Example sentences of "it has a [adj] history " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has a continuous history of woodland cover going back 700 years and provides a habitat for a huge variety of plant , bird and butterfly life . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It has a long history and in 1843 twelve Bronze Age artefacts and two portions of a sword were found whilst digging a drain . |
| 4 | Although it has a long history , the paradox of the Prisoners ' Dilemma has recently been much studied for the light it may shed on the evolution of altruistic or cooperative behaviour . |
| 5 | The blue-flowered garden species of this genus ( N. x faassenii ) , also called catmint , is highly decorative , with its grey leaves and long-lasting flower spikes , but N. cataria is the true herb , of little known but considerable medical use , for which it has a long history , back to Gerard 's day and earlier , though it is not so used nowadays . |
| 6 | It has a long history of urban culture as a market centre for a pastoral and agricultural hinterland , as a garrison town and a centre of services and administration , and it is equally placed as the gateway to the Mittelland . |
| 7 | It has a distinguished history . |