Example sentences of "[verb] a history " in BNC.
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| 1 | The list of people buried here is long and includes Judah Loew ben Bezalel ( Rabbi Loew d.1609 ) , a philosopher who was interested in the supernatural in traditional Jewish teaching , and whose notorious golem or artificially created servant , was said to lie in pieces in the attic of the Old-New Synagogue ; David Gans , the first Jewish historian to write a history of the gentiles which was published in Prague in 1592 ; Josef Salomo ben Elias del Medigo de Candia ( the Wandering Jew ) , who was born in Crete , studied at Palermo , was a pupil of Galileo , and finally practised medicine everywhere from Cairo to Prague ; Mardochee who founded a most important printing press in Prague and who was one of the founders of the Brotherhood of the Dead who until this century kept vigil at the cemetery . |
| 2 | I HAVE been commissioned to write a history of overseas players in English cricket . |
| 3 | But his own political outlook was also vital : ‘ Those influences made me want to write a history of the game 's toilers , the hired labourers . |
| 4 | On successive days , Tom Rosenthal at Deutsch signed up a father son , commissioning farceur Brian Rix ( Lord Rix ) to write a history of his trade , currently entitled Life in the Farce Lane , and buying Jonathan Rix ‘ s first novel Some Hope , to be published in the autumn . |
| 5 | Faced with a few books , a folder of notes and a title , how do you start to write a history essay ? |
| 6 | Behind the sudden success lies a history as long and as colourful as it is unexpected . |
| 7 | This contains a history of the development of the module . |
| 8 | Two patients with impaired peristalsis and oesophagitis reported a history of symptoms but not during the study period . |
| 9 | 88% reported a history of injected-drug use , and the remainder were sexual partners of IDUs. 50% had injected drugs in the six months before interview . |
| 10 | Designed by the eminent architect C. J. Phipps , the Royal has enjoyed a history of live theatre since 1884 . |
| 11 | It is not the purpose of this book to provide a history of coinage , however brief , but rather to focus on the methods by which coins are studied , for only when these methods are properly understood and applied can we realise the full potential of coins as an aid to interpreting the past . |
| 12 | The procedures have return parameters indicating the success/failure of the operation and in addition an incident log file is created to contain a history of critical events that occurred , including any error messages . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In the crowd scenes every character has a history — the chaotic spontaneity is deceptive , and improvisation is out . |
| 15 | As we might speak of the culture of the Hebrides , or as W. H. Rivers wrote of the culture of Melanesia , so we speak of the culture of the European West to describe a set of outlooks , aims and ways of life , which has a history in the past of Europe and has spread to other parts of the world . |
| 16 | It has a history that goes back to Morgan and Drake , a history of piracy and corruption that reaches down to the present day . |
| 17 | Even the pop consumer 's body has a history . |
| 18 | Belgium has a history of unstable governments . |
| 19 | This type of tree has a history extending back to the upper Cretaceous . |
| 20 | Indeed it is unusual to find a fresh case of genital herpes in someone who has a history of cold sores , although it does occur in some cases . |
| 21 | You see this department has a history . |
| 22 | Based in Bristol , Sun Life has a history that stretches back as far as 1810 . |
| 23 | Thus , although capitalism is blamed by many workers for the treatment older people receive today , it is clear that ageism has a history which long predates this form of social organisation . |
| 24 | This could happen in a high-stress job where the executive concerned has a history of heart trouble . |
| 25 | The notion of precatory words ( verba precativa or precaria ) has a history not altogether straightforward . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The harbour town of Watchet has a history going back over a thousand years and is still an active trading port . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ Medicine has a problem — it has a history of sexism and classism . |
| 30 | Sheikh Mohammed 's nine-year-old has a history of leg trouble and has been absent since his Cheltenham triumph in March . |