Example sentences of "a long tradition of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They all had a long tradition of agrarian troubles , and all suffered from overpopulation and land scarcity . |
| 2 | The Bolsheviks inherited a long tradition of centralist rule from which they had suffered , but whose methods they had imbibed only too deeply . |
| 3 | They have a long tradition of solid trade union organisation . |
| 4 | The LGC has a long tradition of providing support services and policy advice to the government . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There has been a long tradition of professional marketing activities by a wide spectrum of non-profit making organisations including political parties , the Health Education Council with its anti-smoking campaign , the Right to Read programme , Oxfam , Christian Aid and the Salvation Army . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Cancer research had a long tradition of support from private contributions , but new charities devoted to particular diseases , such as arthritis and rheumatism , leukaemia , and muscular dystrophy , were founded and became a great source of strength to workers whose interests had or might have application to the desired objectives . |
| 9 | That area of Aberdeenshire has a long tradition of producing outstanding personalities . |
| 10 | Following a serious collision at the Pleasure Beach in 1980 , 705 was scrapped , but happily 706 has been restored for the 1985 Centenary , reviving a long tradition of open toppers on the Promenade . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There is also a long tradition of migration , mostly to the United States , as people seek a better life and an escape from poverty and land hunger . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There was a long tradition of regarding trusts as protected by actions in personam ; and it is not likely that jurists were early ( or even late ) prepared to abandon this and make available a real protection in all circumstances . |
| 16 | Influenced by a wide range of illustrators and painters , from William Blake to Chagall , his work introduces the young reader to a long tradition of Western art . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Other people , however , have a long tradition of breakfasting wholeheartedly , but perhaps in a way that is not wholesome for the heart . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Established in 1912 , Olympus has a long tradition of good design , using the finest materials and quality craftsmanship . |
| 21 | The concepts of each civilization , like the soil of its homeland , have been cultivated by a long tradition of directed effort , but in the last resort are not invented but given . |
| 22 | George Herbert was a member of a family which had come over with William the Conqueror and had a long tradition of service to the Crown . |
| 23 | A family with a long tradition of service at the head of which is a woman of very strong high moral values . |
| 24 | There is a complex interrelation of both systems and we can again distinguish different countries in which this dual function of law plays a greater or lesser role : the UK for example , without a written constitution , without a constitutional court , without a long tradition of legal science but with a multitude of extra-legal institutions and ideologies does not rely on legal ideology to the same extent as other countries , for example , West Germany and the USA . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 27 | The most significant developments occurred in Scandinavia where there was a long tradition of limited cooperation , or at least of a belief in a common cultural area which made such cooperation valuable , if not almost inevitable . |
| 28 | The Lost Prince in particular belongs to a long tradition of didacticism in stones for the young while in its rapid pace and direct style it looks forward to the growing body of junior adventure stones of the late 1920s and the 1930s when children were to play a leading , active part in important , often great events . |
| 29 | There is a long tradition of by-employment , much of it non-agricultural in nature , in Japanese farming families , and the extension of this practice since 1945 — accentuated by the sharp decline of the previously all-important silkworm cultivation — has made part-time farming a dominant feature of the rural sector . |
| 30 | Factory girls usually married in their early twenties ; it was unlikely to happen over the age of 25 , and only in textile areas , where there was a long tradition of employment , did women generally prolong their independence , though conditions varied in different industries and areas . |