Example sentences of "had [art] [adj] history " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it gives no indication that the pricing problems may have had a long history . |
| 2 | This week 's extension of the suspension has lead to a further letter to unit trust holders.But it gives no indication that the pricing problems may have had a long history . |
| 3 | I have had a long history of muscular trouble , of a weak back . |
| 4 | Afghanistan has had a long history of neutrality and non-alignment which Soviet leaders have assiduously fostered . |
| 5 | This question too has had a long history though it is only quite recently that it has become a precisely defined issue of zoological theory . |
| 6 | Sheffield was a very different type of town , but like most other places that developed into great Victorian cities it had already had a long history as a market and craft centre . |
| 7 | That stone has had a curious history . |
| 8 | Originally a Celtic settlement and later a Roman one , it has had a stormy history . |
| 9 | But the block , like most of its kind , had had a chequered history . |
| 10 | The corporation has had a chequered history since then . |
| 11 | But in recent years Microvitec has had a chequered history . |
| 12 | The shop has had a chequered history : it opened as a Sherratt & Hughes , and was an early incursion by a chain retailer into an area dominated by , and largely reserved for , independents . |
| 13 | It has had a chequered history , including use as a powder magazine . |
| 14 | However , despite their enormous popularity , personality tests , on their own , have had a disappointing history in predicting behaviour at work . |
| 15 | The professors went on : ‘ We are speaking not as members of this or that nation , continent or creed but as human beings , members of the species Man whose continued existence is in doubt … a biological species which has had a remarkable history and whose disappearance none of us can desire . ’ |
| 16 | This century alone , Berlin has had an extraordinary history — a natural , social , cultural and political centre , because of its location at the crossroads of east and west Europe . |
| 17 | It is an old and rather like able town which , standing where it does , so near to the edge of France and commanding the coast road into Spain , has had an agitated history with numerous episodes of war . |