Example sentences of "[verb] been 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 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Would the fact that he was put in as priest at Oldfield mean that Marr would have to have been known to Lord Dersingham ? ’ |
| 23 | Although the existence of nitrate pollution and its health implications had been known for decades , in the UK it was not thought to be much of a problem until 1984 . |
| 24 | There was apparently an agreement between Pickard and Wasbrough allowing the latter to use the crank , and the engine-builder who was most incensed at the patenting of a device which he maintained had been known for centuries was James Watt [ q.v . ] . |
| 25 | The broken stag had been known for years . |
| 26 | At the Pessarane Behesht camp the young man had been known as Matchsticks because he was very tall and thin , with long monkey arms which he moved in an uncoordinated fashion that amused his comrades . |
| 27 | In fact , mahogany had been known in England since Sir Walter Raleigh 's day but it took the French ban for it to become popular . |
| 28 | She had long shapely legs and had been known in Moscow by her nickname , ‘ The Smooch ’ . |
| 29 | Bronze , an alloy of mainly copper and tin , could be polished until it looked almost like gold , and the technique of making it had been known in Britain for centuries . |
| 30 | Alcohol , opium , cannabis , and tobacco have been known for centuries and the history of each fills many books . |