Example sentences of "known [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has even been known for a company to respond to a request for information six weeks after the initial query and then to complain that their product had been left out ! |
| 2 | The problem of toxics and blue-green algae had been known for a century in countries like Australia and the US where it occurred naturally . |
| 3 | It was a word that Masklin had only known for a year . |
| 4 | Sir Anthony famously discovered in Cardiff this month what the rest of the country had known for a year : that many children saw the grisly film and were delighted by his Oscar-winning portrayal of the cannibalistic anti-hero . |
| 5 | Three million unemployed , homelessness and poverty on a scale not known for a generation . |
| 6 | ‘ That depends on whether or not we get the green light for a full series , and that wo n't be known for a couple of months . |
| 7 | Mills was amoral and untrustworthy , but we 've known for a while now that he definitely worked for us . ’ |
| 8 | It has been known for a woman going into labour to suddenly perceive the connection between herself , her mother , mother 's mother , all the mothers of her line stretching back to the beginnings of time , and all the daughters that will follow after . |
| 9 | If she had n't known for a fact that he liked nothing about her she might have mistaken that note in his voice for admiration . |
| 10 | Well , there was a time when it was a bolt from the blue , yes , I mean I 've known for a week or two , but we were delighted to receive it , er we do n't er , it is something that we said months ago that we supported the N H S Lottery because we do feel that money can be raised in this way painlessly towards particularly research and the sorts of things that the N H S on the whole has never really supported fully . |
| 11 | And then in nineteen forty two the secretary , the very well known for a number of reasons secretary of the Hosiery Workers , his name was , he was the J P and he was er er I would n't say he 's a a pillar of the Tory Party but he were n't far off , you , well he died . |
| 12 | We have known for a number of years that we with every other council in the land , are facing the government that does not believe in local government . |
| 13 | The public interest may be especially important when little is known about a product and where the consequences for society of any error may be catastrophic . |
| 14 | On their heads they wore a steel bonnet , either a ‘ salade ’ like a rimless upturned bowl , a peaked version known as a burgonet , or a morion with curved brim and raised centrepiece like a cockscomb . |
| 15 | This is sometimes known as a personnel specification and is an essential part of pre-interview preparation . |
| 16 | Gerwyn explains , ‘ You take a block of woodland , and leaving the occasional tree known as a standard , traditionally used for building timber , you cut the rest down to ground level and remove all the waste timber completely . |
| 17 | When the breach finally occurs the old course of the meander is left as a curved through valley , perhaps drained by minor tributary streams , while the remains of the spur form an isolated hill , often known as a meander core . |
| 18 | By far the most frequent cause of irreversible damage to the heart muscle ( commonly known as a heart attack ) is a complete blockage in one of the coronary arteries — a coronary thrombosis . |
| 19 | Known as a field man par excellence , he led the Israeli assassination teams that hunted down and killed Palestinians involved in the Black September terrorist organisation in the early 1970s . |
| 20 | This fusion cell , which is technically known as a zygote , could be regarded as the foundation stone of the new individual . |
| 21 | The fertilized egg , now known as a zygote , continues to move along the Fallopian tube towards the uterus , and while it does so , divides once or twice a day . |
| 22 | Yeah , the uni er the uniform branch turn up to investigate a crime and if they find fingerprints they will get what 's known as a scenes of crime officer to take the fingerprints off the wall , yeah ? |
| 23 | The gardens of Ireland have a special dreamlike quality , like gardens known as a child — where everything was bigger and greener , and chattering rabbits abounded . |
| 24 | Their mother , pale as the highland moon that she had known as a child , slept like a ghost embroidered on smoke . |
| 25 | That was how she had been known as a child when people had contrasted her with her sister Paula . |
| 26 | I told her of the storms I had known as a child in America , of the sea lifting the paving stones in Penzance , of the ice storms in New England where each twig , each leaf is coated in ice , and of how , when the sun shines , it is as though the world were crystallised , as though nature were encapsulated in a diamond . |
| 27 | My mother was visiting someone who worked there whom she 'd known as a child . |
| 28 | He 's known as a bit of a trouble-maker but he 's really helping and striving to make things work well . |
| 29 | I 'm known as a bit of a bastard , ’ he said proudly , heaving the pile of newspapers onto the floor and in the process dropping his wallet out of his jacket pocket . |
| 30 | He 's known as a bit of a smoothie but Nigel Havers has been given a harder edge in his new series , Sleepers , starting next week . |