Example sentences of "has a [adj] [adj] history " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their difficulty arises because they are implicitly using a classical concept of reality in which an object has a definite single history . |
| 2 | Mexico has a long culinary history and is therefore a must for any travelling cook . |
| 3 | The construction of the black man as rapist has a long racist history . |
| 4 | ‘ Transport ’ ( line 2 ) means ‘ rapturous emotion ’ ; ‘ vicissitude ’ ( line 4 ) has a long poetic history going back to Milton — it means ‘ alternation ’ , or ‘ change of circumstances ’ . |
| 5 | Mystical experience as a peculiarly human goal has a long cultural history which bears on the way these writers express themselves . |
| 6 | But if a system has a single definite history , the uncertainty principle leads to all sorts of paradoxes , like the particles being in two places at once or astronauts being only half on the moon . |