Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] known " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is also known for being frugal and will often only serve visiting supporters after running a used teabag three or four times through a mangle . |
| 2 | She is well known in this area . ’ |
| 3 | Mrs Tansley says it is over 58 years since she made her debut in opera and she never did any more , though she is well known in villages in the Guisborough area where her talent has been in demand at concerts . |
| 4 | She is best known for her rings with tall bezels towering above slender hoops . |
| 5 | She is best known for her probable authorship of the anonymous pamphlet An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex ( 1696 ) , frequently ascribed to Mary Astell [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | If one suppresses the name , one does not suppress the rest of what is reported , so it is reported that someone , or perhaps more than one person who has been defamed , has done something in the course of the case and it may be that he or she is not known to the public and is of no interest to the public . |
| 7 | She is not known to have been involved in any way . |
| 8 | Kanga , as she is better known , was an ex-girlfriend and has remained a trusted friend . |
| 9 | She is better known to us of course as Diana Clunt . ’ |
| 10 | Among those present either lunching , or braving the elements to watch the match , or both , were the new Argentine Ambassador Señor Mario Campora , , she is better known as TV sports presenter Sally Jones ; Mr and Mrs Brian Jenks , whom I had enjoyed meeting at Royal Ascot earlier in the week ; , Mr Brian Morrison , he owns the Royal Berkshire Polo ground ; Major Ronald Ferguson , who runs the polo here very efficiently ; . |
| 11 | She is now known as the more successful sister of Margaret Drabble . |
| 12 | It is not known exactly how many people die from hypothermia ( ie die ‘ from cold ’ , because their inner body temperature has become dangerously low ) , but thousands of older people do die each winter from cold-related conditions . |
| 13 | From there she could have travelled to France or Belgium but it is not known whether she boarded a ferry . |
| 14 | It is not known whether all the material will be permanently exhibited , because South Cambridgeshire District is one of the few local authorities in Britain not to have a local museum . |
| 15 | It is not known whether there will be a full archaeological investigation of the entire site , or even of a large part of it ; the excavation ends today . |
| 16 | Only a three-yard stretch of the theatre has been unearthed , and it is not known whether any more will be excavated . |
| 17 | It is not known how many of the people arrested in last Saturday 's protests on the night of East Germany 's 40th anniversary have been freed . |
| 18 | As the suspension of a unit trust over a pricing error is unprecedented , it is not known when units can be traded again . |
| 19 | The police have improved both their procedures and their training , but it is not known whether social attitudes in general have changed greatly . |
| 20 | It is not known who sent the instructions , nor exactly what they were . |
| 21 | Although it is not known when he will be able to return to his £350,000-a-year job , he is expected to lead a normal life within three months . |
| 22 | It is not known who owned the land around Cosmeston before the Normans came to Wales . |
| 23 | It is not known today from the Outer Hebrides , being confined in the British Isles to Skye and Mull . |
| 24 | It is not known who wrote these lines . |
| 25 | It is not known exactly how he was caught , but there are several theories . |
| 26 | It is not known how lithium salts work . |
| 27 | It is not known why this occurs in a few animals after strangles infection . |
| 28 | It is not known if Mrs Thatcher continues to practise this self-denying ordinance . |
| 29 | It is not known whether the original breeding arose from mutation or selection , or , some say , by crossbreeding with perhaps a French breed or the Devon . |
| 30 | Damage was also very great in the mustelid samples , but in the one good sample from the pine marten the bones were less modified than in the canid samples , and it is not known at present which pattern is more typical of mustelids . |