Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] long tradition " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concepts of each civilization , like the soil of its homeland , have been cultivated by a long tradition of directed effort , but in the last resort are not invented but given . |
| 2 | Again a scientist stands at the point which has at present been reached within a long tradition of enquiry . |
| 3 | Examples of the latter — attaching new connotations — would be the way musical elements of the bourgeois march were made to connote something different in nineteenth century labour anthems ; or the way the supposedly liberated individualist eclecticism of counter cultural 1960s rock — ‘ liberated ’ in the Marcusian sense — was , in a process of recuperation , re-articulated to the long tradition of bourgeois individual bohemianism . |
| 4 | It was not that what he said was startlingly new , for it was based on a long tradition , but his particular talent and novelty was that he managed to combine biblical exegesis with growing papal ideology , to induce the texts to mean something of relevance to his leadership of society . |
| 5 | Here again he was alerted by a long tradition of Greek search for barbarian philosophers and seers . |
| 6 | At the University of Edinburgh , where the Department of English Literature is the oldest-established in Great Britain , continuity is maintained with the long tradition of literary study here . |