Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] know [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They become schooled in that illogical negativism sometimes known as Logical Positivism , which says that statements about the world are either provable by observation or are capable of being deduced from facts supplied by reason or logic .
2 She heard the front gate squeak open , and as she saw the two young Garda officers look up at the window and come slowly up her path , Kit Hegarty suddenly knew without any doubt what they were coming to tell her .
3 The Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act of 1922 raised duties on foreign goods to the highest level ever known in American history .
4 Recognizing the efficacy of the quality improvement process also known as total quality management , many leading Japanese companies decided to apply the concepts .
5 In 1840 Thomas Wilkins , who was at the time running a successful baking business , took over the mill in the centre of Bourton then known as Lower Valley Water Mills .
6 Lewis Carroll possibly knew of this phrase but , because he refers to the grin outlasting the rest of the body , it is more likely that his real influence was the cheese rather than the swordsman .
7 For instance , if clitorectomy often known as female circumcision — is a ‘ moral ’ requirement to serve male interests , it is nevertheless women who carry out , maintain and insist upon the practice , and it is women who express their moral offence if it is not carried out .
8 Stuart 's coach at Penn State is Barry Gorman well known to Irish League fans during his spell here with Linfield and other clubs .
9 In York , one of the country 's major historic and tourist centres and the city best known to this writer , the visitor 's search for some genuine experience of a better , bygone England will find little reward inside most of the old city 's public houses .
10 A disagreement between the high priest and the royal supervisor of the Temple under Seleucus IV about 180 resulted in an inspection by the Visir Heliodorus , another personality well known from other evidence ( OGIS 247 ) .
11 The company behind the plan , Bybrook Waste and Power formerly known as Urban Waste and Power said that the plant , if granted permission , would be among the best in the world .
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