Example sentences of "they [vb base] be know " in BNC.
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| 1 | This process whereby financial intermediaries lend for longer periods of time than they borrow is known as maturity transformation . |
| 2 | So too are your gestures , and the overall message they give is known as body language . |
| 3 | I have good teeth and they 've been known to blind at five yards in strong sunlight . |
| 4 | I my personal opinion a Sloth might be a good analogy although they have been know to get down quicker than John ( i.e falling out of the tree ) |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In Strasburg , they have been known to lace beer with Picon , thereby ruining both drinks ( as Queen Victoria reputedly did with claret and malt whisky ) , but still the result is not especially quenching . |
| 7 | They have been known about , and planned against , since the first allied troops started arriving in Arabia . |
| 8 | Although they have been known for many years their evolutionary position is still hotly debated . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They are surprisingly early maturing : like the Jersey , they have been known to calve even younger than two years old . |
| 11 | We males naturally reject the idea that we 're not at all times ready to cream anything that moves as a monstrous slander on our virility , while women certainly do n't want to think that creatures whose sexual urges are so undiscriminating that they have been known to rape grannies and animals and even corpses , for God 's sake , could possibly find them so unattractive that they need to simulate orgasm . |
| 12 | They have been known to kill mothers in the throes of giving birth , and park rangers run the risk of losing their own lives if set upon by poachers . |
| 13 | They have been known to tire of tormenting their poor victims , often leaving them by the roadside , mortally wounded but still alive . |
| 14 | A predominantly female race , they have been known to take mortals to be their husbands . |
| 15 | They have been known both to help and to hurt the desert people . |
| 16 | Although Uaru are not noted for equipment bashing , they have been known to move it gently aside , or even to spawn on it if it happens to be in their chosen spot . |
| 17 | CHECK the castle is moored securely to the ground and never use it in high winds or wet weather as they have been known to slip over and wet slippery surfaces can be dangerous . |
| 18 | Tigers are catholic in their taste ; they have been known to eat frogs and will sometimes catch fish . |
| 19 | They have been known to swim to an offshore tern colony and kill dozens of chicks and adults in a single night . |
| 20 | On the other hand there are a few techniques , frequently used in constructing proofs , to which it is perhaps useful to draw attention as they have been known to give students the occasional difficulty . |
| 21 | For the same reason they have been known to treat surrounding farmland as though it were a vast municipal park across which their dogs can roam or their children can ride their ponies without much thought for the consequences . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They have been known to bite and scratch on occasion … |
| 24 | That 's it well tha there 's Peggy says I said oh well I 'm a bit erm worried about taking them and I said they have been known to get up and walk out , and said , surely not ! |