Example sentences of "have [been] known [prep] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The existence of the tape has been known for months and a copy of it was made available to a newspaper many weeks ago . |
| 2 | That matter is not really as we perceive it has been known to chemists and physicists for over 150 years , but despite Einstein 's demonstration , and that of other atomic scientists since , that matter and energy are interchangeable , we persist in our view that physical matter is solid and stable . |
| 3 | Many of these facts would have been known to Eva as she took the four day journey by train from Cape Town to land-locked Rhodesia . |
| 4 | At the Pessarane Behesht camp the young man had been known as Matchsticks because he was very tall and thin , with long monkey arms which he moved in an uncoordinated fashion that amused his comrades . |
| 5 | In fact , mahogany had been known in England since Sir Walter Raleigh 's day but it took the French ban for it to become popular . |
| 6 | Alcohol , opium , cannabis , and tobacco have been known for centuries and the history of each fills many books . |