Example sentences of "have a long tradition [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The LGC has a long tradition of providing support services and policy advice to the government . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That area of Aberdeenshire has a long tradition of producing outstanding personalities . |
| 4 | Established in 1912 , Olympus has a long tradition of good design , using the finest materials and quality craftsmanship . |
| 5 | It has a long tradition of settlement , the hill having been a fortified place since the mid-tenth century . |
| 6 | The Social Work Department has a long tradition of working in collaboration with other service providers . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Ulster has a long tradition of rural industry and peasant agriculture . |
| 9 | The convent has a long tradition of illustrating cards and books with delicate hand-crafted watercolours and inscriptions . |
| 10 | Scotland has a long tradition of exporting its talents . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Research on natural hazards has a long tradition in geography going back more than half a century . |
| 13 | The concept of an independent development agency has a long tradition in Britain . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The approach of classroom testing against the hearing norms has a long tradition among educators and researchers . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | France has had no super-communications ministry ; but it has had a long tradition of state control , planning and Jacobin centralism . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The department is also strong in the history of philosophy , having a long tradition of scholarship in Ancient Philosophy , the Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment , and in Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy . |
| 20 | They all had a long tradition of agrarian troubles , and all suffered from overpopulation and land scarcity . |
| 21 | Cancer research had a long tradition of support from private contributions , but new charities devoted to particular diseases , such as arthritis and rheumatism , leukaemia , and muscular dystrophy , were founded and became a great source of strength to workers whose interests had or might have application to the desired objectives . |
| 22 | George Herbert was a member of a family which had come over with William the Conqueror and had a long tradition of service to the Crown . |
| 23 | The town and its surrounding rural communities already had a long tradition of Dissent , but just over 20 miles to the east the situation in Doncaster was very different . |
| 24 | Weak though its labour organisation may have been in the 1880s , it had a longer tradition of trade unionism among seamen than any other part of the country . |
| 25 | They have a long tradition of solid trade union organisation . |
| 26 | Other people , however , have a long tradition of breakfasting wholeheartedly , but perhaps in a way that is not wholesome for the heart . |
| 27 | Swindon Town and Oxford United fans have a long tradition of rivalry . |
| 28 | But kids have a long tradition of getting the better of adults , going back to the Famous Five and beyond . |