Example sentences of "[been] know [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The area has not been know for fashion stores for a long time , but the new Criterion building is the location of Sogo , the new drive-in fashion store . |
| 2 | The lane has also been known as Thornton Street , when an inn — Thornton 's inn — was located there . |
| 3 | A sandstone bridge at the meeting of Newham and Marton West becks in Acklam has been known as Devil 's Bridge for 200 years but no one knows why . |
| 4 | From then on the lake has been known as DRD Lake ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The last mill in the area is Colebrook Mill , which has also been known as Strattons Mill . |
| 8 | It has always been known as Kuwait , and erm the settlers of Kuwait are Arabs that came from Saudi Arabia and the southern part of Iraq and the southern parts of Iran , and they are settlers there . |
| 9 | THE BOUNDARY changes of 1974 gave the name of Tayside to what had been the counties of Perthshire , Kinross-shire and Angus ( which itself had once been known as Forfarshire ) , while Clackmannanshire and Stirlingshire became rather drably Central . |
| 10 | This mill has been known as Mill Dene and before that Wagstaffs . |
| 11 | Other families like my own ( Cowers ) have always been known as Cribby . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He said ‘ Yes , Ernest , but he 'd always been known as Johnny Walker ’ . |
| 14 | It has been known for caterers to come in at 8am , turn all the ovens on and not use them for three hours . ’ |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | He says that it has been known for drugs to be smuggled in large packages . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | That was an intervention from her conscience but she had never been known for obstinacy in the past , and it was puzzling to account , really , for her awkward persistence about Grace . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The existence of the tape has been known for months and a copy of it was made available to a newspaper many weeks ago . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The broken stag had been known for years . |
| 26 | Alcohol , opium , cannabis , and tobacco have been known for centuries and the history of each fills many books . |
| 27 | It has been known for centuries that music affects our state of mind and emotions , and so affects our body . |
| 28 | The most common victim of mobbing is the owl , and this phenomenon has been known for centuries . |
| 29 | 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 . ] . |
| 30 | Finally , they could sometimes be accused of deception and dishonesty — it has been known for reporters from The Independent to lobby the lobby . |