Example sentences of "have a chequered history " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter has a chequered history and has been altered several times within its life in Poland . |
| 2 | ‘ Monpazier has a chequered history , torn between French and English , Catholic and Protestant . |
| 3 | But the block , like most of its kind , had had a chequered history . |
| 4 | The corporation has had a chequered history since then . |
| 5 | But in recent years Microvitec has had a chequered history . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It has had a chequered history , including use as a powder magazine . |
| 8 | The state thus assumed responsibility for deaf education but , as we shall see , its advance had a chequered history . |
| 9 | Subsidies were resumed in 1961 and thereafter had a chequered history with changing problems in housing supply and differing political judgements ( Burnett , 1978 ) . |