Example sentences of "have been known [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The toxic nature of some animals has been known for a long time and man has utilised their venoms and poisons for various purposes . |
| 4 | The effect of early experience on the mating preferences of birds and mammals has been known for a long time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It has been known for a long time that , partly due to their immense size , elephants can hear much lower sounds than we can . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Where the ranges of the tiger and the Asian lion overlap , it has been known for the two to interbreed . |
| 9 | It has been known to the West since the 17th century . |
| 10 | In fact it has been known since the late 1950s ( see for example Nature , vol. 208 , p 423 ) that Po is widely distributed in the environment , and in man , as a result of atmospheric fall-out of the decay products of natural radon-222 , with an abundance in northern temperate latitudes of about 0.06 curie per sq.km or of the order of 10 6 curies in total over the surface of the world land mass . |
| 11 | It has been known since the 1970s that the vehicles which have dramatically increased our mobility in the last 50 years have also constituted a grave danger . |
| 12 | The site , near modern Kerma , has been known since the 1920s but the city underneath has only emerged over the last ten years . |
| 13 | One in the British Museum ( fig. 77 ) has been known since the eighteenth century and is called the Choiseul-Gouffier Apollo after a former owner . |
| 14 | Although serious research on the subject of mobbing did not begin until around the time of the Second World War , it has been known as a natural phenomenon for over 2,500 years . |
| 15 | The resemblance is superficial and since 1946 the polled has been known as the British White . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I I think that er what has been known as an inner northern bypass , that is a road which passes between Harrogate and Knaresborough , could act as a very effective relief road for the A fifty nine . |
| 20 | This colour type has been known in the lowland regions bordering the North Sea , especially in south Dendre valley , since before 1600 . |
| 21 | For a century this story has been known from the Epic of Gilgamesh , Tablet 11 . |
| 22 | In her days as a schoolteacher she 'd been known for the quickness of her wit and her clarity of thought . |
| 23 | It can be speculated that the informants recruited in Operation Ward may have been known to the IRA for months or even years . |
| 24 | None of these facts , Simone pointed out , could have been known to the healer she consulted in Canterbury . |
| 25 | The fact that the US was canvassing support from other Asian states would very likely have been known to the Russians and Chinese ; and it is at least conceivable that this fact influenced their own decision . |
| 26 | Many of the children will have experienced poverty and insecurity , if not actual neglect , and may well have been known to the health or education authorities as children at special risk before they come into the care of the social services department . |
| 27 | Oliver North to Iran , travelling on Irish passports , to organize the sale of TOW missiles and launchers to the Iranian government in exchange for the release of American hostages ; details of money transfers and bank accounts , with dates and places — most of it based on incidents and conversations that could only have been known to the Iranian or American negotiators . |
| 28 | I have already discussed the improbability of the entire aircraft , its crew and its troops disappearing totally over land ; though , of course , had it come down in enemy-occupied territory , nothing might ever have been known of the matter if all the occupants had perished , and certainly not if any survivors had been disposed of ( which , given the purpose of their mission , would have been highly probable ) . |
| 29 | The defect in any case may not have been known at the time of the sale . |
| 30 | There was not one face amongst them that would have been known by the populace at large . |