Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] history [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It has a continuous history of woodland cover going back 700 years and provides a habitat for a huge variety of plant , bird and butterfly life . |
| 3 | Strathclyde has a substantial history of take-up campaigns , some of which were undertaken with the full co-operation of the DSS . |
| 4 | In Type I disease , the calves have usually been set-stocked in one area for several moths ; in contrast , Type II disease often has a typical history of calves being grazed on a field from spring to mid-summer , then moved and brought back to the original field in the autumn . |
| 5 | Objectivity is itself an ideal which has a long history of identification with the masculine . |
| 6 | Egypt is another example of a country which , like Pakistan and China , has a long history of irrigation , in this case in the Nile Valley ( section 3.4.2 ) beginning some 5 kyr BP . |
| 7 | Songqiao ( 1988 ) describes that of the Hexi corridor which is situated between the Mongolian and Tibetan plateaux and which has a long history of cultivation based on irrigation . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | One consequence is that mainstream political science has a long history of insensitivity to issues of gender . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The valley has a long history of fact and legend , and age has mellowed its few buildings . |
| 12 | It was pointed out that contrary to the rose-tinted spectacles view , Britain has a long history of riot and disorder . |
| 13 | But despite the fact that it seems inhospitable , Dartmoor has a long history of use by humans . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The practice of coppicing has a long history in Britain . |
| 16 | The use of an outsider to observe what happens in a school has a long history in Britain through the process of formal school inspection . |
| 17 | Anti-parliamentarianism has a long history in France . |
| 18 | VOLUNTARY service has a long history in America . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This kind of research has a long history in psychology and education but is relatively undeveloped in the rest of social science . |
| 21 | The concept of social disorganization , for example , which has a long history in sociology , assumes its contrast to be with a ‘ community ’ , a harmoniously well-organized and integrated society . |
| 22 | Oxford has a tragic history of student parties . |
| 23 | The obstacles to preventive research are found in many countries , including Britain , which has a distinguished history in epidemiology , public health , and preventive medicine . |
| 24 | He 's since written a 4-volume history of wartime intelligence and has little doubt about Bletchley 's significance . |
| 25 | He was born in the village and has written a short history of Scorton . |
| 26 | Detailed geochemical profiling of the lava sequences has revealed a complex history of eruption from magma chambers which , although linked in the same geotectonic setting , had individual development paths within the crust . |
| 27 | You can use the program to create a personal history of problems that are felt to be related to certain substances . |
| 28 | Even when one can see a similar history of decline or recovery , this did not necessarily occur in different towns at the same time ( 71 ) . |
| 29 | This union has got a long history of , this union 's got a long history of amalgamations , some conducted more successfully than others . |
| 30 | Between the years 1988 and 1991 I was engaged in researching a contemporary history of Venice . |