Example sentences of "has a long [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ China has a long history of cuisine , a vast territory and abundant natural resources , many nationalities and a large population that has many regions and local diets and customs , ’ he explains , adding that Chinese chefs tended to create new dishes daily , as each cooking method , each style and the range of ingredients could be used to make up different combinations — traditional menus contained a minimum of 100 dishes named after methods . |
| 2 | During a lawsuit brought by environmental groups against NMFS to compel observer coverage of the total US tuna fleet , the legal counsel for Earth Island Institute and the Marine Mammal Fund stated : ‘ The National Marine Fisheries Service has a long history of ignoring the will of Congress and working closely with the fishing industry . |
| 3 | Prague has a long history of defenestrations and in 1948 Jan Masaryk , the foreign minister , the founding president 's son and one of only three non-communist ministers in the government , was found dead , having apparently exited from his office window . |
| 4 | In fact , this is probably , the most completely original church from the sixteenth-century in Milan and has a long history of being attended by the rich and powerful . |
| 5 | It was pointed out that contrary to the rose-tinted spectacles view , Britain has a long history of riot and disorder . |
| 6 | The valley has a long history of fact and legend , and age has mellowed its few buildings . |
| 7 | Literature has a long history of feminist interest , but film and media studies are certainly as central to feminist cultural debates . |
| 8 | The CAB has a long history of mobilising professionals such as lawyers , accountants and surveyors , to advise clients on a voluntary basis but there are very few lawyers who specialise in welfare benefits or money advice . |
| 9 | Songqiao ( 1988 ) describes that of the Hexi corridor which is situated between the Mongolian and Tibetan plateaux and which has a long history of cultivation based on irrigation . |
| 10 | Egypt is another example of a country which , like Pakistan and China , has a long history of irrigation , in this case in the Nile Valley ( section 3.4.2 ) beginning some 5 kyr BP . |
| 11 | In Tanzania , for example , the Dodoma section of the semi-arid central region has a long history of both accelerated soil erosion and attempts at conservation . |
| 12 | The region has a long history of human activity ( section 3.2.1 ) , and although erosion has always been a problem it has intensified considerably in the last 100 years as deforestation has accelerated and grasslands have been degraded . |
| 13 | One consequence is that mainstream political science has a long history of insensitivity to issues of gender . |
| 14 | But despite the fact that it seems inhospitable , Dartmoor has a long history of use by humans . |
| 15 | It may seem obvious to suggest that the level of understanding about purchasing among general practitioners and primary health care teams is extremely varied , but primary care has a long history of suffering from being physically distanced from other parts of the service and the discussions taking place there . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | North Shields has a long history of democratic local government and is currently under the political control of the most left-wing Labour authority in the North East . |
| 18 | Objectivity is itself an ideal which has a long history of identification with the masculine . |
| 19 | Bourgeois individualism has a long history of subversive bohemian variants ; and the struggle for control of the elements of counter cultural musical style was a struggle between different aspects of the same principle . |
| 20 | It has a long history of urban culture as a market centre for a pastoral and agricultural hinterland , as a garrison town and a centre of services and administration , and it is equally placed as the gateway to the Mittelland . |
| 21 | That city , which has a long history of communal grief in the memories of Irish immigrants and desperate experiences of unemployment , knew , intuitively , how to behave . |
| 22 | As outlined earlier , low temperatures past and present are also indicated by the evidence that the Moon has a long history of outer rigidity . |
| 23 | She has a long coachroof of medium height and a short-ended hull on which no attempt has been made to distort the lines . |
| 24 | Alba Adriatica has a long beach of fine , golden sand where holiday life is taken at a relaxed unhurried pace . |
| 25 | The LGC has a long tradition of providing support services and policy advice to the government . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | That area of Aberdeenshire has a long tradition of producing outstanding personalities . |
| 28 | Established in 1912 , Olympus has a long tradition of good design , using the finest materials and quality craftsmanship . |
| 29 | It has a long tradition of settlement , the hill having been a fortified place since the mid-tenth century . |
| 30 | The Social Work Department has a long tradition of working in collaboration with other service providers . |