Example sentences of "has [adv] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | The administration has long known that it faces a bloody fight with conservative insurers and physicians and their hangers-on . |
| 2 | This is the new generation of the wilderness , the generation which has not known slavery , and which will show no servility . |
| 3 | Sally-Ann , unlike Rosemary , finds it a struggle and bitterly hurtful to dredge up her dreadful past — like Rosemary she has believed herself to be a doormat in society ; like Rosemary she has not known a childhood . |
| 4 | Mr. Cleaver also omits to mention any of the many infiltrations , bombardments and acts of terror towards a country which has not known a single day of peace in 44 years . |
| 5 | Since December , the strip has not known a day of quiet : the clashes between the Israeli army and Palestinian demonstrators are fought in towns and villages as well as in the eight refugee camps . |
| 6 | By contrast , the British extreme right wing has not known similar success in recent years . |
| 7 | We assume that this is because it has not known what role to play . |
| 8 | Now , the Northern Empire is lost , and the Black Land is in a chaos it has not known since Nebphetyre Amosis , two hundred years ago ! ’ |
| 9 | I mean Leonardo , without question one of the most outstanding geniuses the world has ever known — but he said that . ’ |
| 10 | As a Celtic expert writes in the show 's catalogue , ‘ Theirs is the first , the oldest , the greatest and the most illuminating ornamental art that Europe has ever known . ’ |
| 11 | That is a harsh judgment to make of the freest-flowing and most sophisticated ( that is , complicated ) financial markets the world has ever known . |
| 12 | The rush of mergers and acquisitions in America in the 1980s was not the largest the country has ever known . |
| 13 | In other words this area is the greatest celebration of nature our planet has ever known . |
| 14 | The poignancy of this catastrophe is the greater when it is realised that Andrew Carnegie , the greatest benefactor the British public library system has ever known , was himself a cotton man who started life as a boy in a cotton mill . |
| 15 | Then I remember that the greatest power of good that this world has ever known began with one man and his twelve followers . |
| 16 | It could even now be starting the greatest revolution our British culture has ever known . |
| 17 | We realise today that this reactionary generation grew up to be the most materialistic the world has ever known . |
| 18 | Quite simply , at his peak , Johnny Byrne was one of the most gifted footballers Crystal Palace FC has ever known . |
| 19 | ‘ Ask yourself , John , a device the size of a nuclear tactical shell used by the artillery , with damage confined only to the research station , or the dissemination of some of the most deadly bacterial and viral agents the world has ever known . ’ |
| 20 | I set out to be the best athlete Britain has ever known and I 've achieved that . |
| 21 | ‘ I set out to be the best athlete Britain has ever known and I 've achieved that . |
| 22 | Just before one o'clock on Monday morning , 5 December 1791 , the greatest composer the world has ever known finally found the ‘ long rest ’ he needed so desperately . |
| 23 | As Bellamy says , ‘ East St. Louis , Belleville , the chip on the shoulder , the bond with mother and grandmother that carried over into his career , the move to the West Coast … what emerged was a great player and one of the toughest , roughest competitors the game has ever known ’ . |
| 24 | It seemed churlish at this point to mention that Eitzel had come all the way from San Francisco and is one of the greatest songwriters humanity has ever known . |
| 25 | Its language , after 1945 , suddenly became the lingua franca of the world — the first mankind has ever known — and more than half of the world 's mail , it is said , is now in English . |
| 26 | What is not disputed , however , is that their current degree of refinement and decorative panache is primarily the result of the skill and artistry of the 16th and 17th-century Persian weavers and designers , who took a number of hitherto rather simple motifs and compositions and turned them into some of the most beautiful , elaborate and awe-inspiring examples of textile art the world has ever known . |
| 27 | " I shall stand first and foremost for the exercise of a complete and thorough boycott of the Germans as the cruellest slaughterers of innocent lives on the high seas that the world has ever known . |
| 28 | Man o'War is probably one of the best race horses the world has ever known . |
| 29 | Woods was recently described by Ian Wooldridge as the ‘ bravest editor South Africa has ever known ’ . |
| 30 | Your great-grandfather was the most remarkable High King Ireland has ever known , Grainne ; he liked to listen to the talk of people from other cultures , and he liked to learn about other lands . |