Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] be known [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Collagen has long been known for its hydrating power and as a source of nutrients for the skin , but its penetration into the epidermis has always been limited by its high molecular weight . |
| 2 | It has long been known for its very good annual conferences , and for giving the Eleanor Farjeon Award . |
| 3 | Singapore has long been known for its campaigns against littering , smoking , spitting and jay-walking , but it may be the only place in the world trying to toilet train an entire nation . |
| 4 | So that was what I was doing in Baldersdale — looking for survivors in what has long been known to be a botanically rich area . |
| 5 | Mr Chaskalson has long been known as a human-rights lawyer defending people charged under South Africa 's apartheid and terrorism laws . |
| 6 | Its colour used to range from yellowish or tawny to dark red , but the red was always preferred and the breed is now characteristically ‘ ruby red ’ — a dark but bright blood colour — and it has long been known as the Ruby of the West . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But it has long been known from careful palaeontological studies that even in the thick development in the Cotswolds , there is evidence of two major breaks and a period of folding in what otherwise was a very peaceful period in British geological history . |
| 9 | It has long been known in education circles that a clear correlation exists between social class background and examination success . |
| 10 | On 2 February 1799 Parson Woodforde , by then in Norfolk , wrote in his diary : ‘ Such severe weather has not been known for the last sixty years till the present ’ . |
| 11 | Surprisingly , Jean 's existence has not been known until now : Martin was thought to have been the only son of Jean and Marguerite Delalande to have held a court position . |
| 12 | THE general election in Spain on June 6th will be the first since 1979 in which the winner has not been known in advance . |
| 13 | Parliament has conferred more freedom from restraint on trade unions than has ever been known to the law before . |
| 14 | And if that 's the case , then in the middle of the next century , more will be known about me , than has ever been known about any other human being . |
| 15 | The shop stocked un-Irish books also , and even the smallest volume was treated and presented with greater care than has ever been known in the bookworm paradises of Charing Cross Road or Hay-on-Wye . |
| 16 | This group is remarkable not only for the quality of its work , but also for the fact that no individual has ever been known by name ; only the corporate identity has come down across the years . |
| 17 | Originally bred as a draught animal , its milk has always been known for its quality ( if not quantity ) and it can fairly be called a dual-purpose breed . |
| 18 | The race has always been known as le grand boucle , the great belt , a circuit binding together a large and various country whose distant regions — Provence and Picardy , Brittany and Savoy — knew little of each other . |
| 19 | Of course , the street of which I speak is merely the ten or so blocks that comprise the theatre district , and which , in the public imagination , has always been known as ‘ The Great White Way ’ . |
| 20 | The tradition of St Melangell was never forgotten and the little room at the east end , despite being rebuilt in the 18th century , has always been known as Cell-y-bedd ( the room of the grave ) . |
| 21 | from Birmingham says hanging upside down has always been known as a cure in the Far East and it does work . |
| 22 | Six months later Michele gave Lucia a ring , which has always been known as the doge 's ring … ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | For example , a Series 11 propshaft U/J is now an RTC 3291 , but has also been known as a 43()23 and a GUJ116 . |
| 25 | The last mill in the area is Colebrook Mill , which has also been known as Strattons Mill . |
| 26 | The lane has also been known as Thornton Street , when an inn — Thornton 's inn — was located there . |
| 27 | From the time when the sovereign lived at St James 's Palace , first occupied by Henry VIII and abandoned in favour of Buckingham House ( now Palace ) by George III , the court has traditionally been known as that of St James . |
| 28 | But so far no one has provided a satisfactory answer to why , for generations , the Cumberland has inevitably been known as the Blood Kit . |
| 29 | The two most common rootstocks used nowadays are known as ‘ Quince A ’ and ‘ Quince C ’ , the latter being the more dwarfing stock , but ‘ Quince A ’ bring the most used by fruit growers . |
| 30 | It has even been known for an esteemed binder 's ticket to be transferred from a battered volume to a more handsome specimen with which he had no demonstrable connection . |