Example sentences of "[noun sg] with a long history " in BNC.
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| 1 | The objections to the use of the term case management has resulted in the abandonment of a term with a long history of service use , evaluation and exploration , and the substitution of one with few if any empirical referents at all . |
| 2 | Just when the hero really needs the girl 's help , she stands revealed as a killer with a long history of leading enslaved men to destruction , a siren wrapped in furs and degeneracy , venom in her veins , murder in her mind … |
| 3 | Skelton is a village with a long history and an attractive character in the area of the church . |
| 4 | This letter was only the beginning of a case with a long history , and by piecing together a number of disjointed fragments of information we can obtain an unusually clear picture of the sequence of events and of Anselm 's reactions to them . |
| 5 | Earlier induction of labour would obviously be preferable for a 40 year old primigravid woman with a long history of infertility , even after an uncomplicated pregnancy , whereas it may be inappropriate for a 25 year old multiparous woman . |
| 6 | A 40-year-old man with a long history of schizophrenia was arrested in a public car park while attempting to break into a car to steal a blanket off the back seat . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | THE two foot gauge Vobster Light Railway , ‘ the new railway with a long history ’ , held its first public event on Sunday , July 19th . |
| 9 | The track would be constructed in Zhuhai , a capitalist-style special economic zone bordering Macau , the Portuguese enclave with a long history of grand prix racing . |
| 10 | Martin Smout says : ‘ Wimpey is a company with a long history of fine traditions . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | What is being suggested here is a distinct historical switch in notions of the family , away from traditions which stressed the links with kin and the importance of lineage ( being part of a family with a long history which marriage sought to sustain ) towards a new stress on sexual choice as the basis for alliance . |