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

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1 These classes are widely known by the label ‘ comprador ’ though this term has attracted a great deal of criticism .
2 Many are fast-moving and able to avoid trawl nets , but less adept at avoiding penguins and seals ; most of the smaller species are better known from the stomach contents of predators than as independent catches .
3 If z describes market conditions which are only known to the incumbent , then the results above tell us that the entrants gradually get to learn the incumbent 's private information .
4 The next ten years of international arguments about whaling are best known as the period in which many more countries joined or rejoined the IWC , when the Indian Ocean was designated as a whale sanctuary and when the sperm whale was effectively protected after 200 years of exploitation .
5 These developments are best known from the chalkland valleys of Wessex , but they certainly exist elsewhere , although they are poorly recorded , if at all .
6 These extra wires are generally known as the handshake connections and the method with which they control the flow of information is called the protocol .
7 He advises organisations to go for proven and well understood technologies to meet their basic requirements , wherever possible using architectures which are already known within the company — even if different technologies have been implemented on top .
8 They are not known to the rest of the program and they can only be changed from within the procedure or function where they are defined .
9 Any persons whose names are not known to the applicant should be referred to in the application and in the title to the proceedings as " other occupiers " .
10 Actual flight numbers are not known at the time of going to press .
11 And though they are popular with the people of Czechoslovakia they 're little known outside the country .
12 Pennsylvanian Nick de Paul will be forever known as the man who could always catch Severiano Ballesteros out .
13 The cause of the plane crash in the outer Hebrides yesterday which killed the ten-man crew of and R A F Shackleton aircraft , may never be fully known for the plane is too old to be fitted with a black box flight recorder .
14 Since the Koons works did n't conform to the definition of parody that the work parodied has to be either known to the viewer or acknowledged by the parodist the court concluded that Koons simply made the sculptures to make money : ‘ …
15 I mean you could start by saying , ‘ Canborough has , has been well known for the number of grants it gives , you know , as , as the means of saying , ‘ Up to now we 've been the good people . ’
16 Do they happen only on routes which are well known to the driver ?
17 Liquitex are well known throughout the world for their high quality acrylic colours and mediums .
18 Partners and staff are well known in the City , w providers of due diligence work with the major capitalists , with the bankers er with with the merchant bankers and so on and of course our plans for providing us with due diligence work .
19 The front teeth or incisors are shaped so they can cut the smallest blade of grass and are sometimes known as the chopping teeth .
20 Courtney 's accident happened on the very first lap when he was in the lead at Mather 's Cross between Coleraine and Portrush and he was taken to hospital although his injuries were not known at the course .
21 Details of the materials in the chapel were not known at the time the official report into the £60 million blaze was put together .
22 They were thus known by the name of ‘ enabling schemes ’ .
23 each given unit being already known by the receiver , or deriving from a preceding piece of new information .
24 The descriptions are a mixture of quotations from texts which were already known at the time of writing , when Rahewin completed the work of Otto von Freising .
25 Validation before linking showed that 92% of fatal cancers known to the clinic were also known to the registry .
26 They were well known at the Jade Cockatoo , for the seniors at Pinehurst were allowed to have tea in the town now and then .
27 The six people at a corner table were well known to the proprietor , who saw them regularly in the winter months .
28 The curious thing about Dr Dunstaple 's death was that although the harrowing circumstances which had attended it were well known throughout the camp , it was not generally considered that , by dying , the Doctor had lost his argument with McNab .
29 The ease with which this change takes place is probably helped by the acceptability which the Public Health Nurse ( PHN ) enjoys in the community , being well known from the diversity of her role in child welfare visiting , home nursing , clinic , and school nurse .
30 The air raids were commonly known as the Baedeker Raids , after a publishing house that produced travel guides , because the Germans made a sudden switch from bombing major cities , industrial and military targets and bombed cities that did not have anything remotely possible connected with any major war effort .
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