Example sentences of "a long history [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | THE various parish schools of St Mary 's Cleator , have a long history of promises , delays , cancellations , fresh starts and demolitions . |
| 32 | There is , after all , a long history of wife-beating and of genocide , but that does not make them excusable . |
| 33 | But 41 year old Gould had a long history of crime . |
| 34 | Fundamentally , many regard the ‘ conflict ’ over housing as an extension of the major divisions in society and argue that the allocation of housing is determined largely by the power that each group has come to possess in a society with a long history of class conflict ( Haddon 1970 ; Duncan 1976 ; Mellor 1977 ) . |
| 35 | ‘ There is a long history of MPs , ’ said Evans earnestly , |
| 36 | It was pointed out that contrary to the rose-tinted spectacles view , Britain has a long history of riot and disorder . |
| 37 | A long history of ulcer disease ( more than 10 years ) ; |
| 38 | This union has got a long history of , this union 's got a long history of amalgamations , some conducted more successfully than others . |
| 39 | Witold Krassowski : Images of Poland , a long history of oppression has made the Polish people tough , with a strong sense of national identity . |
| 40 | Candy , who had a long history of violence , reported that , while he was in Reading on 22 June , an Italian named Mike , whom he knew slightly , approached him and suggested that they rob a shopkeeper in the town . |
| 41 | One belonged to a family with a long history of ill-health ; another was a slattern with a fondness for the bottle ; yet another had a family who had a habit of making other people 's homes their own . |
| 42 | There is , of course , a long history of research into uses of relevance information in In systems , going back to the 1960s , but it only appears to have been used in one online catalogue : CITE , at the National Library of Medicine . |
| 43 | For instance , there is evidence that a long history of failure in an important area of a person 's life makes them particularly vulnerable to depression in the context of a major loss or disappointment which could be interpreted as further evidence of their lack of competence . |
| 44 | The wooded area is nice enough but the schools have a long history of desegregation problems , and are now 88% black and 10% Hispanic . |
| 45 | Secondly , there is a long history of reaction against abuses of judicial interrogation . |
| 46 | ‘ Secondly , there is a long history of reaction against abuses of judicial interrogation . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | The latest in a long history of skirmishes in the palaeontological world has blown up into what one particularly bad press release describes as ‘ one of the nastiest personal and professional feuds in all of science ’ . |
| 49 | Extreme right-wing elements in the government and army were suspected ; the newspaper , with a long history of opposition to authoritarian governments , had been highly critical of the armed forces for their alleged involvement in the massacre on Jan. 28 of 15 peasants in El Zapote , near San Salvador . |
| 50 | The valley has a long history of fact and legend , and age has mellowed its few buildings . |
| 51 | One consequence is that mainstream political science has a long history of insensitivity to issues of gender . |
| 52 | He had a long history of truancy . |
| 53 | But despite the fact that it seems inhospitable , Dartmoor has a long history of use by humans . |
| 54 | It argued that there was a long history of use of such powers ; that , with the widening of the sphere of government , the use of delegated legislative powers was necessary for the efficient conduct of business in the modern state ; that the civil service was best placed to provide the expertise which was necessary to make effective use of these powers ; and that the way in which the powers were actually used in practice was such as to refute any claim of a ‘ new despotism ’ . |
| 55 | The marjorams all have a long history of use since classical times , and were more popular in the Middle Ages in Britain than thyme . |
| 56 | Rue is an example of a common , well-known garden herb , with a long history of use , yet with properties that make it unsuitable for general use by the layman . |
| 57 | They have a long history of use in planning practice , there is a wide measure of consensus about their use in control and , where covered by policy , it tends to be as broad , flexible statements in structure or local plans , amplified in detail in supplementary planning guidance . |
| 58 | The writing was on the wall , however , and the fateful day eventually arrived in 1906 , when the last of the Eastington mills finally closed , putting large numbers out of work and ending a long history of cloth making in the parish . |
| 59 | In addition to the Erzerum and earlier treaties , there was a long history of tension in the region . |
| 60 | Despite a long history of hostility between the two organizations the tone of the seven-hour meeting was described as good-natured , while the joint peace strategy which emerged was seen as a positive development . |