Example sentences of "be a long tradition [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 In Devon and Cornwall indeed there seems to have been a long tradition of piratical and privateering activity in addition to legitimate trade , which may well have laid the foundation for the activities of seamen from this part of the country in the Elizabethan age ( 63 , pp.159–60 ) .
3 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 .
4 Certainly the word for spirit is female in Hebrew , and there is a long tradition of the divine wisdom being conceived to be feminine .
5 Compared to the USA , where there is a long tradition of debate about general education ( Squires 1976 ; Gaff 1983 ) , the main influence of the concept of a liberal education in British higher education has probably been on the enactment of the curriculum — on the methods and styles of teaching , the role models and relationships involved , and the general learning ethos and environment .
6 Nevertheless , there is a long tradition of general education in higher education there ( which suggests that it is England rather than Scotland which is atypical in this respect ) .
7 It is worth noting that in the USA there is a long tradition of national commissions on the curriculum , as well as a considerable academic literature that has influenced British thinking .
8 Similarly , there is a long tradition of receipt of state benefits .
9 There is a long tradition of attending Ballycastle Fair , and some still go .
10 The nature of language is more complex than amateurs think , and there is a long tradition of scholarship and study to draw upon .
11 You can see those rows of abbots on either side and behind them is a long tradition of succession of abbots including great saints and I suppose a few sinners as well .
12 There is a long tradition in Britain of hostility to ‘ political espionage ’ , some of which surfaces in this book .
13 And there is a long tradition in sociological thinking which makes precisely this distinction .
14 It is a long tradition within the firm to produce handmade farewell cards and there have been some beauties — apt and humorous — which have left the donors proud of their efforts and the recipients amused and flattered .
15 As Miller argues , there is a long tradition among the protestants of Ulster of viewing the British state ambiguously .
16 There is a long tradition among revolutionary thinkers and activists that communist society would be administered without bureaucratic relationships between political leaders and the people — without , that is , an apparatus which represented the particular interests of a dominant class and which was divorced from those engaged in production ( Hegedus 1976 , p. 17 ) .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 In cotton textile workers ' families , where there was a long tradition of married women 's work , one night a week was usually set aside by husbands and wives as ‘ Mary-Ann night ’ .
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