Example sentences of "a [adj] history [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Charged with evaluating the remaining exploration potential in the country 's oldest basin , the task has exposed the project team to a rich history of geology , politics and social issues . |
| 2 | This is the point where a number of difficult areas converge : society 's ambivalence about sexuality and people with learning difficulties ; a tradition of segregation ; a lingering concern about eugenics ; a shameful history of ( enforced ) sterilisation ; a proper concern about vulnerable children ; and their right to due protection from neglect and abuse — set against an increasing recognition that people with learning difficulties should enjoy the same rights to an ordinary life in our society as anyone else , including the rights to be parents . |
| 3 | The oldest patient in the study was a 92-year-old retired college professor who was admitted from the emergency department with a 3-day history of productive cough , dyspnoea , and fever . |
| 4 | Theodora , freshly returned from the cathedral 's matins and a tramp round Norwich , ate her Sunday luncheon about half-past two , on the terrace , with Charles 's Medoc and Blomfield 's Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk from Charles 's library to hand . |
| 5 | There might be a possible history in which the Labour party won the last election in Britain , though maybe the probability is low . |
| 6 | He 's since written a 4-volume history of wartime intelligence and has little doubt about Bletchley 's significance . |
| 7 | Instead of upholding one at the expense of the other , Bachelard offers the possibility of a deconstructive history which would reinscribe that which had been excluded ; this could also enable a differential history of science and ideology , accounting for the perpetuation of ideology after the production of science . |
| 8 | After a continuous existence of 182 years , and a total history of 387 years , the Ancient Society of Kilwinning Archers and their papingo shoot was again in abeyance . |
| 9 | There was a definite history of grief preceding the onset of the chief complaint . |
| 10 | Patients were classified into three groups : ( a ) ‘ probable ’ Alzheimer 's disease if they met the clinical criteria and had a Hachinski score less than 5 ; ( b ) ‘ broad ’ Alzheimer 's disease defined after reclassification of all presenile patients by discriminant analysis ( this group included all probable Alzheimer 's disease ) ; and ( c ) multi-infarct dementia — a definite history of at least one cerebrovascular accident and a Hachinski score greater than 6 . |
| 11 | He offers a concise history of recent work , indicates clearly what issues remain unresolved and suggests the directions of future research . |
| 12 | Your employer will have a personnel file containing a potted history of your career with the company . |
| 13 | The book covers much : a potted history of psychology , the development of the fetus , learning , psychotherapy and IQ . |
| 14 | He or she will also apply to the Land Registry for copy title deeds of the property and a potted history of the various ownerships . |
| 15 | He never seems to have made up his mind what kind of book he 's trying to write : a slice of autobiography , a potted history of government-TUC relations , a polemic about union decline , or an extended advertisement for the EETPU 's version of ‘ business unionism ’ . |
| 16 | The show purports to be a potted history of the average actor 's life not one of the starspangled knights who represent the tip of the thespian iceberg , but the common-or-garden variety likely to be found filling out the bill in a panto or carrying a spear in the background of a TV costume drama . |
| 17 | As far back as 1925 , he had dreamed of a complete history of the love allegory from Ovid to Spenser , and by 1928 two chapters of a more modest scheme , starting with the Provençal troubadours , were finished . |
| 18 | John Paris , in his biography of Davy published in 1825 , wrote : ‘ I have been able to present to the world a complete history of those proceedings which have so happily led to discovery of which it is not too much to say that it is at once the pride of science , the triumph of humanity and the glory of the age in which we live . ’ |
| 19 | This book is a complete history of platinum , with much also about the other metals of the platinum group , and an account of the technical achievements of the firm of Johnson Matthey . |
| 20 | In the 80s an American writer published a complete history of the mountain , entitled Eiger , Wall of Death , which was heavily slated by mountaineers for its sensationalist writing ( the author had never climbed the route ) — but it still sells well in the Grindelwald . |
| 21 | track down the histories and fate of the 903 Norseman aircraft built , in order to compile a complete history of the type and its service . |
| 22 | It was to be a complete history of the London Underground . |
| 23 | We do not have a complete history of such changes in media and social practice . |
| 24 | A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain Vol. 11 [ David & Charles ] |
| 25 | A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE PRESS : A BRIEF REVIEW |
| 26 | So declare Janice Delaney , Mary Jane Lupton and Emily Toth , in the preface to their book , The Curse : A Cultural History of Menstruation . |
| 27 | A Social History of Engineering . |
| 28 | The other big piece in the book by one of the area 's longtime residents , Raphael Samuel , is both a social history of one of the most fascinatingly mixed areas of London and a passionate polemic against the fruit-market being forced to leave . |
| 29 | A good general introduction to the subject is A Social History of England by Asa Briggs ( Pelican Books 1987 ) , which also contains an excellent forty-page bibliography . |
| 30 | The following are merely typical examples of books worthy of collection : English Field Systems by H.L. Gray ( republished London 1969 ) , History of the Farmstead by J. Weller ( London 1982 , with over 200 illustrations , a glossary and a bibliography ) , Old Farm Implements by Philip Wright ( Gloucester 1983 ) , The Agricultural Revolution in South Lincolnshire by David Grigg ( Cambridge 1966 ) , and Bound to the Soil. : A Social History of Dorset 1750–1918 by B. Kerr ( London 1968 ) . |