Example sentences of "been known to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But religious education has been known to be fundamentalist and in some cases anti-catholic , depending on the teacher . |
| 2 | Gryschenko had been known to be unhappy about embarking on the first leg of the race . |
| 3 | It can be speculated that the informants recruited in Operation Ward may have been known to the IRA for months or even years . |
| 4 | This was obviously untrue since Blake's-arrest had been known to the Russians for several weeks . |
| 5 | The Pier Head is , in fact , a substantial stretch of landfill between the waterfront and three majestic Edwardian buildings — the Royal Liver Building , the Cunard building and the Dock Board offices — that have been known to generations of seafarers . |
| 6 | None of these facts , Simone pointed out , could have been known to the healer she consulted in Canterbury . |
| 7 | In any case , it seems inevitable that the development of the mechanical clock should have been primarily due to the Church for , although the transmission of power by rope and pulley had long been known to craftsmen , the mathematics of gear-trains ( particularly astronomical trains ) was known only to the highly educated , and their education was provided only by the Church . |
| 8 | Very rare species have been known to be eliminated precisely because they are rare and would , in the collector 's opinion , be better off in a bottle in a museum for posterity . |
| 9 | The third case was impossible to assess , for Mrs Kitchener 's daughter did not want to be interviewed again , but the development officer 's account at a time when Mrs Kitchener had been known to the project for about a year gives some indication of the situation : |
| 10 | They 'd been known to us for years as a couple of minor police informers , dabblers in espionage who never come up with anything much . ’ |
| 11 | It has been known to the West since the 17th century . |
| 12 | When a telephone is installed , it is possible to have a very long flex put on for very little extra cost , and it can then be carried to any room , but you should consider the advantages and disadvantages of this carefully before coming to a decision to have it done , as it has been known to be the cause of accidents to some old people . |
| 13 | A.agassizii has been known to science for over 100 years , having been described by Steindachner in 1875 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Express dubs the Grant-Livingstone team the ‘ nightmare ticket ’ , and reminds us that Grant has sometimes been known to the tabloids as ‘ Barmy Bernie ’ . |
| 16 | Jersey cheques have been known to be sent to New Jersey for clearance ! ’ |
| 17 | Parliament has conferred more freedom from restraint on trade unions than has ever been known to the law before . |
| 18 | Atomic fission had been known to the general public for a decade ; the awareness of fusion bombs was only four years old , so the possibility of a ‘ third and revolutionary way to produce a nuclear reaction without uranium , as in the fission reaction , or million degree heat as in the fusion reaction ’ generated a lot of excitement . |
| 19 | Not the least fascinating aspect of the story , which broke the day after France 's quarter final defeat by Switzerland — and barely three months after the memorable celebrations which had accompanied their winning of the trophy for the first time in 59 years — was that although Noah 's decision was said to have been known to his players and coaches several weeks earlier , no-one apparently bothered to tell French Tennis president , Philippe Chatrier . |
| 20 | His activities had been known to some antislavery figures long before , but in 1814 his Mitigation of Slavery was published along with an extensive and favourable account by the Scots abolitionist William Dickson in the form of Letters to Thomas Clarkson . |
| 21 | In New Zealand mortality from sudden infant death syndrome has been known to be higher in Maori children for some time , but the reason has been unclear . |
| 22 | The series ' existence has hitherto only been known to people who visited the late Dollie de Rothschild 's ( died 1988 ) private house in London , but her heir Lord Rothschild has decided that they should go on display next year in Waddesdon Manor , the house she gave to the National Trust during her lifetime . |
| 23 | The fact that the US was canvassing support from other Asian states would very likely have been known to the Russians and Chinese ; and it is at least conceivable that this fact influenced their own decision . |
| 24 | CHARLES CLIFFE needs little introduction having been known to you for his splendid writing and demonstrations . |
| 25 | The result of the application to the Court of Appeal on 4 November 1991 might have been different if the true position had been known to that court . |
| 26 | The greatest cause of redundant data however is the inclusion of the company logo ; this has been known to be as much as an order of magnitude greater than the average model . |
| 27 | Many of the children will have experienced poverty and insecurity , if not actual neglect , and may well have been known to the health or education authorities as children at special risk before they come into the care of the social services department . |
| 28 | So that was what I was doing in Baldersdale — looking for survivors in what has long been known to be a botanically rich area . |
| 29 | And no doubt other dangerous folk who might have been known to me . |
| 30 | ‘ It has been known to our people for centuries . |