Example sentences of "know to have been [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't eaten since my snackette supper the night before and I was so hungry that I would have eaten almost anything , even a plate of my grandmother 's famously awful creamed ham and carrots , the only dish I know to have been inspired by vomit . |
| 2 | Although thousands of civilians have been reported extrajudicially executed or ‘ disappeared ’ in the emergency zones during the past decade , no members of the armed forces are known to have been convicted for their part in these violations . |
| 3 | Indeed , Eanwulf 's connections with Hwiccian territory appear to have been considerable , for he founded the monastery of Bredon in Worcestershire , of which Offa was subsequently a patron ( CS 234 , 847 : S 117 ; CS 236 : S 116 ) but Offa 's family is not certainly known to have been related to the princes of the Hwicce . |
| 4 | Paulinus of Pella provides an unusual example of a member of the senatorial aristocracy known to have been bankrupted by the barbarian invasions . |
| 5 | Great victories could become legendary : Chlothar II 's defeat of the Saxons in the early seventh century is known to have been commemorated in the songs of washerwomen . |
| 6 | His removal , known to have been sanctioned by President Carlos Salinas de Gortari , followed a public uproar when he attempted to exonerate state and local officials after explosions in the sewers of the city of Guadalajara on April 22 had left 200 people dead and caused widespread devastation [ see p. 38859 ] . |
| 7 | The probability is that beads from English Neolithic long barrows and enclosures and described as made of shale or inferior jet came from the Kimmeridge locality in Dorset where bracelets are known to have been made during the Early Iron Age . |
| 8 | The composition of the Leo X tiles does not compare with any of these , including those from the postulated source at Genoa , but they are almost identical to the composition of contemporary tiles definitely known to have been made at Seville , such as the example in Figure 6.3b . |
| 9 | More than one treaty is known to have been made with the Burgundians , although some may not have had imperial approval . |
| 10 | Mont St Michel is known to have been disputed between Brittany and Normandy at about this date , and Robert 's fleet may from the first have been intended to operate against it and the Bretons . |
| 11 | Other spellings — Kyese , Keise , Keese — are known to have been recorded in the shires of Gloucester , Worcester and Hereford during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , but today only the style Keyse is found in that area , and Kease appears nowhere except in the author 's own ancestral bloodline . |
| 12 | They comprised two operatic arias sung by the tenor Jean de Reszke , which are known to have been recorded in Paris on 22nd April 1905 . |
| 13 | ‘ I have heard , ’ said Henry slowly , ‘ that on occasion — by accident , usually — aconite has been known to have been mistaken for horseradish . ’ |
| 14 | The material occurs in the Old World near Lake Baikal and traces have been noted in the Pamirs , but the only source known to have been exploited in antiquity is that visited by Marco Polo in Badakhshan , north-east Afghanistan ( fig. 25 ) . |
| 15 | This is the first book known to have been written by a woman in English , and is recognised as one of the great spiritual writings . |
| 16 | These papers were a series of articles published in 1787 and 1788 to persuade the citizens of New York to ratify the U.S. Constitution ; most of the papers were known to have been written by Hamilton or by Madison , but the authorship of twelve of them was disputed . |
| 17 | This objection could be countered by examples of churches known to have been built on pagan sites , such as Cascob , Radnorshire and Fimber , East Yorkshire , which were actually built on tumuli . |
| 18 | The theatre is known to have been built in 1599 , and closed by 1642 , but if records are to be believed today 's rebuilding hardly matches the efficiency of 17th century construction workers . |
| 19 | A conservative estimate is that power must have grown by about 30bhp ; in any case , this figure is likely to be overtaken soon when the four-valve cylinder heads known to have been developed by sister company Cosworth are installed in the car . |
| 20 | Hundreds of such works are known to have been destroyed by the Vikings during their raids on the Irish coast . |
| 21 | Up to ten thousand people are known to have been killed in the earthquake which struck India . |
| 22 | Fluorite-barite and base- and precious-metals mineral deposits elsewhere in south-west England are now known to have been deposited from such brines . |
| 23 | It is pleasing to report the purchase during the year from the private owner of twenty-four half-sheets of a copy of Breviarium Aberdonense ( Edinburgh , 1509–10 ) , generally known as the Aberdeen Breviary , the earliest surviving substantial work known to have been printed in Scotland . |
| 24 | The sport is not new to Teesside where the game was known to have been played at about the turn of the century on six lawns at Albert Park , Middlesbrough until it was pushed out by tennis . |
| 25 | New Zealand was amply supplied with basalt , greywacke and argillite , each of which is known to have been used for the adze blades used to shape the timbers required for canoes , houses and defensive works . |
| 26 | The system is known to have been used in England in the first part of the eighth century , and continued to be employed by Anglo-Saxon kings until the tenth , when it fell into almost total disuse . |
| 27 | Searches that predominantly involve specific words or phrases known to have been used in the source material . |
| 28 | Apparatus known to have been used by a particular scientist , and collections of apparatus by the same maker , are particularly instructive . |
| 29 | It is known to have been held at some time ‘ on a Thursday with only four people there ’ . |
| 30 | This is one of three ‘ vellucent ’ bindings known to have been designed by Jessie M. King . |