Example sentences of "[been] know to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though popular with patients , such a departure from traditional practice has been known to outrage consultants , demanding to know what the researcher is doing with their patients ! |
| 2 | The Pier Head is , in fact , a substantial stretch of landfill between the waterfront and three majestic Edwardian buildings — the Royal Liver Building , the Cunard building and the Dock Board offices — that have been known to generations of seafarers . |
| 3 | ‘ Would the fact that he was put in as priest at Oldfield mean that Marr would have to have been known to Lord Dersingham ? ’ |
| 4 | Many of these facts would have been known to Eva as she took the four day journey by train from Cape Town to land-locked Rhodesia . |
| 5 | The series ' existence has hitherto only been known to people who visited the late Dollie de Rothschild 's ( died 1988 ) private house in London , but her heir Lord Rothschild has decided that they should go on display next year in Waddesdon Manor , the house she gave to the National Trust during her lifetime . |
| 6 | The Padovani family had long been known to John Coffin since they had once run a restaurant near where he had lodged as a young detective . |
| 7 | In any case , it seems inevitable that the development of the mechanical clock should have been primarily due to the Church for , although the transmission of power by rope and pulley had long been known to craftsmen , the mathematics of gear-trains ( particularly astronomical trains ) was known only to the highly educated , and their education was provided only by the Church . |
| 8 | That matter is not really as we perceive it has been known to chemists and physicists for over 150 years , but despite Einstein 's demonstration , and that of other atomic scientists since , that matter and energy are interchangeable , we persist in our view that physical matter is solid and stable . |
| 9 | A.agassizii has been known to science for over 100 years , having been described by Steindachner in 1875 . |