Example sentences of "have a [adj] history [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has a strange history and to understand it it is necessary to turn the clock back eight thousand years , to the moment when the first cats were being domesticated in the Middle East . |
| 2 | MANTES , caught up in the coils of the Seine in northern France , has a rich history and is proud of its association with the great Impressionist painters . |
| 3 | The latter has a chequered history and has been altered several times within its life in Poland . |
| 4 | It has a long history and in 1843 twelve Bronze Age artefacts and two portions of a sword were found whilst digging a drain . |
| 5 | The matter has a long history and is illustrative of how law can lag behind what is thought to be economically desirable . |
| 6 | As we pointed out earlier , the kind of model for insider evaluation that Shipman proposes has a long history and there is little evidence that it has been significantly displaced by newer alternatives . |
| 7 | Like copyright , patent law has a long history and has developed as a means of protecting innovation which has a benefit to innovator and public alike . |
| 8 | Savory has a longer history than sage , though not considered to be as useful medicinally . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | In this approach the particle is not supposed to have a single history or path in space-time , as it would in a classical , nonquantum theory . |
| 12 | The base had a long history as home to the packers , as well as medical and catering units . |
| 13 | Indeed , the over spill factor had a longer history than a concern with post-coal industrial restructuring , since the plans of the 1940s and early 1950s had assumed stable employment in coal . |
| 14 | One Tuesday and the other Tuesday have a local history and third Tuesday have something else . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The patient should also be seen alone and have a careful history and physical examination taken . |