Example sentences of "have a [adj] tradition [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It has a distinctive tradition of expertise in the study both of non-industrialised and industrialised societies . |
2 | But , dating back to Biko 's days , the BCM has a strong tradition of ‘ non-collaboration , ’ which means shunning all contact with ‘ collaborators ’ serving in government-established institutions . |
3 | In the first place , the left has a strong tradition of defying authority , and smoking fits neatly into this . |
4 | Then came France , and now even Spain — which , like other Mediterranean countries , still has a strong tradition of small local shops . |
5 | The Department of Celtic has a strong tradition of postgraduate research and supervises postgraduate work in all the main branches of Celtic Studies . |
6 | The LGC has a long tradition of providing support services and policy advice to the government . |
7 | It is possibly true of ‘ Bonn ’ : Germany has a long tradition of unease about England which has been kept alive.and well in influential papers such as Die Zeit and elsewhere . |
8 | That area of Aberdeenshire has a long tradition of producing outstanding personalities . |
9 | Established in 1912 , Olympus has a long tradition of good design , using the finest materials and quality craftsmanship . |
10 | It has a long tradition of settlement , the hill having been a fortified place since the mid-tenth century . |
11 | The Social Work Department has a long tradition of working in collaboration with other service providers . |
12 | This country has a long tradition of accepting genuine political refugees , but there is no doubt that the fact that three quarters of all applications are made by people who have been living in this country for weeks , months and , in some cases , years , is tantamount to an abuse of the system . |
13 | Ulster has a long tradition of rural industry and peasant agriculture . |
14 | The convent has a long tradition of illustrating cards and books with delicate hand-crafted watercolours and inscriptions . |
15 | Scotland has a long tradition of exporting its talents . |
16 | All three major rail unions are affiliated to the Trades Union Congress and the Labour party , and the NUR in particular has a long tradition of sponsoring Labour MPs ( Bagwell 1982 : ch. 12 ) , ‘ equalled only by the miners ’ union' ( Eaton and Gill 1981 : 41 ) . |
17 | Research on natural hazards has a long tradition in geography going back more than half a century . |
18 | The concept of an independent development agency has a long tradition in Britain . |
19 | But the notion of an ‘ appeal ’ , of a direct address to the French people — over and above existing intermediaries , authorities , parliaments and parties — has a long tradition in France . |
20 | The approach of classroom testing against the hearing norms has a long tradition among educators and researchers . |
21 | Nor when the Tory press informs us , as it does unceasingly , that ‘ Britain has a profound tradition of unregimented , tolerant order ’ should we rush to indict the historical embroidery of newspaper editors . |
22 | Psychology has a secondary tradition of studying exclusively female samples , particularly in the female-identified areas of heterosexual and parental relationships , and social and emotional attitudes and behaviours . |
23 | Scotland has a wonderful tradition of well-planned and designed urban and rural development , Inverary and Edinburgh 's New Town being but two examples . |
24 | Sussex has a longstanding tradition of interdisciplinary work in this area . |
25 | The main exponents of this approach — writers like Hyman , Beynon and Fox — all take conflict to be a major structural component of employment ; although we should also note that sociology in fact has a longer tradition of exploring the distinctive problems of explanation and understanding associated with industrial conflict ( eg. Eldridge , 1968 ) . |
26 | The University of Edinburgh has a distinguished tradition of research and postgraduate study in many fields . |
27 | Founded in 1583 , the University has a distinguished tradition of learning and of innovation , including examples in the Arts ( Edinburgh established the first Chair of English Literature in Britain ) , in the Sciences ( with the UK 's first Chair of Agriculture and latterly the first Chair and Department of Artificial Intelligence ) and , of course , in Medicine and the other professions . |
28 | This may have been Painswick near Stroud , which has a long-standing tradition of clipping , as he was in Gloucestershire at one time . |
29 | France has had no super-communications ministry ; but it has had a long tradition of state control , planning and Jacobin centralism . |
30 | Visual art education has had a long tradition of emphasizing the practical , so it was not surprising to find similar sentiments being expressed by the visual art teachers interviewed . |