Example sentences of "have [adv] known " in BNC.
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| 1 | The administration has long known that it faces a bloody fight with conservative insurers and physicians and their hangers-on . |
| 2 | I mean Leonardo , without question one of the most outstanding geniuses the world has ever known — but he said that . ’ |
| 3 | As a Celtic expert writes in the show 's catalogue , ‘ Theirs is the first , the oldest , the greatest and the most illuminating ornamental art that Europe has ever known . ’ |
| 4 | That is a harsh judgment to make of the freest-flowing and most sophisticated ( that is , complicated ) financial markets the world has ever known . |
| 5 | The rush of mergers and acquisitions in America in the 1980s was not the largest the country has ever known . |
| 6 | In other words this area is the greatest celebration of nature our planet has ever known . |
| 7 | The poignancy of this catastrophe is the greater when it is realised that Andrew Carnegie , the greatest benefactor the British public library system has ever known , was himself a cotton man who started life as a boy in a cotton mill . |
| 8 | Then I remember that the greatest power of good that this world has ever known began with one man and his twelve followers . |
| 9 | It could even now be starting the greatest revolution our British culture has ever known . |
| 10 | We realise today that this reactionary generation grew up to be the most materialistic the world has ever known . |
| 11 | Quite simply , at his peak , Johnny Byrne was one of the most gifted footballers Crystal Palace FC has ever known . |
| 12 | ‘ Ask yourself , John , a device the size of a nuclear tactical shell used by the artillery , with damage confined only to the research station , or the dissemination of some of the most deadly bacterial and viral agents the world has ever known . ’ |
| 13 | I set out to be the best athlete Britain has ever known and I 've achieved that . |
| 14 | ‘ I set out to be the best athlete Britain has ever known and I 've achieved that . |
| 15 | Just before one o'clock on Monday morning , 5 December 1791 , the greatest composer the world has ever known finally found the ‘ long rest ’ he needed so desperately . |
| 16 | As Bellamy says , ‘ East St. Louis , Belleville , the chip on the shoulder , the bond with mother and grandmother that carried over into his career , the move to the West Coast … what emerged was a great player and one of the toughest , roughest competitors the game has ever known ’ . |
| 17 | It seemed churlish at this point to mention that Eitzel had come all the way from San Francisco and is one of the greatest songwriters humanity has ever known . |
| 18 | Its language , after 1945 , suddenly became the lingua franca of the world — the first mankind has ever known — and more than half of the world 's mail , it is said , is now in English . |
| 19 | What is not disputed , however , is that their current degree of refinement and decorative panache is primarily the result of the skill and artistry of the 16th and 17th-century Persian weavers and designers , who took a number of hitherto rather simple motifs and compositions and turned them into some of the most beautiful , elaborate and awe-inspiring examples of textile art the world has ever known . |
| 20 | " I shall stand first and foremost for the exercise of a complete and thorough boycott of the Germans as the cruellest slaughterers of innocent lives on the high seas that the world has ever known . |
| 21 | Man o'War is probably one of the best race horses the world has ever known . |
| 22 | Woods was recently described by Ian Wooldridge as the ‘ bravest editor South Africa has ever known ’ . |
| 23 | Your great-grandfather was the most remarkable High King Ireland has ever known , Grainne ; he liked to listen to the talk of people from other cultures , and he liked to learn about other lands . |
| 24 | Together we will form the finest army that Ireland has ever known . ’ |
| 25 | Here she is measuring up to Robert Wadlow , the tallest man the world has ever known . |
| 26 | Whatever happens , he concluded , ‘ we are surely about to witness the most momentous struggle for a country 's conscience that modern Africa has ever known . ’ |
| 27 | I want to know you the way no man has ever known a woman before . ’ |
| 28 | We have to face the fact that there is a bigger risk of nuclear proliferation at present than the world has ever known . |
| 29 | I agree with my hon. Friend that it is vital at this time , when there is the greatest risk of proliferation that the world has ever known and when the world 's greatest nuclear power is in a state of disintegration , that we ensure that while we take every positive and constructive step to try to deal with that very grave situation , we recognise the need to maintain our essential safeguard , our own nuclear deterrent . |
| 30 | The Minister of State turns away , but she and the Home Secretary have presided over the worst crime figures that the country has ever known . |