Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been known [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The squinch had been known for some time and was used in Persia , Turkestan , Armenia and Asia Minor . |
| 2 | As members will be aware , the Local Government Regions and Districts have been known for some time , and the areas of the Sheriffdoms were published at the beginning of the year . |
| 3 | Wise Speke analyst John Dean , says : ‘ Whessoe and Varec have been known to one another for some considerable time although given their emphasis on different geographical markets they have rarely found themselves in direct competition . ’ |
| 4 | FLARES on the Sun have been known for many years to produce powerful bursts of X-rays , gamma-rays and charged particles . |
| 5 | The site has been known to many antiquaries from the eighteenth century onwards ; Gordon recorded that the circuit of the walls was still conspicuous , a description which conflicts with the almost contemporary report of that other noted antiquarian of Hadrian 's Wall , John Horsley , who wrote that the Roman site was almost entirely levelled and under the plough . |
| 6 | The house in Mouncy Street had been known in this casual society as a place to go . |
| 7 | In that year comparisons of Eliot with Pound were stimulated , and exacerbated , by the publication of what were called the ‘ drafts and transcripts ’ of The Waste Land ; that is to say , the heterogeneous packet of typescripts and manuscripts which Eliot had dumped on Pound in Paris , out of which Pound had helped Eliot to extricate the poem that for forty years had been known under that title . |
| 8 | Projectile weapons had been known from Roman times , but much of the technology was redeveloped during the crusades . |
| 9 | Variants of this reaction have been known for many years . |
| 10 | Variants of this reaction have been known for many years . |
| 11 | Although the link between social deprivation and road accident casualty rates has been known for some time , the scale of the problem has not been assessed either nationally or locally . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | The research has been done for some time and the results have been known for some time , yet still the Government do nothing . |
| 15 | His activities had been known to some antislavery figures long before , but in 1814 his Mitigation of Slavery was published along with an extensive and favourable account by the Scots abolitionist William Dickson in the form of Letters to Thomas Clarkson . |
| 16 | Luminescence has been known in geological materials since 1604 , when the alchemist Cascierolo described light emission from barite . |
| 17 | Thermosensitive processes ( the sensitivity of court-noué to heat treatment has been known since 1921 ) together with clonal selection are the primary methods of producing so-called ‘ virus-free ’ vinestocks . |
| 18 | The latter phenomenon has been known for some time , Zwaardemaker recording several ‘ cancelling pairs ’ as far back as 1875 , which included : |
| 19 | The result of the application to the Court of Appeal on 4 November 1991 might have been different if the true position had been known to that court . |
| 20 | These letters have been known for some time , as the aggrieved Leone published them in a pamphlet in 1764 . |
| 21 | Formerly known as managing clerks , this body of employees has been known as legal executives since 1963 when the Institute of Legal Executives was established . |
| 22 | But we know very little about the animals which bore these scales and although a few articulated remains have been known for several years , they show very little anatomical detail and it is not easy to identify immediate relatives . |