Example sentences of "[been] know [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Pessarane Behesht camp the young man had been known as Matchsticks because he was very tall and thin , with long monkey arms which he moved in an uncoordinated fashion that amused his comrades . |
| 2 | At the end of the fourth century the very aristocratic Fabii , who had so far been known as experts in the Etruscan language and in Etruscan affairs , decided to turn to Greek language and art and to diplomacy in the Hellenic world . |
| 3 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |
| 4 | It has been known for caterers to come in at 8am , turn all the ovens on and not use them for three hours . ’ |
| 5 | He says that it has been known for drugs to be smuggled in large packages . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Although the existence of nitrate pollution and its health implications had been known for decades , in the UK it was not thought to be much of a problem until 1984 . |
| 8 | It has been known for developers to move in virtually overnight to demolish a building once they find out attempts are being made to list it . |
| 9 | The existence of the tape has been known for months and a copy of it was made available to a newspaper many weeks ago . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Around forty of these drawings have been known for years from books and exhibitions , but as things are , I am the only person in the world at the moment to have complete knowledge of what that collection was in its entirety . |
| 12 | The broken stag had been known for years . |
| 13 | Alcohol , opium , cannabis , and tobacco have been known for centuries and the history of each fills many books . |
| 14 | It has been known for centuries that music affects our state of mind and emotions , and so affects our body . |
| 15 | The most common victim of mobbing is the owl , and this phenomenon has been known for centuries . |
| 16 | There was apparently an agreement between Pickard and Wasbrough allowing the latter to use the crank , and the engine-builder who was most incensed at the patenting of a device which he maintained had been known for centuries was James Watt [ q.v . ] . |
| 17 | Finally , they could sometimes be accused of deception and dishonesty — it has been known for reporters from The Independent to lobby the lobby . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | South of the Brabant Massif the existence of workable Upper Carboniferous coals beneath deformed Devonian rocks has long been known from mines and boreholes through the Faille du Midi or Midi Overthrust , the major thrust-fault complex of the Variscan Front . |