Example sentences of "[vb base] know for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They quote an Under Secretary commenting upon informal communications networks : ‘ Some of these people I 've known for twenty-five years and we can of course communicate with each other almost in code . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We 've known for 23 years what the potential problems were but done little to solve them , ’ says Hinners . |
| 3 | I have known for many years , through long observation , that truth IS stranger than fiction . |
| 4 | Further study is necessarily being completed ; but the evidence of linkage between the simultaneous appearance of climatic phenomena in Kansas , Chad , Bihar and in the south — eastern Pacific Ocean suggests what all geographers have known for many years — that the globe works as one complete system , one vast interactive machine , and that the divisions man has forced upon it are no more than crudely artificial devices for our own intellectual convenience . |
| 5 | I am sure that my hon. and gallant Friend , whom I have known for many years and for whom I have a great affection , would agree that about half the best people are women . |
| 6 | He said Alan Winmill is somebody I have known for many years I regard him as a man of intergrity . |
| 7 | We in the childrens services have known for two years that something more must be done and we must pay our staff more . |
| 8 | Well , well the rest of the country are beginning to realise , what Leeds fans have known for three years . |
| 9 | We have known for twenty-five years that Einstein 's general theory of relativity predicts that time must have had a beginning in a singularity fifteen billion years ago . |