Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] been known [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Projectile weapons had been known from Roman times , but much of the technology was redeveloped during the crusades .
4 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 .
5 The research has been done for some time and the results have been known for some time , yet still the Government do nothing .
6 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 .
7 These letters have been known for some time , as the aggrieved Leone published them in a pamphlet in 1764 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
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