Example sentences of "[noun prp] is [adv] known " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some species have been almost exterminated , e.g. Per.sea theobromifolia ( Lauraceae ) , formerly the ‘ mahogany ’ of Ecuador is now known from only 12 trees . |
| 2 | The example of the United States is well known : |
| 3 | DEF is well known to us and would be a different sort of purchaser giving you the German influence . |
| 4 | When or why he was reinstated in Marseilles is not known , but Guntram continued to harass him ; claiming in 585 that he was one of those responsible for the murder of Chilperic , apparently one of the wildest of many such accusations made by the king . |
| 5 | Mr Shrager is better known in the City . |
| 6 | Dr Kim is well known in ecumenical circles for his commitment to justice and peace issues . |
| 7 | Kirchberg is well known locally for its band and throughout the season they stage many concerts ranging from the serene to good old thigh slapping and yodelling nights out . |
| 8 | Mr Chandler is best known for his book ‘ The Visible Hand ’ , published in 1977 , which chronicled the rise of managerial capitalism in America and won him a Pulitzer prize . |
| 9 | As already noted the Car Dike , north of Peterborough is now known not to have been a canal but a Roman catch-water drain . |
| 10 | The cost of such an item in eleventh-century England is not known , but in Normandy in the 1040s it could be £7 . |
| 11 | However , it is as an active patron of architecture that Hope is best known , where he used his immense wealth to provide the tangible realization of his Gothic aspirations . |
| 12 | ‘ The NFU is well known for representing farmers , and it 's necessary for the BHA to be easily understood as representing the hospitality industry in all its forms , ’ he said . |
| 13 | ‘ As Scotland is little known to the greater part of those who may read these observations , it is not superfluous to relate that under the name Aberdeen are comprised two towns standing about a mile distant from each other , but governed , I think , by the same magistrates . ’ |
| 14 | It is surely significant ( both scientifically and economically ) that the great " hard rock " massif of Scotland is now known to be almost entirely surrounded by much later " soft rock " basins . |
| 15 | Exactly what happened between this date and 10 July is not known precisely and it is possible that in addition to the group of six already identified there were other DGSE agents involved . |
| 16 | Spines can restrict the diffusion of Ca 2+ ( ref. 40 ) ; however , whether they do so in LTP is not known . |
| 17 | The flood story in Babylonia is also known from a Sumerian text telling virtually the same tale , though more briefly , and many Sumerian compositions refer to the distant days of the flood or before . |
| 18 | For example , Academician Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar is better known in certain circles as Igor ‘ Obmanilovich ’ Grabar . |
| 19 | A rug made in the Persian town of Kashan is therefore known as a Kashan , and an item woven by the Belouch nomads is called a Belouch . |
| 20 | It is , however , for his accomplished monumental sculpture that William Stanton is best known . |
| 21 | Whether they converted many outside of the city of Rochester is not known or whether a Saxon church stood in Halling at this time . |
| 22 | The number of therapeutic abortions carried out in Northern Ireland is not known because they are contained in figures for gynaecological operations . |
| 23 | CLIFF Burgess of Portchester is best known to Mid-Hants Railway members through his association with the Working Omnibus Museum Project which is creating a vintage bus collection in the former coal yard of Medstead and Four Marks Station . |
| 24 | As their relationship to the USSR is well known , the armed forces tend to attract the more pro-Soviet elements of the population . |
| 25 | The last Viscount Stansgate is better known as what ? |
| 26 | For Norris the provocative sloganistic phrases by which Derrida is best known will make true sense only when restored to the contexts from which they have been taken . |
| 27 | Jupiter is now known to have at least sixteen satellites , though the remainder are much smaller than the Galileans . |
| 28 | Although nitrate pollution of the Broads is well known , recent studies are reported to show that streams in areas such as the Cotswolds are now equally polluted . |
| 29 | Scotland 's Lord Advocate is now known to be taking a personal interest in the case . |
| 30 | The richness and variety of plant life in Teesdale is well known , particularly in the lower-lying areas where some plants common in the south have their northernmost limit . |