Example sentences of "be known in [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such oil flowers and their bees are most abundant in neotropical savannas and forests and are known in 79 genera of plants in 10 families . |
| 2 | The quality and quantity of ornament is very similar , and , although the cantharus in the angle and the aquatic scenes adjacent to the design are absent , they are known in other mosaics at Lydney , e.g. a cantharus in the mosaic of room XLI ( Wheeler 1932 , pI . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Sir , as has been known in other cases before you , there have been many |
| 5 | Luminescence has been known in geological materials since 1604 , when the alchemist Cascierolo described light emission from barite . |
| 6 | The famous Marx Brothers ' contract scene in A Night at the Opera ( " The party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the party of the first part " ) exaggerated the worst excesses of legal drafting , but it had some basis in fact . |
| 7 | However , the sex of the fetus will be known in numerous situations of antenatal diagnosis other than for sex-linked diseases , and it now seems that some women seek abortions merely because they are dissatisfied with the sex of the fetus . |
| 8 | Simone 's eyes were sparkling , and Alyssia said frigidly , ‘ I had no idea you were known in this part of the world . ’ |
| 9 | This is known in other mammals including Ring-tailed Lemurs — also to be seen in the Walled Garden . |
| 10 | Yet very little is known in any detail about how these important decisions are made . |
| 11 | The clause in a contract which refers matters to an expert for determination is known in this book as the " expert clause " . |
| 12 | Through Ezra I found what is known in these parts as a ‘ room and kitchen ’ flat . |
| 13 | In our part of Italy , as in every other , there was an information system always in operation : radio popolo , the people 's radio ( what is known in some countries as the grapevine ) . |
| 14 | What these works do , or tend to do , not so much singly , perhaps , as in series , is to set in train through the sheer repetition of their demeaning view of women , for example , or their glamorisation of crime , what is known in behaviouristic terms as a process of conditioning , the ‘ drip-drip ’ effect of popular parlance . |
| 15 | This study also serves to illustrate the very real need for what is known in healing circles as ‘ psychic protection ’ . |
| 16 | Avenida Arriaga was known in former times as the Passéio Público , and there was a tradition of people meeting , talking and walking here . |
| 17 | Little was known in English-speaking countries about the new synthetic drugs ( see Chapter 8 ) discovered in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s . |