Example sentences of "have a history [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheikh Mohammed 's nine-year-old has a history of leg trouble and has been absent since his Cheltenham triumph in March . |
| 2 | Dixton House has a history of leg trouble . |
| 3 | JOHN Bryan 's glamorous personal assistant has a history of mischief herself . |
| 4 | Pavlovo is about 300 miles east of Moscow and has a history of metal craft . |
| 5 | Ask if the patient has a history of lung disease . |
| 6 | This could happen in a high-stress job where the executive concerned has a history of heart trouble . |
| 7 | Apparently he has a history of COADs — chronic obstructive airways disease . |
| 8 | Anyone who has a history of epilepsy ( even if that condition is being fully controlled by medication ) should never on any account be hypnotized , as the process of entering the appropriate altered state of mind can actually trigger off an epileptic fit . |
| 9 | Local residents fear that shock waves from any blasting operation could disturb old mineshaft workings in the area , which has a history of subsidence problems . |
| 10 | Indeed , as chief executive Corrado Passera pointed out , Olivetti has a history of investment in the personal communications sector . |
| 11 | The argument is therefore not about police control or a utopia without controls , but to explore why some cultural behaviour has a history of police action and to discover where that behaviour fits into police ideology . |
| 12 | ‘ Medicine has a problem — it has a history of sexism and classism . |
| 13 | Shortly after , the Sheerwater section , which has a history of troubles , began leaking , and the canal below St. Johns had to be closed for the rest of the summer . |
| 14 | Buttonhook has had a history of epics — possibly 5b ? |
| 15 | ‘ I explained that I was 31 , I 'd had a history of infertility , and that this was my second pregnancy and I really wanted a child . |
| 16 | I admitted he visited me but that I 'd had a history of violence with him , and anyway I 'd got an injunction . |
| 17 | Party Politics , who stands at 18 hands , has had a history of wind problems and before and after last year 's National he had two operations to improve his breathing . |
| 18 | ‘ We do n't have a history of twins in the family — and , in any case , there 's a proverb : lightning never strikes twice in the same place , right ? ’ |
| 19 | Does the person have a history of violence , antagonism to ‘ authority ’ , or of mental disturbance associated with irrational feelings of persecution ? |
| 20 | Each child is to function as an ‘ expert ’ with all that implies of seeing the surgeon 's knife as a specimen , as a tool , as a crafted artefact , as having a history of metal from the earth , of man 's invention , of factory organisation , of training in high-quality skills . |
| 21 | Maternal risk factors known at booking were age under 18 or over 35 ; primiparity or parity of more than three ; being in manual or non-manual work ; being less than 158 cm tall ; attending antenatal care after 18 weeks ' gestation ; having diabetes ; being a smoker ; being of Asian origin ; having a history of infertility ; having a husband in social class III manual , IV , or V ; and having a general practitioner not on the obstetric list . |
| 22 | Conditions vary from organization to organization and across different parts of the public sector , some organizations being noted for having a history of indifference to internal audit . |
| 23 | To be known to the police as having a history of crime is sufficient to be categorized a gouger , and people in Easton who are well known as gougers are always the first suspects . |
| 24 | Middleclass youths are often ‘ mouths ’ but rarely become gougers because the latter require an element of ‘ pure badness ’ , which from the view of the police tends to exclude the middle classes , for ‘ pure badness ’ derives from being ( or appearing to be ) educationally subnormal , coming from ‘ bad homes ’ , or having a history of crime . |
| 25 | This patient had a history of chest pain , although a negative exercise test had been recorded 7.5 months before the episode . |
| 26 | But the inquest was told that lifts at Hamilton Hall had a history of breakdowns and students often attempted ‘ self-rescues ’ . |
| 27 | This means that he asked his questions from an existing problematic ; each question had a history of answers on which he was able to draw and contextualize his own . |
| 28 | Nearly two thirds of the total had a history of smoking . |
| 29 | Among those with carcinoma of the floor of the mouth , which was second only to the tongue as the most common site , 55 ( 76% ) had a history of smoking . |
| 30 | Dead man had a history of anxiety |