Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] be known for " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE action of alkali metals and their oxides as promoters for many catalytic reactions has been known for nearly a century . |
| 2 | The existence of the tape has been known for months and a copy of it was made available to a newspaper many weeks ago . |
| 3 | The toxic nature of some animals has been known for a long time and man has utilised their venoms and poisons for various purposes . |
| 4 | The squinch had been known for some time and was used in Persia , Turkestan , Armenia and Asia Minor . |
| 5 | As members will be aware , the Local Government Regions and Districts have been known for some time , and the areas of the Sheriffdoms were published at the beginning of the year . |
| 6 | Garlic has been known for its healing properties for more than 5,000 years . |
| 7 | FLARES on the Sun have been known for many years to produce powerful bursts of X-rays , gamma-rays and charged particles . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Other diuretics have been known for a long time , especially arsenical compounds of mercury . |
| 10 | Variants of this reaction have been known for many years . |
| 11 | Variants of this reaction have been known for many years . |
| 12 | The problem of toxics and blue-green algae had been known for a century in countries like Australia and the US where it occurred naturally . |
| 13 | Although the link between social deprivation and road accident casualty rates has been known for some time , the scale of the problem has not been assessed either nationally or locally . |
| 14 | The total supply of money in circulation can not , however , be measured , because although the value of coins struck is known for individual years , there is no satisfactory way of estimating how long they remained in circulation . |
| 15 | The problems of the system under which the starter operates a lever had been known for some years , but the Jockey Club and the course executive failed to replace it , the report added . |
| 16 | The effect of early experience on the mating preferences of birds and mammals has been known for a long time . |
| 17 | Although the general distribution of earthquakes around the world had been known for many years , it was only with the establishment of a comprehensive network of seismographic stations to monitor underground nuclear weapons testing in the early 1960s that a detailed global picture emerged ( Fig. 2.10 ) . |
| 18 | The research has been done for some time and the results have been known for some time , yet still the Government do nothing . |
| 19 | Alcohol , opium , cannabis , and tobacco have been known for centuries and the history of each fills many books . |
| 20 | The latter phenomenon has been known for some time , Zwaardemaker recording several ‘ cancelling pairs ’ as far back as 1875 , which included : |
| 21 | The most common victim of mobbing is the owl , and this phenomenon has been known for centuries . |
| 22 | For quite some time , west Yorkshire Sales Manager Bob Walder has been known for his claim continually to hit targets . |
| 23 | The broken stag had been known for years . |
| 24 | As I 've mentioned already in the context of metaphors of memory , the phenomenon of ‘ animal electricity ’ and its relation to neural activity had been known for a long time — at least since Galvani 's demonstration in Bologna in the 1790s that electrical pulses caused a frog 's legs to twitch . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | These letters have been known for some time , as the aggrieved Leone published them in a pamphlet in 1764 . |
| 27 | But we know very little about the animals which bore these scales and although a few articulated remains have been known for several years , they show very little anatomical detail and it is not easy to identify immediate relatives . |