Example sentences of "have be known [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the mighty ostrich has been known to resort to this form of deception . |
| 2 | Even Desmond Haynes has been known to succumb to ragging of that ilk , but he surely will have advised his county colleague that there is only one foolproof means of revenge . |
| 3 | A great formula has been known to appear to a scientist ready-made in a dream as though he were a Siberian shaman , but unlike the shaman he accepts it not on the authority of the dream but because afterwards it satisfies his most stringent tests . |
| 4 | It has a period of 357 days , and at minimum is so faint that large telescopes are needed to show it , but at maximum it has been known to rise to 5.7 , and is then just visible with the naked eye and very easy in binoculars . |
| 5 | His father had been killed two years before , and Mallachy had been known to refer to him , with his grim-eyed smile , as some sort of hero , a victim of the UFF or someone like them . |
| 6 | More adventurous dealers have been known to go to New York . |
| 7 | Many new members of an audience have been known to object to the applause greeting the last bow . |
| 8 | They have been known to swim to an offshore tern colony and kill dozens of chicks and adults in a single night . |
| 9 | People mainly fish for trout and salmon but other fish have been known to attract to the artificial flies . |