Example sentences of "[been] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Had n't it always been known as the centre of the Western World ? |
| 32 | The tradition of St Melangell was never forgotten and the little room at the east end , despite being rebuilt in the 18th century , has always been known as Cell-y-bedd ( the room of the grave ) . |
| 33 | It is most probably that the inhabitants had heard of this religion which had spread over Europe and had been known as early as the late Roman period in Britain . |
| 34 | Other families like my own ( Cowers ) have always been known as Cribby . |
| 35 | At the end of the fourth century the very aristocratic Fabii , who had so far been known as experts in the Etruscan language and in Etruscan affairs , decided to turn to Greek language and art and to diplomacy in the Hellenic world . |
| 36 | In nearly 3,000 years with this company , I have never been known as a quitter . |
| 37 | Kampuchea had been known as the Kingdom of Cambodia prior to 1970 , as the Khmer Republic between 1970-75 and as Democratic Kampuchea from 1976-79 . |
| 38 | It had previously been known as the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea ( CGDK ) . |
| 39 | At Eton he had been known as ‘ Hitler Hurd ’ , but events had mellowed him . |
| 40 | from Birmingham says hanging upside down has always been known as a cure in the Far East and it does work . |
| 41 | I I think that er what has been known as an inner northern bypass , that is a road which passes between Harrogate and Knaresborough , could act as a very effective relief road for the A fifty nine . |
| 42 | Six months later Michele gave Lucia a ring , which has always been known as the doge 's ring … ’ |
| 43 | Walsh has been known as the demon bowler , but to the Gloucestershire team , who kknow hin as Shortie , he 's more often been their saviour . |
| 44 | ‘ For the size of the school , we have done some remarkable things , ’ added the 47-year-old , who has something musical in the pipeline every term at the school which , over the years , has variously been known as the North of England Agricultural School , Ayton School , The Friends School , Great Ayton , and recently reverted to Ayton School . |
| 45 | A sandstone bridge at the meeting of Newham and Marton West becks in Acklam has been known as Devil 's Bridge for 200 years but no one knows why . |
| 46 | But so far no one has provided a satisfactory answer to why , for generations , the Cumberland has inevitably been known as the Blood Kit . |
| 47 | It has always been known as Kuwait , and erm the settlers of Kuwait are Arabs that came from Saudi Arabia and the southern part of Iraq and the southern parts of Iran , and they are settlers there . |
| 48 | Not so much has been known about them , which alone justifies the book . |
| 49 | And if that 's the case , then in the middle of the next century , more will be known about me , than has ever been known about any other human being . |
| 50 | If he has been known at all to movie-goers thus far , it 's been as Spike Lee 's cinematographer : even when Lee 's brashness caused you to squirm in your seat , you still have something pretty marvellous to look at , and that 's Ernest Dickerson 's work . |
| 51 | It had been known at the time of his appointment that Miyazawa and members of his Cabinet had been implicated , in varying degrees , in the Recruit-Cosmos share scandal which brought down the Takeshita administration in 1989 [ see pp. 36463-64 ; 36589 ] . |
| 52 | The defect in any case may not have been known at the time of the sale . |
| 53 | It has been known for the hinges on a canopy to fail or for poorly designed and faulty catches to fail in flight , resulting in a lost canopy . |
| 54 | I will ask him some time what prompted his winning play but it has been known for players to forget matters like that after a week 's hard work . |
| 55 | When driving with the rear doors open , as is necessary on warm days to provide ventilation , exhaust fumes escape into the vehicle , making the journey for those in the back even more uncomfortable ; and it has been known for policemen in the back to fall out of the vehicle . |
| 56 | It has been known for some years now that records of the electricity activity of the brain during sleep — by electrodes attached to the scalp , face and neck — confirm that different types of sleep exist . |
| 57 | The problem of toxics and blue-green algae had been known for a century in countries like Australia and the US where it occurred naturally . |
| 58 | It had been known for a long time that histamine was responsible for producing many allergies and the first antihistamine drug was produced in France in 1937 . |
| 59 | Although the existence of nitrate pollution and its health implications had been known for decades , in the UK it was not thought to be much of a problem until 1984 . |
| 60 | Although they have been known for many years their evolutionary position is still hotly debated . |