Example sentences of "[noun] have been known [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a century this story has been known from the Epic of Gilgamesh , Tablet 11 . |
| 2 | THE action of alkali metals and their oxides as promoters for many catalytic reactions has been known for nearly a century . |
| 3 | Ever since its own time this parliament has been known as the ‘ Good Parliament ’ ; it has been thoroughly analysed by modern historians , and the Anonimalle Chronicle of St Mary 's Abbey , York , preserves an account of the deliberations amongst the commons which surpasses in its detail any other surviving account of the debates in a fourteenth-century parliament . |
| 4 | The existence of the tape has been known for months and a copy of it was made available to a newspaper many weeks ago . |
| 5 | Though popular with patients , such a departure from traditional practice has been known to outrage consultants , demanding to know what the researcher is doing with their patients ! |
| 6 | The toxic nature of some animals has been known for a long time and man has utilised their venoms and poisons for various purposes . |
| 7 | Gryschenko had been known to be unhappy about embarking on the first leg of the race . |
| 8 | The squinch had been known for some time and was used in Persia , Turkestan , Armenia and Asia Minor . |
| 9 | This was obviously untrue since Blake's-arrest had been known to the Russians for several weeks . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mass strandings have been known since the time of the ancient Greeks ; Aristotle himself recorded them . |
| 12 | Wise Speke analyst John Dean , says : ‘ Whessoe and Varec have been known to one another for some considerable time although given their emphasis on different geographical markets they have rarely found themselves in direct competition . ’ |
| 13 | Garlic has been known for its healing properties for more than 5,000 years . |
| 14 | This colour type has been known in the lowland regions bordering the North Sea , especially in south Dendre valley , since before 1600 . |
| 15 | This mill has been known as Mill Dene and before that Wagstaffs . |
| 16 | The third case was impossible to assess , for Mrs Kitchener 's daughter did not want to be interviewed again , but the development officer 's account at a time when Mrs Kitchener had been known to the project for about a year gives some indication of the situation : |
| 17 | FLARES on the Sun have been known for many years to produce powerful bursts of X-rays , gamma-rays and charged particles . |
| 18 | The site has been known to many antiquaries from the eighteenth century onwards ; Gordon recorded that the circuit of the walls was still conspicuous , a description which conflicts with the almost contemporary report of that other noted antiquarian of Hadrian 's Wall , John Horsley , who wrote that the Roman site was almost entirely levelled and under the plough . |
| 19 | Walsh has been known as the demon bowler , but to the Gloucestershire team , who kknow hin as Shortie , he 's more often been their saviour . |
| 20 | A local builder obliged by knocking down the remains in exchange for the materials he could salvage , and the place had been known as the Half House by local people ever since . |
| 21 | Although the existence of nitrate pollution and its health implications had been known for decades , in the UK it was not thought to be much of a problem until 1984 . |
| 22 | The house in Mouncy Street had been known in this casual society as a place to go . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Projectile weapons had been known from Roman times , but much of the technology was redeveloped during the crusades . |
| 25 | Other diuretics have been known for a long time , especially arsenical compounds of mercury . |
| 26 | Variants of this reaction have been known for many years . |
| 27 | Variants of this reaction have been known for many years . |
| 28 | But religious education has been known to be fundamentalist and in some cases anti-catholic , depending on the teacher . |
| 29 | In New Zealand mortality from sudden infant death syndrome has been known to be higher in Maori children for some time , but the reason has been unclear . |
| 30 | 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 . |