Example sentences of "[verb] [been] know for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been known for the hinges on a canopy to fail or for poorly designed and faulty catches to fail in flight , resulting in a lost canopy . |
| 2 | I will ask him some time what prompted his winning play but it has been known for players to forget matters like that after a week 's hard work . |
| 3 | When driving with the rear doors open , as is necessary on warm days to provide ventilation , exhaust fumes escape into the vehicle , making the journey for those in the back even more uncomfortable ; and it has been known for policemen in the back to fall out of the vehicle . |
| 4 | It has been known for some years now that records of the electricity activity of the brain during sleep — by electrodes attached to the scalp , face and neck — confirm that different types of sleep exist . |
| 5 | It has been known for centuries that music affects our state of mind and emotions , and so affects our body . |
| 6 | The latter phenomenon has been known for some time , Zwaardemaker recording several ‘ cancelling pairs ’ as far back as 1875 , which included : |
| 7 | Seeing God in everything has been known for nearly 400 years as pantheism , though the idea is as old as religion itself . |
| 8 | It has been known for a tough roadman-sprinter to control the race in these big hills , not to lose much time on the Ballon , then rejoin the leading group , dominate them on the long downhill run into Mulhouse and win the stage . |
| 9 | The powerful hydrogen bonding capacity of fluoride , discussed by John Emsley , has been known for some time , but its potential for interfering with the vitally important hydrogen bonds between biomolecules has only recently begun to receive attention . |
| 10 | The most common victim of mobbing is the owl , and this phenomenon has been known for centuries . |
| 11 | Garlic has been known for its healing properties for more than 5,000 years . |
| 12 | It has been known for a woman going into labour to suddenly perceive the connection between herself , her mother , mother 's mother , all the mothers of her line stretching back to the beginnings of time , and all the daughters that will follow after . |
| 13 | The existence of the tape has been known for months and a copy of it was made available to a newspaper many weeks ago . |
| 14 | It has been known for staff to accept offers of jobs on the assumption that crêche places and hours will be organised to fit around the duties of employees . |
| 15 | The toxic nature of some animals has been known for a long time and man has utilised their venoms and poisons for various purposes . |
| 16 | This tradition happily has been continued by his successors whose duties have included presiding at the Annual General Meeting , an unpredictable , lively affair where it has been known for election to the Board to be determined by the toss of a coin ! |
| 17 | Where the ranges of the tiger and the Asian lion overlap , it has been known for the two to interbreed . |
| 18 | The effect of early experience on the mating preferences of birds and mammals has been known for a long time . |
| 19 | It has been known for Goblins to get so ambitious that the entire catapult springs from its mounts and hits the Goblin splat in the face , putting paid to the whole device . |
| 20 | It has been known for many years that damage to the left hemisphere is more likely to affect language ability than damage to the right , suggesting that the left hemisphere is very important for language . |
| 21 | It has been known for a long time , and has led to the more modern practice called ‘ foliar feeding ’ , in which the purpose is not so much to correct deficiencies , but to encourage a boost in performance , yield and so on by spraying major element solutions on to the leaves in the same way . |
| 22 | It has been known for some time that eyes give out bioelectric signals — the retina has a positive charge , the cornea is negative . |
| 23 | THE action of alkali metals and their oxides as promoters for many catalytic reactions has been known for nearly a century . |
| 24 | Segmentation is not an innovation in woodturning , and has been known for some time . |
| 25 | For example , it is still commonplace in cartoons to show cavemen and dinosaurs together , despite the fact that it has been known for many years that dinosaurs were extinct long before the evolution of ‘ cavemen ’ . |
| 26 | It has been known for many years that rich clusters contain a lot of gas and dark matter , but Ponman and Bertram 's result shows that these features apply more generally . |
| 27 | It has been known for some time that the majority of fibres from the left and right eyes converge upon single cells in the visual cortex of the cat and monkey ( Hubel and Wiesel , 1967 ) . |
| 28 | It has been known for a long time that , partly due to their immense size , elephants can hear much lower sounds than we can . |
| 29 | It has been known for many years that neurons , like other cells , can be maintained alive and well under such conditions for periods of many days or even weeks , provided they are kept warm , aerated and well fed with glucose and other essential molecules . |
| 30 | Finally , they could sometimes be accused of deception and dishonesty — it has been known for reporters from The Independent to lobby the lobby . |