Example sentences of "have been known " in BNC.
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| 1 | But religious education has been known to be fundamentalist and in some cases anti-catholic , depending on the teacher . |
| 2 | ‘ I have heard , ’ said Henry slowly , ‘ that on occasion — by accident , usually — aconite has been known to have been mistaken for horseradish . ’ |
| 3 | The earwig is not immediately recognisable as a gardener 's friend , and has been known to damage fruit . |
| 4 | It has been known for the hinges on a canopy to fail or for poorly designed and faulty catches to fail in flight , resulting in a lost canopy . |
| 5 | For a long time it has been known that heavy drinking during pregnancy can badly affect a baby 's development so that when it is born , its face and head are deformed and it is mentally backward . |
| 6 | He takes his work-ethic from his leader who , rather than stop , has been known to replace broken guitar strings while hammering out a perfect twelve-bar blues riff . |
| 7 | Kelly trains as hard as the rest of the squad at a sports centre in nearby Stone , but according to the team 's joint manager , Ken Roberts , he has been known to polish off three Chinese take-aways afterwards . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Much of it has been known before , from the account published by J. C. Masterman — one of the MI5 men concerned — in 1972 . |
| 11 | Again he misses the answer — which is , of course , ‘ No , only once , — and says with a grave look that usually the dogs see it even in poor visibility , but in white-outs it has been known . |
| 12 | It has been known for some years now that records of the electricity activity of the brain during sleep — by electrodes attached to the scalp , face and neck — confirm that different types of sleep exist . |
| 13 | He has been known to ban from his salon journalists who have criticised Saint Laurent 's more feeble efforts . |
| 14 | This appeal has been known to override other considerations . |
| 15 | He is also the epitome of the New Man , and has been known to leave his office to arrive home in time to bath his daughter , Mary-Claire , and read her a story before bed . |
| 16 | Before the 1987 General Election he had a stand-up row over defence policy with Lord Callaghan , the former Labour Prime Minister , in the House of Commons tea-room , and he has been known to square up to Tories who have enraged him . |
| 17 | The famous American film star , W C Fields , has been known to earn as much as £1,000 a day and yet he has said that his greatest thrill in life is the luxury of stretching out at night between freshly laundered sheets . |
| 18 | Ever since the pioneering field-work on chimpanzees of the Reynolds ( 1965 ) the species has been known to have a markedly ‘ loose ’ society when compared , for instance , with baboon troops . |
| 19 | This mill has been known as Mill Dene and before that Wagstaffs . |
| 20 | ‘ It has been known . |
| 21 | But be warned : the Hearing Research Trust point out that occasionally aspirin has been known to cause hearing loss , particularly if pill-taking is combined with exposure to persistent loud noise . |
| 22 | COUSTEAU : Fully grown , it has been known to reach up to forty feet in size . |
| 23 | For obvious reasons , garlic essence is not usually employed in aromatherapy massage ( though it has been known ! ) but instead , is taken as a medicine in the form of garlic capsules . |
| 24 | The resemblance is superficial and since 1946 the polled has been known as the British White . |
| 25 | This colour type has been known in the lowland regions bordering the North Sea , especially in south Dendre valley , since before 1600 . |
| 26 | Clearly this notion , like so many other learning principles , has been known and practised by succeeding generations of child-rearers as simple common sense . |
| 27 | A common problem in geographical information systems ( GIS ) , and one which has been known about for many years in the context of choropleth mapping , is that of producing maps from population data aggregated over selected arbitrary areal units . |
| 28 | It has been known for centuries that music affects our state of mind and emotions , and so affects our body . |
| 29 | The latter phenomenon has been known for some time , Zwaardemaker recording several ‘ cancelling pairs ’ as far back as 1875 , which included : |
| 30 | Seeing God in everything has been known for nearly 400 years as pantheism , though the idea is as old as religion itself . |