Example sentences of "[verb] known [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although retired , Trevor continues to take an interest in the Stoddard Group as an agent for Lyles , keeping in touch with those he has known for many years . |
| 2 | Joan is Secretary to the Managing Director and Commercial Director and David , whom she has known for seven years , works with British Steel . |
| 3 | In one fell swoop , Virgin had acquired that most elusive of qualities , ‘ street credibility ’ ; the company roster now boasted groups like Magazine , Penetration , the Members , the Skids — what was becoming known as New Wave , a marketing term used to denote almost any performer that had emerged in the aftermath of punk who did not spit in his audience 's eye . |
| 4 | The sequence of developments to be outlined below is becoming known as K-type transition , with the implication that there are other types . |
| 5 | The type was developed considerably by German growers , with more amenable size , choice blooms and scent , becoming known as Hybrid Musks . |
| 6 | The Uruguayan Juan Carlos Onetti has been writing since the Thirties and so prefigures the magic realists , but his books are only now becoming known to English readers . |
| 7 | ‘ But if he 'd known of this outrage , ’ said Philip , looking from one to the other of them with searching eyes , ‘ the boy would have told me in Isambard 's presence . |
| 8 | ‘ Poor Tom would have been so very unhappy if he 'd known of this situation , ’ she 'd sniffed while fumbling for a handkerchief . |
| 9 | Among the flowers , a tribute from the hospital , to a nurse they 'd known for 5 years who 'll be deeply missed . |
| 10 | She was in the happiest frame of mind she 'd known in recent times when later that day she returned to her car . |
| 11 | Thus completed theses on Scottish geology are borrowed by BGS through BLDSC as soon as their existence is made known through published sources and informal contacts . |
| 12 | Public opinion on proposals for change is made known at public enquiries . |
| 13 | The Trust would address all correspondence and updates relating to Wildlife Sites to the nominated person and if possible that person would be made known to other members of staff within the Department as the ‘ holder ’ of the information on Wildlife Sites . |
| 14 | A detailed book provision policy exists and is made known to all members of staff . |
| 15 | A board , whose identity is made known to all competitors , begins sailing upwind on port tack past a buoy in the water about ten seconds before the start gun . |
| 16 | If we teach ourselves to say what we feel , we 'll become known as plain speakers . |
| 17 | In recent years the larger eddies of turbulent shear flows have become known as coherent structures . |
| 18 | Such a relatively abrupt change in the rate of increase of population size has become known as demographic transition . |
| 19 | ‘ Recently this has become known as sustainable tourism , and the key to it lies in co-operation , and once again the festival is presented to the public through the dedication of many individuals and the commitment of its sponsors . ’ |
| 20 | The night of December 16th 1943 , became known as Black Thursday , because a real pea-soup fog descended on eastern England while the squadrons were out , so that they came back to find every air field shrouded in gloom and had to land all over the place . |
| 21 | It was as if each species of inedible butterfly was mimicked by the others , and this convergence of colour pattern became known as Müllerian Mimicry . |
| 22 | In July 1839 , Spalding travelled to the village of Tuekakas — who became known as Old Joseph — in the beautiful Wallowa valley . |
| 23 | A deliberate attempt was made in 1966 to make assistance known and acceptable , when it became known as supplementary benefits . |
| 24 | We became known at that time as a labour school and still later , we were known as a farmer-labour school . |
| 25 | Pan Am , the third US carrier to cease operations in 1991 , was founded in 1927 and became known for expanding air routes to south America and pioneering US air travel to the Far East . |
| 26 | This may well have been produced in Venice , and it demonstrates how the idiom of Leonardo most probably became known to Venetian collectors and artists . |
| 27 | The field-worker became known among some policemen as ‘ Old Nosebag ’ , and there were long-running jokes about spelling people 's names correctly in Sinn Fein 's Republican News . |
| 28 | Details of this proposed political and economic " grand bargain " between the Soviet Union and the West , co-authored by Yavlinsky , Graham Allinson and Jeffrey Sachs , became known in early June . |
| 29 | After a time it became known in other faculties that this was rather a special lecturer and people reading classics or history or the sciences took the trouble to go over to Ramsey 's lectures and swell his class . |
| 30 | But his plans became known in cricketing circles and Gooch told senior England tour party officials about the break-up at a Sussex hotel before his team flew to India on Monday from Gatwick Airport . |