Example sentences of "[verb] be know [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that it has been known for drugs to be smuggled in large packages . |
| 2 | This tradition happily has been continued by his successors whose duties have included presiding at the Annual General Meeting , an unpredictable , lively affair where it has been known for election to the Board to be determined by the toss of a coin ! |
| 3 | I will ask him some time what prompted his winning play but it has been known for players to forget matters like that after a week 's hard work . |
| 4 | It has been known for caterers to come in at 8am , turn all the ovens on and not use them for three hours . ’ |
| 5 | The existence of the tape has been known for months and a copy of it was made available to a newspaper many weeks ago . |
| 6 | It has been known for Goblins to get so ambitious that the entire catapult springs from its mounts and hits the Goblin splat in the face , putting paid to the whole device . |
| 7 | It has been known for staff to accept offers of jobs on the assumption that crêche places and hours will be organised to fit around the duties of employees . |
| 8 | Finally , they could sometimes be accused of deception and dishonesty — it has been known for reporters from The Independent to lobby the lobby . |
| 9 | It has been known for centuries that music affects our state of mind and emotions , and so affects our body . |
| 10 | The most common victim of mobbing is the owl , and this phenomenon has been known for centuries . |
| 11 | It has been known for developers to move in virtually overnight to demolish a building once they find out attempts are being made to list it . |
| 12 | When driving with the rear doors open , as is necessary on warm days to provide ventilation , exhaust fumes escape into the vehicle , making the journey for those in the back even more uncomfortable ; and it has been known for policemen in the back to fall out of the vehicle . |
| 13 | Though popular with patients , such a departure from traditional practice has been known to outrage consultants , demanding to know what the researcher is doing with their patients ! |
| 14 | A.agassizii has been known to science for over 100 years , having been described by Steindachner in 1875 . |
| 15 | That matter is not really as we perceive it has been known to chemists and physicists for over 150 years , but despite Einstein 's demonstration , and that of other atomic scientists since , that matter and energy are interchangeable , we persist in our view that physical matter is solid and stable . |
| 16 | Composers do not seem to have found much use for this device , though it has been known since Weber 's day . |
| 17 | From then on the lake has been known as DRD Lake ! |
| 18 | A sandstone bridge at the meeting of Newham and Marton West becks in Acklam has been known as Devil 's Bridge for 200 years but no one knows why . |
| 19 | This mill has been known as Mill Dene and before that Wagstaffs . |
| 20 | The people to be interviewed are known as freight forwarding agents , who act for individual exporters and importers . |
| 21 | Vents through which steam or gas are emitted are known as fumaroles or solfataras , while the precipitation of minerals such as silica and calcium carbonate around a vent can create a sinter mound . |
| 22 | The good they have done and the influence they have had are known to God and cherished in the hearts of those who remember gratefully their words and their work . |
| 23 | Most of those closed were known as paper or ‘ brass plate ’ banks — banks in name only , with few assets but with the precious protection of confidentiality and secrecy . |
| 24 | When 60 million items are included on a computer , and however carefully information may be segregated — I understand that the system used is known as NASCH , meaning name , age , sex , colour , and height — one is worried that it could be easy to confuse one John Smith with another John Smith . |
| 25 | At Bearsted they have left Fauchon 's Lane and a house recently sold is known as Fauchon Cottage . |
| 26 | So too are your gestures , and the overall message they give is known as body language . |
| 27 | Similar time sharing is known in dispersal . |
| 28 | the truth erm , oh you never , never hold back and make be known in God 's name the kingdom , he always told the truth whether it was popular or not , that 's really , so erm come on you , are you going out with Clare , come on , hey , come on , come on Pip , go on , go on |
| 29 | Many of these facts would have been known to Eva as she took the four day journey by train from Cape Town to land-locked Rhodesia . |
| 30 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |