Example sentences of "[noun prp] have a [adj] history " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've got to remember that David has a 20-year history of being a rock star , and he 's broken his word and come back from retirement about three times . |
| 2 | The male Moodies had a long history of accidental death . |
| 3 | Verdun had a long history : it was an important city in Roman times ; Vauban , the great fortress builder of Louis XIV 's reign , had fortified it with ditches and bastions ; in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1 Verdun had withstood a siege of 10 weeks , falling only through lack of supplies . |
| 4 | One Tuesday and the other Tuesday have a local history and third Tuesday have something else . |
| 5 | East Anglia has a peculiar history also , so far as its landscape is concerned . |
| 6 | But 41 year old Gould had a long history of crime . |
| 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 | Strathclyde has a substantial history of take-up campaigns , some of which were undertaken with the full co-operation of the DSS . |
| 10 | ‘ Monpazier has a chequered history , torn between French and English , Catholic and Protestant . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Guinness has a long history in the African continent and has progressively extended its distribution in the last 30 years . |
| 13 | But despite the fact that it seems inhospitable , Dartmoor has a long history of use by humans . |
| 14 | The Lodge has an interesting history ; built in 1870 , it was once owned by a wealthy coal merchant who provided Hampton Court Palace ( just down the road ) with fuel . |
| 15 | Of those who smoked or drank , patients with CLO had a smoking history of a median 15 pack years ( range 2–60 pack years ) , which was less than both the severe oesophagitis ( median 45.5 , range 5–150 pack years ) ( p<0.01 ) , and adenocarcinoma groups ( median 55.25 , range 4–200 pack years ) ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 16 | Of those who smoked , patients with CLO had a smoking history of 15 median pack years ( range 2–60 pack years ) which was less than both the severe oesophagitis ( median 45.5 , range 5–150 pack years ; p<0.001 ) and adenocarcinoma groups ( median 55.25 , range 4–200 pack years ) ( p<0.001 ) ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 17 | It was pointed out that contrary to the rose-tinted spectacles view , Britain has a long history of riot and disorder . |
| 18 | SOUTH QUEENSFERRY Museum in Council Chambers has a local history display , including particularly interesting material on the building of the Forth railway bridge . |
| 19 | Oxford has a tragic history of student parties . |
| 20 | Brentford has a colourful history , its Market and Fair being recorded at the beginning of the fourteenth century , when the area was referred to as ‘ the Manor of Bratnford ’ . |
| 21 | Moreover , whereas America has a substantial history of the employment of professionals trained for their role ( most states lay down a minimum requirement of so many credit hours in education and library science at undergraduate and postgraduate levels ) , by far the majority of secondary school libraries in Britain are run in a few supposedly " free " periods during a week , by classroom teachers with little or no librarianship training . |
| 22 | It noted that ‘ Corbett McDonald has a long history as a lobbyist for the asbestos industry . |
| 23 | Montreuil has a fascinating history , it was once a port but it was abandoned by the sea years ago and is now 14 kilometres from the coast . |
| 24 | Dowsing has a long history . |
| 25 | Unlike un-historical nations , Poland had a long history to recall and refurbish . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It is little wonder that Fair Isle has an unenviable history of shipwrecks . |
| 28 | John had a long history of academic failure . |
| 29 | The cattle of Wales have a long history : they are usually described as ‘ Celtic ’ types which have been indigenous to Wales for many centuries . |