Example sentences of "[vb past] be known [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | The existence of the tape , had been known for two-and-a-half years , as copies were sent anonymously to newspapers . |
| 5 | It had been known for some time that relations between Stephenson and Villa were strained because of the player 's insistence on living in his home-town of Newcastle , and several clubs , keen to secure him , were watching the situation closely . |
| 6 | The squinch had been known for some time and was used in Persia , Turkestan , Armenia and Asia Minor . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They could , in fact , be described by a particular solution of Einstein 's equations that had been known since 1917 , found by Karl Schwarzschild shortly after the discovery of general relativity . |
| 9 | That was after the war ; during the war itself she had been known as just M , wherever she went . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The house in Mouncy Street had been known in this casual society as a place to go . |
| 12 | Projectile weapons had been known from Roman times , but much of the technology was redeveloped during the crusades . |