Example sentences of "[noun] have know for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Rolfe , conference chairman , said : ‘ People within the industry have known for some time there is a need for such a gathering . |
| 2 | The move has been criticized by environmental organizations , which argue that the cars could be fitted with a converter because the cost , around £300 per car , is not prohibitive and that in any case manufacturers have known for some time when the law would come into effect . |
| 3 | Wilson , shut up in her own world all winter , was astonished to learn what everyone else in Florence had known for many a month — French troops had poured into Piedmont and 1848 was to be repeated all over again . |
| 4 | As the official investigation got under way , there were allegations that senior US officials had known for some time of BNL 's dealings with Iraq . |
| 5 | Organisations have known for some considerable time that the acquisition , distribution and effective use of information is a key factor in gaining a competitive advantage . |
| 6 | Further study is necessarily being completed ; but the evidence of linkage between the simultaneous appearance of climatic phenomena in Kansas , Chad , Bihar and in the south — eastern Pacific Ocean suggests what all geographers have known for many years — that the globe works as one complete system , one vast interactive machine , and that the divisions man has forced upon it are no more than crudely artificial devices for our own intellectual convenience . |
| 7 | People have known for some time what has been going on , and I 'm surprised it has taken this long to come out into the open . |
| 8 | Scientists have known for some time that fusion reactions between nuclei of deuterium and tritium are more likely if the nuclear spins line up in the same direction . |
| 9 | The Special Branch had known for some weeks that he was in Germany . |