Example sentences of "be a long history " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of this is in the northwest where there has been a long history of land-use , involving both degradation and successful reclamation . |
| 2 | In Jamaica there is a long history of environmental change due to land-use practices . |
| 3 | Much of Britain is densely populated and intensively farmed , and there is a long history of metal mining and movement of minerals and metals . |
| 4 | Judith Ochshorn , a specialist in Near Eastern culture , points out that there is a long history of women as mourners and attendants on the dead : thus ‘ in its cultural context , the presence of women at the cross or at the tomb of Jesus was not exceptional ’ . |
| 5 | There is a long history of the use of conciliation in employment relations , justified because one objective is to secure the continuance of the relationship between the parties in dispute . |
| 6 | Secondly , there is a long history of reaction against abuses of judicial interrogation . |
| 7 | ‘ Secondly , there is a long history of reaction against abuses of judicial interrogation . |
| 8 | In a study of miraculous images of Mary which weep , the author , Father Hebert SM , after saying there is a long history of these writes , ‘ There has never been such an outpouring of tears as there has been in this century … more explicitly during the ten years , 1971–1981 , particularly so in Italy and in the United States ’ . |
| 9 | there is a long history of decentralised management in the field of housing where local offices on council estates have their own budgets for minor repairs . |
| 10 | There is a long history in the use of case management within rehabilitation services in North America and these have usually been based on psychosocial models in psychiatric rehabilitation . |
| 11 | ‘ There is a long history of MPs , ’ said Evans earnestly , |
| 12 | The notion of a " post-Creole continuum " , first put forward by De Camp ( 1971 ) , is an attempt to explain the complex linguistic situation in those places where there is a long history of native speakers of British English in contact with speakers of an English-based Creole . |
| 13 | There is a long history of members of the aristocracy seeking an alternative Merovingian lord ; effectively it begins with Arcadius calling Childebert into the Auvergne . |
| 14 | There is a long history of concern for the potential significance of childhood parental loss through separation or death , and the development of emotional and behavioural problems in childhood and later life . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | Where there was a long history of nationalist resistance , notably in Poland , Russification provoked bitter resentment . |
| 17 | In addition to the Erzerum and earlier treaties , there was a long history of tension in the region . |