Example sentences of "a long [conj] [adj] history " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was to be a title with a long and cosmopolitan history . |
| 2 | A long and ditinguished history offers little protection from the recession . |
| 3 | Perhaps the latter term suggests too wide a subject-matter ; it would seem , for example , to include extradition ( which has a long and separate history , and is not examined in this book ) as well as the provision of technical assistance in , for example , legislative drafting . |
| 4 | ( iv ) Certain electoral practices , some of them with a long and disreputable history , are forbidden . |
| 5 | The use of the streets and other public places as venues in which to air grievances and complaints ( and to celebrate achievements ) has a long and hallowed history . |
| 6 | The University of Edinburgh is one of the ancient universities of Scotland and as such has a long and fascinating history on which to build towards a dynamic future at the forefront of teaching and research . |
| 7 | This distinction has a long and respectable history . |
| 8 | Vindication of the right to vote has a long and proud history . |
| 9 | The Training scheme has a long and proud history . |
| 10 | It remains the key to our understanding of the natural world and it enables us to recognise that life has a long and continuous history during which organisms , both plant and animal , have changed , generation by generation , as they colonised all parts of the world . |
| 11 | Other listening modes — for instance , those where music is associated with activities of various kinds , the sounds perhaps impinging on muscles , skin , nerves as much as conscious thought processes — have a long and continuous history , however ; and , still , as anthropologists have shown , a living ethnography . |
| 12 | Penal reform groups have a long and honourable history and have played an important part in the development of criminal justice policy over the years . |
| 13 | The fragments have a long and complex history since their discovery , dating back to at least the sixteenth century . |
| 14 | We have been shown meanwhile that there was a great deal more continuity in the northern cities than had been supposed ; and that the contrast in their sites and situations between the cities of the plain in northern Europe and northern Italy , and the cities of the hills in Tuscany and Umbria , was the result in both cases of a long and complex history , of choices deliberately made and often repeated . |
| 15 | These elements were part of a long and complex history of German restlessness and Polish insecurity — ideas that the British , French and Americans , secure in thoroughly different kinds of national , linguistic and cultural identities , could not even begin to chart . |
| 16 | These have a long and complex history of development , but no definitive book has yet been written on them — it is one of the great needs for students of the developing landscape . |
| 17 | After such a long and turbulent history involving Persia and its western neighbours , it is not surprising that the question of Iran 's frontiers with the previous territories of the Ottoman empire has remained a live issue . |
| 18 | Lewis and Harris share with the developing world a long and troubled history of agrarian problems and unrest . |
| 19 | Lucca has a long and brave history and its rigid grid of streets still betray its Roman origins . |
| 20 | The city of Shechem has a long and important history . |
| 21 | Incubation has of course a long and reputable history in antiquity . |
| 22 | There is a long and distinguished history of studying the visual system using ‘ psychophysical ’ procedures in which variations in subjective visual experience with variations in visual input are studied . |
| 23 | Piers Rodgers , the Academy 's Secretary , makes the point that this is a show about art , not politics : ‘ There is a long and distinguished history of art and culture in Tibet and that civilisation is under threat at the moment . |
| 24 | The legal profession in England and Wales has a long and distinguished history . |
| 25 | The legal profession in England and Wales has a long and distinguished history . |
| 26 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 27 | This journal has a long and distinguished history , publishing mainly shorter papers on a wide spread of subjects . |
| 28 | The University of Edinburgh has a long and distinguished history and at a time of difficulty for the institutions of higher education throughout the country , Edinburgh is in a process of constantly reappraising and improving standards to meet the growing demands of a changing world . |
| 29 | The University of Edinburgh , although it has a long and distinguished history , is very much a university of the 1990s . |
| 30 | The plates have a long and illustrious history , being passed from print dealer to dealer and were at various times published by Watelet , Basan and Jean . |