Example sentences of "[verb] known [prep] [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus completed theses on Scottish geology are borrowed by BGS through BLDSC as soon as their existence is made known through published sources and informal contacts . |
| 2 | This may well have been produced in Venice , and it demonstrates how the idiom of Leonardo most probably became known to Venetian collectors and artists . |
| 3 | The field-worker became known among some policemen as ‘ Old Nosebag ’ , and there were long-running jokes about spelling people 's names correctly in Sinn Fein 's Republican News . |
| 4 | After a time it became known in other faculties that this was rather a special lecturer and people reading classics or history or the sciences took the trouble to go over to Ramsey 's lectures and swell his class . |
| 5 | But his plans became known in cricketing circles and Gooch told senior England tour party officials about the break-up at a Sussex hotel before his team flew to India on Monday from Gatwick Airport . |
| 6 | We should have known after this start that life with Holmes would never be dull . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , I 've known for some time that if you want a bit of peace you only have to bore people enough and they 'll leave you to it . ’ |
| 9 | He said : ‘ I 'm here to learn about the situation on the ground beyond things that I 've known from previous trips and a long-term study of the issues . |
| 10 | Crosby in 1981 was a classic example : the voters lost a man they had known for thirty years and they did n't know who to vote for instead . |
| 11 | The Special Branch had known for some weeks that he was in Germany . |
| 12 | He had known for some time that it was inevitable . |
| 13 | And it was n't Iris who told us , though she had known for some time that it had come through the Strait shortly after the Belgrano had been sunk . |
| 14 | ‘ She said she had known for some time that she and Fabien could not remain at La Tour Monchauzet after their marriage — that they had been talking together about moving away — of going , perhaps , as far as Australia or California and starting a totally new life . |
| 15 | Of his ex-wife Freddie heard nothing at all , until , in the early summer of 1948 , he encountered a captain , younger than himself , whom he had known at Southern Command and who had relatives living in Scotland . |
| 16 | For she had known in that instant that this dark-haired man before her was destined to leave his mark on her soul . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We in the childrens services have known for two years that something more must be done and we must pay our staff more . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The Major , a close confidant of the Princess , added : ‘ We have known for some time that some very senior members of the IOC have the knives out for our sport . |
| 21 | We have known for some time that this can not have been the case . |
| 22 | ‘ The decision to print elsewhere was a commercial one , for we have known for some time that the quality of our printing of newspapers leaves a lot to be desired , while our commercial printing side is first class . |