Example sentences of "have been known [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Where the ranges of the tiger and the Asian lion overlap , it has been known for the two to interbreed . |
| 3 | It has been known to the West since the 17th century . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The site , near modern Kerma , has been known since the 1920s but the city underneath has only emerged over the last ten years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The resemblance is superficial and since 1946 the polled has been known as the British White . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This colour type has been known in the lowland regions bordering the North Sea , especially in south Dendre valley , since before 1600 . |
| 13 | For a century this story has been known from the Epic of Gilgamesh , Tablet 11 . |
| 14 | In her days as a schoolteacher she 'd been known for the quickness of her wit and her clarity of thought . |
| 15 | It can be speculated that the informants recruited in Operation Ward may have been known to the IRA for months or even years . |
| 16 | None of these facts , Simone pointed out , could have been known to the healer she consulted in Canterbury . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | The defect in any case may not have been known at the time of the sale . |
| 22 | There was not one face amongst them that would have been known by the populace at large . |
| 23 | ( 3 ) The estate of a partner who dies , or who becomes bankrupt , or of a partner who , not having been known to the person dealing with the firm to be a partner , retires from the firm , is not liable for partnership debts contracted after the date of the death , bankruptcy , or retirement respectively . |
| 24 | This was obviously untrue since Blake's-arrest had been known to the Russians for several weeks . |
| 25 | The third case was impossible to assess , for Mrs Kitchener 's daughter did not want to be interviewed again , but the development officer 's account at a time when Mrs Kitchener had been known to the project for about a year gives some indication of the situation : |
| 26 | Atomic fission had been known to the general public for a decade ; the awareness of fusion bombs was only four years old , so the possibility of a ‘ third and revolutionary way to produce a nuclear reaction without uranium , as in the fission reaction , or million degree heat as in the fusion reaction ’ generated a lot of excitement . |
| 27 | But the other barbarians — Egyptians , Persians , Babylonians and even Indians — had been known to the Greeks for centuries . |
| 28 | It had been known at the time of his appointment that Miyazawa and members of his Cabinet had been implicated , in varying degrees , in the Recruit-Cosmos share scandal which brought down the Takeshita administration in 1989 [ see pp. 36463-64 ; 36589 ] . |
| 29 | He pursued the antimicrobial properties of soil organisms , particularly actinomycetes , which had been known since the 1920s to produce inhibitory substances . |
| 30 | A local builder obliged by knocking down the remains in exchange for the materials he could salvage , and the place had been known as the Half House by local people ever since . |