Example sentences of "which have been known " in BNC.
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| 1 | A common problem in geographical information systems ( GIS ) , and one which has been known about for many years in the context of choropleth mapping , is that of producing maps from population data aggregated over selected arbitrary areal units . |
| 2 | As household refuse decomposes , it produces an explosive gas , methane , which has been known to seep up through sewage pipes , telephone cables or the top soil covering a site , constituting a serious hazard to nearby buildings . |
| 3 | This would prevent the police from taking other non-relevant files relating to other clients , which has been known to happen . |
| 4 | It was made explicit by the inclusion in those Conventions of the famous provision in the Preamble which has been known as the Martens clause . |
| 5 | Of course the most famous object in Andromeda is the Great Spiral , M31 , which has been known from very early times . |
| 6 | His eyes made a significant dip and he waited a couple of beats before adding , ‘ And the kind of body which has been known to drive men wild . |
| 7 | He pursued the antimicrobial properties of soil organisms , particularly actinomycetes , which had been known since the 1920s to produce inhibitory substances . |
| 8 | On the same day , the mascaret , a river-bore which had been known to reach as far as Paris , was sweeping up the Seine . |
| 9 | Thus the Hellenistic age saw an intellectual event of the first order : the confrontation of the Greeks with four other civilizations , three of which had been practically unknown to them before , and one of which had been known under very different conditions . |
| 10 | This especially applies to the old bucks , which have been known to kill off the younger bucks , their main rivals , for obvious reasons . |
| 11 | By comparison with other videoconferencing systems ( which have been known to take over whole rooms ) the surprisingly compact desktop VC7000 looks basic , but allows small groups of people to see each other and show documents and objects regardless of their location . |
| 12 | He also does painted constructions , some of which have been known to hang from the ceiling and others to rise up from the floor like tents . |
| 13 | There are certain areas of retailing and certain up-market shops which have been known to multiply their cost by five or six times . |
| 14 | Glasgow University 's recently published study of homelessness among the young in Scotland simply highlights the facts which have been known to anyone who had been working in the social security system in whatever capacity for a number of years . |