Example sentences of "have heard of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone has heard of stressed executives who suffer peptic ulcers and ulcerative colitis . |
| 2 | EVERYONE who grew up in the Sixties has heard of Transcendental Meditation and its founder the Maharishi , the giggling Indian guru who guided the Beatles through their flower power phase . |
| 3 | Here , he would have heard of poor Mansfield 's terrible death following a naphtha fire in a derelict building in St Pancras , as well as of G. F. Wilson 's new processes for producing cheap glycerin soaps and ( Price 's patents ) candles from low-grade fats , and of Abel and Spiller 's progress at Woolwich Arsenal on organo-nitrate explosives . |
| 4 | YOU MAY not have heard of serial killer and cannibal Ed Gein , but you 've probably seen his movies . |
| 5 | He interrogates everyone : a Rouen merchant who amazes him by not having heard of mint sauce , and a canon of Evreux who informs him that in France the men read too much , while the women read next to nothing ( o rarer still Emma Bovary ! ) . |
| 6 | But I had heard of similar excuses . |
| 7 | Long before anyone had heard of Bulgarian Cabernet Sauvignon or Australian Chardonnay , Alsace was producing well priced , clean , pure wines made from , and labelled by , single grape varieties . |
| 8 | He had heard of Chinese rooms , heard of Chinese Chippendale , but he had never seen a room furnished in the style . |
| 9 | Equally , names that no one had heard of emerged as important groupings . |
| 10 | He had heard of funny guys . |
| 11 | Most respondents had heard of local authority homes ( 85 per cent ) or geriatric hospitals ( 68 per cent ) . |
| 12 | He had never thought to find himself discussing such a thing with a single young woman , but he had heard of American girls ' frankness , and he supposed that this was a sample of it . |
| 13 | For instance , I 've heard of representative assemblies of large co-operatives choosing their own director . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , I 've heard of NP-complete problems . |
| 15 | There are all sorts of situations that can occur , I 've heard of electrical er and soil impulses that er cause shock and well might put it out to flower . |
| 16 | I think there 's I think there 's quite a few and I think this is what swayed it , the fact that they have had erm , I know of at least ten say ten , there 's one , two , three on the other side of the road which is good because Bob which is another one , so that 's four , there 's which is the other side of the shop , is five , there 's us , six , Jean seven , the eight , erm the guy the other side of the which is nine , there is Ginny over the and the erm old persons ' home , that 's ten that I know of for certain about , er and then I 've heard of other people were gon na be writing in , now whether they actually did or not I do n't know |
| 17 | ‘ Well , let's say that I 've heard of married blokes who always had to go to the office on Saturdays , and it usually was n't office work they were doing . |
| 18 | I 've heard of red shifts . |
| 19 | I 've heard of crusty but not |
| 20 | Well , I 've heard of old lags wanting to die in jail , so I suppose it figures . |
| 21 | ‘ Surely you 've heard of sick building syndrome ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I have heard of similar cases . |
| 23 | I have heard of other appointments which she has blocked for similar reasons , and in my lifetime can recall no other Prime Minister , Labour or Conservative , who felt the need to exercise such petty partisanship . |
| 24 | I have heard of various instances of a butler being displayed as a kind of performing monkey at a house party . |
| 25 | He said , ‘ I have never heard of Auric Industries before , although I have heard of Auric Enterprises . |
| 26 | We have heard of waterless embalming , well , who in the name of goodness has ever done it ? — or is that a ploy for producers to sell more fluid or that in , for example , 16 oz they will use 3 or 4 types of fluid which interact and work as one . |
| 27 | I have heard of old women who forbid others in their lounge to go to the toilet when they appear to do so too frequently . |