Example sentences of "[pron] have be know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been known to erm , one time only , actually I ca n't do that , oh , but I do bath t t t t |
| 2 | It was made explicit by the inclusion in those Conventions of the famous provision in the Preamble which has been known as the Martens clause . |
| 3 | Of course the most famous object in Andromeda is the Great Spiral , M31 , which has been known from very early times . |
| 4 | Thus the Hellenistic age saw an intellectual event of the first order : the confrontation of the Greeks with four other civilizations , three of which had been practically unknown to them before , and one of which had been known under very different conditions . |
| 5 | He pursued the antimicrobial properties of soil organisms , particularly actinomycetes , which had been known since the 1920s to produce inhibitory substances . |
| 6 | Glasgow University 's recently published study of homelessness among the young in Scotland simply highlights the facts which have been known to anyone who had been working in the social security system in whatever capacity for a number of years . |
| 7 | As children we called her Minna , and she has been known to us and to our friends as Minna ever since . |
| 8 | In her days as a schoolteacher she 'd been known for the quickness of her wit and her clarity of thought . |
| 9 | That was after the war ; during the war itself she had been known as just M , wherever she went . |
| 10 | That was how she had been known as a child when people had contrasted her with her sister Paula . |
| 11 | Seeing God in everything has been known for nearly 400 years as pantheism , though the idea is as old as religion itself . |
| 12 | They 'd been known to us for years as a couple of minor police informers , dabblers in espionage who never come up with anything much . ’ |
| 13 | Although they have been known for many years their evolutionary position is still hotly debated . |
| 14 | These are called reaves and , while they have been known for a long time , their age , extent and probable purpose have only recently been recognised . |
| 15 | Alum Pot and its attendant caves were amongst the earliest to attract the curiosity of local explorers and they have been known in intimate detail since the middle of last century . |
| 16 | The information required will be — the full names of the ceased person , and any other names that they have been known by , including the maiden surname of a woman who has been married ; their date and place of birth ; their recent occupation , and their husband 's full name and occupation , if the person who has died was a married woman . |
| 17 | If he has been known at all to movie-goers thus far , it 's been as Spike Lee 's cinematographer : even when Lee 's brashness caused you to squirm in your seat , you still have something pretty marvellous to look at , and that 's Ernest Dickerson 's work . |
| 18 | It has been known for the hinges on a canopy to fail or for poorly designed and faulty catches to fail in flight , resulting in a lost canopy . |
| 19 | I will ask him some time what prompted his winning play but it has been known for players to forget matters like that after a week 's hard work . |
| 20 | When driving with the rear doors open , as is necessary on warm days to provide ventilation , exhaust fumes escape into the vehicle , making the journey for those in the back even more uncomfortable ; and it has been known for policemen in the back to fall out of the vehicle . |
| 21 | It has been known for some years now that records of the electricity activity of the brain during sleep — by electrodes attached to the scalp , face and neck — confirm that different types of sleep exist . |
| 22 | It has been known for centuries that music affects our state of mind and emotions , and so affects our body . |
| 23 | It has been known for a tough roadman-sprinter to control the race in these big hills , not to lose much time on the Ballon , then rejoin the leading group , dominate them on the long downhill run into Mulhouse and win the stage . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It has been known for staff to accept offers of jobs on the assumption that crêche places and hours will be organised to fit around the duties of employees . |
| 26 | This tradition happily has been continued by his successors whose duties have included presiding at the Annual General Meeting , an unpredictable , lively affair where it has been known for election to the Board to be determined by the toss of a coin ! |
| 27 | Where the ranges of the tiger and the Asian lion overlap , it has been known for the two to interbreed . |
| 28 | It has been known for Goblins to get so ambitious that the entire catapult springs from its mounts and hits the Goblin splat in the face , putting paid to the whole device . |
| 29 | It has been known for many years that damage to the left hemisphere is more likely to affect language ability than damage to the right , suggesting that the left hemisphere is very important for language . |
| 30 | It has been known for a long time , and has led to the more modern practice called ‘ foliar feeding ’ , in which the purpose is not so much to correct deficiencies , but to encourage a boost in performance , yield and so on by spraying major element solutions on to the leaves in the same way . |