Example sentences of "have know for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joe Delaney , the FAI 's security officer , said : ‘ FIFA have known for long enough when and where this match would be played and the background to it . |
| 2 | In the village I have known for the last 10 years , they openly regret that things were better under Marcos . |
| 3 | John Rolfe , conference chairman , said : ‘ People within the industry have known for some time there is a need for such a gathering . |
| 4 | You do n't expect that from people you have known for a long time . |
| 5 | But lay people can also make good directors — perhaps someone you have known for years , or , say , your house group leader . |
| 6 | Geologists have known for decades about ‘ natural fission reactors ’ in very ancient rocks at Oklo in Gabon , West Africa . |
| 7 | The scientific world is beginning to discover what metaphysical teachers have known for centuries , that our world is not composed of any matter at all and that its basic component is a kind of energy or force . |
| 8 | It 's only in the last few years that everyone has begun talking seriously about fibre in diet , although those who have always eaten a breakfast that includes all-bran have known for years about the virtues of fibre . |
| 9 | Veterinarians , horticulturists and environmental scientists have known for years that fluoride at very low concentrations can damage vegetation , aquatic life and livestock ; chemists have learnt to expect the unexpected from this unpredictable element ; and biochemists , physiologists and toxicologists all know that fluoride is a potent poison of enzymes . |
| 10 | Scientists have known for some time that fusion reactions between nuclei of deuterium and tritium are more likely if the nuclear spins line up in the same direction . |
| 11 | I am delighted to have heard anything worthwhile by Schillings , whose music I have known for some time in piano-vocal scores but have not encountered in performance . |
| 12 | I have known for many years , through long observation , that truth IS stranger than fiction . |
| 13 | Organisations have known for some considerable time that the acquisition , distribution and effective use of information is a key factor in gaining a competitive advantage . |
| 14 | I really enjoyed experimenting with the Utopia , although I would argue that while one company 's products are undoubtedly the most compatible from the technical standpoint they might not be the best combination for sound — something hi-fi buffs have known for years . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | People have known for some time what has been going on , and I 'm surprised it has taken this long to come out into the open . |
| 17 | Further study is necessarily being completed ; but the evidence of linkage between the simultaneous appearance of climatic phenomena in Kansas , Chad , Bihar and in the south — eastern Pacific Ocean suggests what all geographers have known for many years — that the globe works as one complete system , one vast interactive machine , and that the divisions man has forced upon it are no more than crudely artificial devices for our own intellectual convenience . |
| 18 | The pits where the birds have buried their eggs are quite easy to spot — as human predators have known for centuries — by the slight mounds left by the birds at the surface . |
| 19 | We have known for some time that this can not have been the case . |
| 20 | Future technology is a more real and more easily grasped way to present the past , and as such presentation becomes more widely used , more and more people will come to realize what archaeologists and historians have known for so long — that the past is the key to the future . |
| 21 | We have known for a long time that there is no one right way to analyze a proposed capital investment . |
| 22 | Managers have known for a long time that demographics matter , but they have always believed that population statistics change slowly . |
| 23 | I do n't think that there is any doubt that we have known for more than thirty years that smoking is associated with er ma er , fatal diseases and er not just fatal disease but , diseases but very debilitating diseases . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We have known for years that there are many wrecks which could be of historical value , telling us about the way in which vessels were constructed and , from their contents , about how ordinary people lived in times past . |
| 26 | The said partnership is for economic strategy planning and they have current consultancy projects in what was the USSR , and the one of the three I have known for years , as he shared a Lothian Regional council office with our former upstairs neighbour , lovely now in lake district is off to Moscow next Monday and then to another city ( ? sp ) six thousand miles east of Moscow ! |
| 27 | All I know is what I have known for the past two years : there is no reason at all for the blindness . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Well , well the rest of the country are beginning to realise , what Leeds fans have known for three years . |
| 30 | The move has been criticized by environmental organizations , which argue that the cars could be fitted with a converter because the cost , around £300 per car , is not prohibitive and that in any case manufacturers have known for some time when the law would come into effect . |