Example sentences of "[verb] long be known " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Chaskalson has long been known as a human-rights lawyer defending people charged under South Africa 's apartheid and terrorism laws . |
| 2 | It has long been known that skilled smallholders , owning their own plots of land , can produce very much more from an acre than large-scale farmers with labourers who can not possibly have the same dedication . |
| 3 | It has long been known that raw , unrotted FYM does not produce a quick response in crops because the bacteria have to work so hard to break it down , and that fresh pig or poultry dung is too ‘ hot ’ for young plants . |
| 4 | The cave has long been known ; one inscription bears the date 1655 , and in Victorian times it was a showplace , a charge for admission being payable at Braida Garth farm down the valley . |
| 5 | Its colour used to range from yellowish or tawny to dark red , but the red was always preferred and the breed is now characteristically ‘ ruby red ’ — a dark but bright blood colour — and it has long been known as the Ruby of the West . |
| 6 | South of the Brabant Massif the existence of workable Upper Carboniferous coals beneath deformed Devonian rocks has long been known from mines and boreholes through the Faille du Midi or Midi Overthrust , the major thrust-fault complex of the Variscan Front . |
| 7 | Third , it has long been known that sows farrow best in conditions similar to those they are familiar with : if they have been unconfined previously , they should be unconfined at farrowing . |
| 8 | Ramprakash has long been known to have a short fuse but after a year in the England set-up , it was to be hoped he had matured . |
| 9 | It has long been known that people who eat a high-vegetable diet have lower rates of stomach cancer , and this is particularly striking in regions of Italy and China which have a very high garlic intake . |
| 10 | It has long been known that creatures such as molluscs , and indeed the embryos of most living things , come into existence in our physical world in such a fashion that their early development is characterised by either radial or spiral cell cleavage . |
| 11 | It has long been known that the chain molecules of many natural and artificial polymers are arranged in a way which is at least partially crystalline . |
| 12 | It has long been known that amphibian skin contains strong chemicals . |
| 13 | It has long been known that the activity of these geothermal systems is intermittent , and this is generally attributed to the effect of magmatic intrusions or fault motions . |
| 14 | It has long been known that phenylalanine hydroxylase deficiency exhibits a wide and continuous range of clinical and biochemical severity , varying from a symptomless disorder with phenylalanine accumulation only just greater than in obligate heterozygotes to a severely handicapping condition with plasma phenylalanine concentrations over 20 times normal . |
| 15 | Similarly , it has long been known that hens lay more eggs if they are kept under artificial illumination . |
| 16 | Collagen has long been known for its hydrating power and as a source of nutrients for the skin , but its penetration into the epidermis has always been limited by its high molecular weight . |
| 17 | So that was what I was doing in Baldersdale — looking for survivors in what has long been known to be a botanically rich area . |
| 18 | The ability to play chords on the horn , provided the notes derive from the same harmonic series , has long been known . |
| 19 | It has long been known for its very good annual conferences , and for giving the Eleanor Farjeon Award . |
| 20 | But it has long been known from careful palaeontological studies that even in the thick development in the Cotswolds , there is evidence of two major breaks and a period of folding in what otherwise was a very peaceful period in British geological history . |
| 21 | It has long been known in education circles that a clear correlation exists between social class background and examination success . |
| 22 | It has long been known that pernicious anaemia predisposes to development of gastric adenocarcinoma . |
| 23 | Abnormal fibrous tissue overgrowth has long been known to affect a number of widely separate organ systems . |
| 24 | Of non-flowering plants , it has been argued that ferns have a lower associated insect fauna , though it has long been known that bracken has a large number of associated arthropods . |
| 25 | Singapore has long been known for its campaigns against littering , smoking , spitting and jay-walking , but it may be the only place in the world trying to toilet train an entire nation . |
| 26 | The way he wears you down , the way he bleeds you white — if his name were Julian Barnes , he would have long been known as the Glacier . |
| 27 | The effect was explosive , and deeply embarrassing to the government 's position , which for years had been obstructive — to such an extent that Britain had long been known as ‘ The Dirty Man of Europe ’ . |
| 28 | Yet this had long been known : for example , the maxims of La Rochefoucauld , which retain their power to amuse and disturb , established conclusively that many things in human affairs are far from what they seem . |
| 29 | Plate CCXXI of the Figures of Plants shows two roses : the variegated Damask , or York and Lancaster , had long been known and to his descriptive account of this Miller added a note on Mrs Hart 's Rose , probably a sport , with its more distinctly striped petals than the other 's rather blotched red and white ones . |
| 30 | Mrs Popple had long been known to have a short temper . |