Example sentences of "[verb] [been] know for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | He says that it has been known for drugs to be smuggled in large packages . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | It has been known for caterers to come in at 8am , turn all the ovens on and not use them for three hours . ’ |
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 | 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 . |
6 | Finally , they could sometimes be accused of deception and dishonesty — it has been known for reporters from The Independent to lobby the lobby . |
7 | It has been known for centuries that music affects our state of mind and emotions , and so affects our body . |
8 | The most common victim of mobbing is the owl , and this phenomenon has been known for centuries . |
9 | It has been known for developers to move in virtually overnight to demolish a building once they find out attempts are being made to list it . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | There was apparently an agreement between Pickard and Wasbrough allowing the latter to use the crank , and the engine-builder who was most incensed at the patenting of a device which he maintained had been known for centuries was James Watt [ q.v . ] . |
13 | The broken stag had been known for years . |
14 | Alcohol , opium , cannabis , and tobacco have been known for centuries and the history of each fills many books . |
15 | Around forty of these drawings have been known for years from books and exhibitions , but as things are , I am the only person in the world at the moment to have complete knowledge of what that collection was in its entirety . |