Example sentences of "[adv] have a [adj] history " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been less successful where the difficulty already has a long-standing history in our own school . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But Greek knowledge of Egypt , and the Greek presence there , already had a 300-year history when Peukestas put up his notice . |
| 4 | There had been a current of antipathy to the strict Calvinist view of the child throughout the seventeenth century ; and the concept that , given the right environment and the proper course of education , compassion and benevolence , the essential goodness of the child would triumph over its propensity for evil , already had a longish history . |
| 5 | Subsidies were resumed in 1961 and thereafter had a chequered history with changing problems in housing supply and differing political judgements ( Burnett , 1978 ) . |
| 6 | I think that 's what Priest , I mean I do n't know , Priest probably has a whole history of how he got is Esquire style , but Vincent went over there and had something to do with it , and I really think that taking the old style stuff and giving it a new spin helped , and the difference between what we 're doing and what the California crowd was doing — and this was also the time of punk rock — was that we were using traditional typefaces and they were |
| 7 | Biotechnology , in the form of plant and animal breeding , also has a long history , beginning with the first agriculturalists c. 10 kyr BP , but developments in genetic engineering in the 1970s and 1980s are opening up possibilities that have no historical parallels and thus there are no base-line data against which it is possible to predict future environmental changes that genetically engineered organisms may promote . |
| 8 | Bulgaria also had a long history of Byzantine building of churches and monasteries but remains of original work are not numerous or of high quality . |
| 9 | The Andes also have a long history of human occupation which has transformed the landscape . |
| 10 | The Orkneys and Shetland also have a long history of independence in local government terms and pride themselves on their Scandinavian roots and their distinctiveness from Scotland . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | These impromptu , ‘ unofficial ’ urban commons often have a natural history that is both rich and unique to a particular area : a blend of wild animals and plants with ‘ escapes ’ from gardens long gone . |
| 13 | If these changes in family structure and parental roles are of recent origin , current political dimensions of child care policy , which have rarely been more prominent than today , surely have a longer history . |
| 14 | In the Carboniferous and Permian the insects were highly diverse , and there is still debate over how closely these forms are related to our living fauna : some forms , like the cockroaches , undoubtedly have a long history . |