Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been know for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The existence of the tape has been known for months and a copy of it was made available to a newspaper many weeks ago . |
| 2 | The squinch had been known for some time and was used in Persia , Turkestan , Armenia and Asia Minor . |
| 3 | Garlic has been known for its healing properties for more than 5,000 years . |
| 4 | FLARES on the Sun have been known for many years to produce powerful bursts of X-rays , gamma-rays and charged particles . |
| 5 | Variants of this reaction have been known for many years . |
| 6 | Variants of this reaction have been known for many years . |
| 7 | The problems of the system under which the starter operates a lever had been known for some years , but the Jockey Club and the course executive failed to replace it , the report added . |
| 8 | Although the general distribution of earthquakes around the world had been known for many years , it was only with the establishment of a comprehensive network of seismographic stations to monitor underground nuclear weapons testing in the early 1960s that a detailed global picture emerged ( Fig. 2.10 ) . |
| 9 | Alcohol , opium , cannabis , and tobacco have been known for centuries and the history of each fills many books . |
| 10 | The latter phenomenon has been known for some time , Zwaardemaker recording several ‘ cancelling pairs ’ as far back as 1875 , which included : |
| 11 | The most common victim of mobbing is the owl , and this phenomenon has been known for centuries . |
| 12 | The broken stag had been known for years . |
| 13 | As I 've mentioned already in the context of metaphors of memory , the phenomenon of ‘ animal electricity ’ and its relation to neural activity had been known for a long time — at least since Galvani 's demonstration in Bologna in the 1790s that electrical pulses caused a frog 's legs to twitch . |