Example sentences of "have a long [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Objectivity is itself an ideal which has a long history of identification with the masculine . |
| 2 | Egypt is another example of a country which , like Pakistan and China , has a long history of irrigation , in this case in the Nile Valley ( section 3.4.2 ) beginning some 5 kyr BP . |
| 3 | Songqiao ( 1988 ) describes that of the Hexi corridor which is situated between the Mongolian and Tibetan plateaux and which has a long history of cultivation based on irrigation . |
| 4 | ‘ China has a long history of cuisine , a vast territory and abundant natural resources , many nationalities and a large population that has many regions and local diets and customs , ’ he explains , adding that Chinese chefs tended to create new dishes daily , as each cooking method , each style and the range of ingredients could be used to make up different combinations — traditional menus contained a minimum of 100 dishes named after methods . |
| 5 | One consequence is that mainstream political science has a long history of insensitivity to issues of gender . |
| 6 | Social theory of the family has a long history of debate on structural explanations , that is on whether family types adapt as appropriate to the social and economic world . |
| 7 | The valley has a long history of fact and legend , and age has mellowed its few buildings . |
| 8 | It was pointed out that contrary to the rose-tinted spectacles view , Britain has a long history of riot and disorder . |
| 9 | But despite the fact that it seems inhospitable , Dartmoor has a long history of use by humans . |
| 10 | Prague has a long history of defenestrations and in 1948 Jan Masaryk , the foreign minister , the founding president 's son and one of only three non-communist ministers in the government , was found dead , having apparently exited from his office window . |
| 11 | The practice of coppicing has a long history in Britain . |
| 12 | The use of an outsider to observe what happens in a school has a long history in Britain through the process of formal school inspection . |
| 13 | Anti-parliamentarianism has a long history in France . |
| 14 | VOLUNTARY service has a long history in America . |
| 15 | Idealism has a long history in philosophy , going back at least to the Irish philosopher Berkeley , and it is sometimes attributed , as it was by Marx , to Plato . |
| 16 | This kind of research has a long history in psychology and education but is relatively undeveloped in the rest of social science . |
| 17 | The concept of social disorganization , for example , which has a long history in sociology , assumes its contrast to be with a ‘ community ’ , a harmoniously well-organized and integrated society . |
| 18 | It is possibly true of ‘ Bonn ’ : Germany has a long tradition of unease about England which has been kept alive.and well in influential papers such as Die Zeit and elsewhere . |
| 19 | It has a long tradition of settlement , the hill having been a fortified place since the mid-tenth century . |
| 20 | But the notion of an ‘ appeal ’ , of a direct address to the French people — over and above existing intermediaries , authorities , parliaments and parties — has a long tradition in France . |
| 21 | The concept of an independent development agency has a long tradition in Britain . |
| 22 | Research on natural hazards has a long tradition in geography going back more than half a century . |
| 23 | The approach of classroom testing against the hearing norms has a long tradition among educators and researchers . |
| 24 | The housing co-operative movement has a long pedigree in Scotland . |
| 25 | The University of Chicago Press has a long list of titles for the coming spring season , in contrast with last year 's more restricted offering . |
| 26 | Labour has a long list of priorities : a £3 billion pledge on pensions — presumably health comes after that ; health presumably comes after Labour 's £1 billion recovery programme and it presumably comes after Labour 's £8 billion housing pledge . |
| 27 | Even if Hanson holds on to the British end of the ARC operation , it still has a long list of ConsGold assets to offload including : |
| 28 | Peter Settelen has a long list of television credits to his name , appearing in Crown Court and Z-Cars . |
| 29 | The company has a long association with Ford , and recently introduced the 1400 cc Rover powered K-Series of cars . |
| 30 | The human being ( a far more complex creature inhabiting a far more complex world ) needs to be highly adaptive and has a long period of play in which to build up a vast repertoire of behaviours . |