Example sentences of "known to have be [verb] in " in BNC.
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1 | The first of such groups was Ketley 's Building Society known to have been operating in Birmingham in 1775 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 ) . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Up to ten thousand people are known to have been killed in the earthquake which struck India . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Searches that predominantly involve specific words or phrases known to have been used in the source material . |
11 | So far , none are known to have been released in the UK . |
12 | Many of these references indicate that the process originated in Asia Minor , in particular the region of Phrygia , near zinc ore deposits which are known to have been worked in antiquity . |
13 | The injunction to make a small cross on the table from five breadcrumbs as a sign of devotion links him with a custom known to have been practised in monastic life , linking the daily bread of physical survival with the bread of life broken at the Passion . |
14 | This book was the first natural history book known to have been published in Australia , where the engravings were also done probably by a transported forger . |