Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] tradition of " in BNC.
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| 1 | These contemporary cyclists are part of a grand tradition of bicycling travellers . |
| 2 | The political involvement of a powerful tradition of cooperation contributed to Labour 's success . |
| 3 | However this may be , it is both the climax of a long tradition of minstrelsy and in part , perhaps in large part , the work of a poet of considerable accomplishment . |
| 4 | As such it is part of the legacy of a long tradition of humanist thought which stretches back to fifth-century BC Greece when the first decisive steps towards modern secularism were taken . |
| 5 | A. G. Dickens , in particular , has consistently maintained that the anti-clerical tracts of lawyers such as Simon Fish and Christopher St German were not merely isolated examples of lay hostility to the church , totally unrepresentative of public opinion , but on the contrary part of a long tradition of anti-clericalism among the literate classes , and most especially London merchants , common lawyers , parliamentarians , and royal officials . |
| 6 | Many students of engineering and other professional or semi-professional fields were in the past part-time not full-time , and sandwich courses have grown out of a long tradition of first night-school , then day release and then block release — a pattern associated in the post-war period mainly with the non-university sector . |
| 7 | And even her clothes , once you had got over the original shock , were part of a long tradition of home-made outfits dating back to her days at the Mother Theresa Convent , South Wimbledon . |
| 8 | In this latter respect other authors ( e.g. Bok and Dunlop , 1970 ) have pointed out that labour movements in continental Europe developed against the backdrop and carry-over of a feudalistic tradition of an earlier age that denied workers access to economic opportunity or political power , and which engendered a feeling of isolation and oppression . |
| 9 | It hated pretension , however , because it loved the life of mind ; and what Golding once called a ‘ blow for the ordinary universe , is a denial , often explicit , of a pre-war tradition of fiction composed for an intelligentsia and self-consciously excluding the vulgar appeals of fast-paced narrative and clarity of assertion . |
| 10 | The whole effect is evident proof of a fine tradition of Bohemian craftsmanship . |
| 11 | Today 's Soviet leaders are the products of a long-standing tradition of thinking about war and the use of force . |
| 12 | In spite of a long-standing tradition of appointing former cathedral and university musicians as principals of music colleges , the amount of time given in these institutions to the study of church music is limited . |
| 13 | Despite a long tradition of education , there is still a lack of qualified teachers : in 1986 almost 400 teaching posts were not filled for lack of trained applicants . |
| 14 | In addition , through a well-established tradition of legislative lobbying coupled with the complete juxtaposition of vested interests , the corporate businesses which largely control the extremely lucrative coal mining industry in Appalachia have ensured that while the profits returned from their increasingly automated ‘ long-wall ’ style of mining are being safely accumulated , the mineral taxes which they pay are derisory |
| 15 | With a strong tradition of over 160 years successful investment performance , Clerical Medical has the experience and knowledge to make your savings produce an excellent balance between profits and security . |
| 16 | A school with a long tradition of extra curricular activities is likely to continue with an extensive provision even if the activities alter to reflect the expertise of the adults involved . |
| 17 | A family with a long tradition of service at the head of which is a woman of very strong high moral values . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , as discussed in section 5.2.1 , the eurobond market 's development in London can be attributed to prior development of the eurocurrency market , London 's overall infrastructure as a financial centre , the innovative merchant banks with a long tradition of intermediating financial flows , and the comparatively relaxed regulatory and fiscal regime . |
| 19 | The specific issue which had brought down Syse 's coalition was the insistence by the Centre Party ( SP ) , representing in the main the heavily protected and subsidized agricultural sector and with a long-standing tradition of opposition to the European Communities ( EC ) , that Norway retain its so-called concessionary laws which impeded foreign ownership of property , financial institutions and industrial enterprises . |
| 20 | But it was surely natural for it to feel a flutter of impatience with a fading tradition of Edwardian Modernism that had once invited the educated reader to find metaphysical foundations to his faith before he could believe life meant anything or was worth living . |
| 21 | There are some fundamental general principles to which we are committed , arising from our tradition as an active community college , including a long tradition of involvement in the arts ; we have been involved in TVEI , whose emphasis coincided with our tradition of innovation in design , technology , IT and business studies and in our humanities , health education and fitness for life programmes , particularly our involvement with the local industrial community . |
| 22 | Within a healthy tradition of Goddess-worship , there is assigned to the Goddess an ambivalence , a sense that left to herself she will be destructive rather than nurturing . |
| 23 | Again a scientist stands at the point which has at present been reached within a long tradition of enquiry . |
| 24 | Clearly , it is the concentrated and closed narrative form of the feature film that is out of line , a rupture within a generic tradition of the popular novelistic from which television 's mutations are more continuous . |
| 25 | The anarchist , or more accurately anarcho-syndicalist , CNT ( National Confederation of Labour ) had been founded in 1910–11 ; its main bastions were Catalonia , where socialist strength in the working class was virtually non-existent ; Andalusia , where anarchism drew vigour from a long tradition of rural insurrectionism and millenarianism ; Zaragoza ; and parts of Asturias , Valencia and Galicia . |
| 26 | The organisation of the Latin office of the Church at the Canonical Hours evolved from a complex tradition of teaching which found justification for these hours of prayer in both Old and New Testaments of the Bible ; and a general pattern emerged in which they were connected with the Passion narrative . |
| 27 | He was in a great tradition of Egyptian tomb dwellers . |
| 28 | It would , however , be just as unfortunate for our understanding of Simmel to be confined to this aspect of his work as it was for his philosophy to be reduced to the simple model of freedom enshrined in a earlier tradition of American sociology . |
| 29 | The youth work practice which began to emerge in the 1870s and 1880s built upon a long tradition of mainly religious charitable activity among young people , usually in connection with Sunday schools , temperance societies and the Band of Hope . |
| 30 | Matthew 's theory drew upon a long tradition of applying evolutionism to the problems of biogeography begun by the first Darwinians . |