Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] have [adv] heard of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet outside the computing industry who has ever heard of Intel ? |
| 2 | This was the first time I had ever encountered anyone walking into a cathedral who had never heard of Jesus Christ . |
| 3 | ( In my enthusiasm , I sent this letter to everyone whose name and number were on my telephone pad ( I ’ d been out rather a lot , and other members of the family took the calls ) ; this included someone who 'd phoned for a different reason , and next day I got a somewhat bemused call from an elderly gentleman who had never heard of Donkey Lane , but thought it sounded a splendid project and wanted to know all about it . |
| 4 | Bonefish , in brief , was a very good man who had never heard of Sir Thomas Breakspear , and I was a very lucky man for the fortunate accident of having met Bonefish . |
| 5 | Dorothy 's Journals provide a record of the tour , which involved the use of a vehicle described as ‘ an Irish jaunting car ’ ; they made a pilgrimage to the grave of Burns and visited Sir Walter Scott , whose Lay of the Last Minstrel was to introduce the new metre of Christabel to a public who had never heard of the source . |
| 6 | Above all , it is sad that so many educated people have hardened themselves against science , because if they had not , and if instead of floundering historians who have never heard of Joseph Priestley and Erasmus Darwin , and effete scholars of English who have never heard of history , we had Renaissance men , then science might be more controllable , more easily and naturally directed to the fulfilment of human aims : an agent of democracy rather than ( as it so often has been ) of rule by military or commercial despotism . |