of which can result from a long history of low internal temperatures . |
| 3 | It is also said that the Vikings introduced the finchback characteristic to Normandy in the ninth or tenth century and , according to a detailed history of the Gloucester breed by Adam Stout , there could be a common ancestry with the finchbacked Longhorn of Lancashire through Scandinavian cattle brought to Shetland , Ireland and Lancashire by the Vikings . |
| 4 | As far back as 1925 , he had dreamed of a complete history of the love allegory from Ovid to Spenser , and by 1928 two chapters of a more modest scheme , starting with the Provençal troubadours , were finished . |
| 5 | Explore the objects and evidence gathered from a long history of local excavation . |
| 6 | Each entry consists of a brief history of the building , followed by accounts of its conservation and that of individual works of art , such as the cleaning of Donatello 's ‘ St John the Baptist ’ in the Frari or the great stained glass window in SS . |
| 7 | The ideology of Hitler and his cronies derived from a long history of pseudo-philosophical state thuggery . |
| 8 | Start2 builds on a long history of arms accords and summits between Moscow and Washington . |
| 9 | By dissecting the brain of a 74-year-old man who died after a 14-year history of Alzheimer 's , DeLong and his co-workers showed a ‘ profound and selective loss ’ of Meynert cells , compared to brains of people who died without a history of dementia . |
| 10 | Most of Let Us Face the Future reads like a prospective history of the immediate post-war period . |
| 11 | It rested on a grant of authority over the whole country by Gregory to the first archbishop , followed by a long history of the exercise of this authority from the seventh century onwards . |
| 12 | The book itself could be described as a personal history of the Special Boat Service in World War II , as the author himself took part in several of the actions described . |
| 13 | Bob meanwhile , is working on a pictorial history of Gateshead , following his pictorial histories of Stockton , Middlesbrough and Guisborough . |
| 14 | It can not hope to be complete , but with luck Bromberg will even now be working on a detailed history of the TFTR experiment . |