Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] know for [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 | FLARES on the Sun have been known for many years to produce powerful bursts of X-rays , gamma-rays and charged particles . |
4 | Variants of this reaction have been known for many years . |
5 | Variants of this reaction have been known for many years . |
6 | 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 . |
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 | 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 ) . |
9 | The research has been done for some time and the results have been known for some time , yet still the Government do nothing . |
10 | The latter phenomenon has been known for some time , Zwaardemaker recording several ‘ cancelling pairs ’ as far back as 1875 , which included : |
11 | These letters have been known for some time , as the aggrieved Leone published them in a pamphlet in 1764 . |
12 | 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 . |