Example sentences of "a [adv] known [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably he was his ancestors were from Gascony and came over with William the Conqueror like the name Norman it 's a widely known name in England . |
| 2 | And a little known provision may enable the Environment Secretary to prohibit them from checking water quality altogether . ’ |
| 3 | Ophiocymbium cavernosum is a little known ophiuroid previously only recorded from east of Kerguelen Islands , Southern Ocean , its discovery in the Bay of Biscay marks an exciting extension of range perhaps accountable to the considerable depth at which this species is found . |
| 4 | Ethel Walker ( 1861–1951 ) is a little known artist today but she managed to attain the respect of the art establishment of her time . |
| 5 | Inexperienced investors have often been known to put several thousand pounds into a little known company , on the strength of a five minute telephone conversation . |
| 6 | One dealer was telling a client that only 10,000 shares in a little known company remained on his books . |
| 7 | Thanks to a little known rule , individuals are allowed to ‘ relate back ’ personal pension premiums . |
| 8 | German and British researchers have been drafted in to help their French colleagues achieve the right balance — a little known detail is that Germany was France 's main supplier of manufactured goods before the war , albeit under the guise of French names . |
| 9 | In fact the two-hour film due to be shown on ITV on Saturday April 18 is an extraordinary study of a little known period of T.E . |
| 10 | While many people dabbled , it 's a little known fact even in cave diving circles , that Geoff Yeadon , often diving alone , logged over 18,000 metres of diving looking for the King Pot inlet . |
| 11 | I am happy to reveal here a little known fact about the ‘ Immortal Bard ’ . |
| 12 | That man is Stephan Heitmann , he 's a little known politician from Eastern Germany . |
| 13 | Quando remained a little known cult band in England but aspired to a high degree of success in the New York dance floor market . |
| 14 | It is a generally known fact that here our bow is at a very high tension . |
| 15 | The code contrast here seems to relate to such things as the distinction between talk about action and talk as action , the degree of speaker involvement in , or distance from , a message , whether a statement reflects personal opinion or knowledge , whether it refers to specific instances or has the authority of a generally known fact . |
| 16 | Here he put into practice the ideas of social justice expounded in his book A New View of Society , and became a nationally known figure . |
| 17 | In the selection I was involved in , one prominent candidate — a nationally known figure — suffered from the poor impression his wife gave to some of the selectors . |
| 18 | It had been made by a galactically known artist — an ancient , smelly and mostly blind human living on a renovated asteroid near the Home System where Old Earth still spins . |
| 19 | Arnold Bloxham , a well known hypnotist living in South Wales , had brought out a book in which he discussed how some of his " patients " had been taken back , in their trance , to previous experiences in their life . |
| 20 | Management by objectives is a well known management technique . |
| 21 | HILLSIDE member Denis Nutter , a well known squash coach in the Southport area during the late seventies and early eighties , is the new secretary of the North Region of the Professional Golfers ' Association . |
| 22 | Barbara Allsopp , a well known member of the community at Newhnam on Severn and her husband Alan , both now the centre of a mystery that 's baffling police and friends of the couple . |
| 23 | Bicester is also a well known hunting centre with a hunt dating back to the late 1700s . |
| 24 | Souza , like the murdered leader of the seringueiros rubber-tappers ' union Francisco " Chico " Mendes Filho [ see pp. 36459 ; 37914 ] , was a well known environmentalist who campaigned against the destruction of the rain forest for cattle pasture , and against cattle ranchers who expelled and often killed landless workers who occupied their land . |
| 25 | He sent a postcard to a well known photographer stating : ‘ Your cover shot of me moved me enormously . |
| 26 | A few years after publication I was introduced to a well known photographer at a party . |
| 27 | This time the mechanic in charge , a well known character with a police record , had pushed his luck too far , and several illegal immigrants were found hiding in the covered power boat by our shore controls . |
| 28 | Leamington is a well known centre for Acupuncture with one of the country 's leading training colleges . |
| 29 | Retonio , a well known ventriloquist , has collected an assortment of music boxes , parlour organs , fair-ground organs , automatic violins and other mechanical instruments , the result of touring the fairgrounds of the world . |
| 30 | These machines generally have a well known soil load and the appropriate amount of sanitiser used on a regular basis will give the required degree of protection against bacteria . |