Example sentences of "had been known [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It had been known for some time that relations between Stephenson and Villa were strained because of the player 's insistence on living in his home-town of Newcastle , and several clubs , keen to secure him , were watching the situation closely . |
| 3 | The squinch had been known for some time and was used in Persia , Turkestan , Armenia and Asia Minor . |
| 4 | That was after the war ; during the war itself she had been known as just M , wherever she went . |
| 5 | In that year comparisons of Eliot with Pound were stimulated , and exacerbated , by the publication of what were called the ‘ drafts and transcripts ’ of The Waste Land ; that is to say , the heterogeneous packet of typescripts and manuscripts which Eliot had dumped on Pound in Paris , out of which Pound had helped Eliot to extricate the poem that for forty years had been known under that title . |