Example sentences of "[verb] known [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 The type was developed considerably by German growers , with more amenable size , choice blooms and scent , becoming known as Hybrid Musks .
4 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 .
5 Among the flowers , a tribute from the hospital , to a nurse they 'd known for 5 years who 'll be deeply missed .
6 She was in the happiest frame of mind she 'd known in recent times when later that day she returned to her car .
7 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 .
8 Public opinion on proposals for change is made known at public enquiries .
9 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 .
10 A detailed book provision policy exists and is made known to all members of staff .
11 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 .
12 If we teach ourselves to say what we feel , we 'll become known as plain speakers .
13 In recent years the larger eddies of turbulent shear flows have become known as coherent structures .
14 A deliberate attempt was made in 1966 to make assistance known and acceptable , when it became known as supplementary benefits .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 The farmer can not have known of ancient alignments , and his reconstruction did not accord with the circle 's original orientation on the southern moon .
20 Gregory may well have known of these claims , and have thought of them as pagan .
21 The origins of the Norfolk Broads have only become known in recent years .
22 An incidental advantage of splitting pupillage is that you thereby become known in two places instead of one .
23 Originally without a generic title , this serial has eventually become known by four names : ‘ The Spaceship ’ , ‘ Inside The Spaceship ’ , ‘ Beyond The Sun ’ ( a hangover from the retitling of Malcolm Hulke 's story ‘ The Hidden Planet ’ ) and ‘ The Edge of Destruction ’ .
24 ‘ I 've known of chemical conversions to ideology . ’
25 They quote an Under Secretary commenting upon informal communications networks : ‘ Some of these people I 've known for twenty-five years and we can of course communicate with each other almost in code . ’
26 ‘ We 've known for 23 years what the potential problems were but done little to solve them , ’ says Hinners .
27 He said : ‘ I 'm here to learn about the situation on the ground beyond things that I 've known from previous trips and a long-term study of the issues .
28 Foresters had known of such things before .
29 Crosby in 1981 was a classic example : the voters lost a man they had known for thirty years and they did n't know who to vote for instead .
30 Wenger 's data show that 43 per cent of elderly people named as a confidant someone they had known for at least 50 years , and 75 per cent named someone they had known for 30 years .
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