Example sentences of "is [adv] known to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people , indeed , are unwilling to talk of ‘ crime ’ when they discuss breach of pollution regulations : this sort of language is considered appropriate only where clearly blameworthy conduct exists — where there is a calculated breach of regulation , or where the polluting substance concerned is widely known to be dangerous and there was carelessness or recklessness in handling it . |
| 2 | The Crusade successfully united all women to the right of the Christian Democrats , while the Front is unofficially known to be controlled by the ultra-right ARENA Party . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | The cause is only known to mathematicians and philosophers constantly engaged in the study of infinity . |
| 5 | This gas is better known to dental patients as laughing gas , but it is also a mainstay in the operating theatres of many hospitals . |
| 6 | She is better known to us of course as Diana Clunt . ’ |
| 7 | Charles du Bos , the literary critic , another figure who is scarcely known to the younger generation even in his own country , was equally devoted to Eliot . |
| 8 | Even if the information is specific , the insider may deal on the basis of it if the information is generally known to those persons who are accustomed or would be likely to deal in the securities in question . |
| 9 | The risk undertaken is generally known to the surety , and the circumstances generally point to the view that as between the creditor and surety it was contemplated and intended that the surety should take upon himself to ascertain exactly what risk he was taking upon himself . |
| 10 | If we provide information which is already known to the receiver , then we are too long-winded ; if we take knowledge for granted , we are too brief . |
| 11 | The starting point of ( 2c ) , these positions , is already known to the reader because it occurs at the end of sentence ( 1 ) . |
| 12 | ( iv ) DIRPACK1 is already known to LIFESPAN and on active DC 1069 . |
| 13 | The user has attempted to reserve a module name which is already known to LIFESPAN . |
| 14 | The preferred version must be a version of the module which is already known to LIFESPAN . |
| 15 | The unique Client name is already known to LIFESPAN and therefore can not be used for a new Client name . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | His field work has been in the Cycladic and Orkney Islands , and he is best known to the public through appearances on BBC TV 's ‘ Chronicle ’ programme , and for his book Before civilisation ( 1973 ) , which transformed prehistoric chronology by applying the results of Carbon 14 dating . |
| 18 | Hollein is best known to New Yorkers for the townhouse on East 79th Street he renovated in the late Sixties to house Richard Feigen 's gallery ( it 's now the Hanae Mori shop ) . |
| 19 | This little town is best known to the Swiss and to others acquainted with Swiss literature as the " Gotthelf-village " . |
| 20 | This is one of the big three timber importers in the UK , but is best known to the public for its 191 Jewson outlets catering to the small jobbing builder . |
| 21 | A milkman who serves the same customers every day and who is usually known to them personally will clearly have sufficient contact . |
| 22 | Cardinal Hume has not only the cross of being a fervent Newcastle United supporter to bear ; he is also known to irreverent members of Mayfair 's Jesuit Farm Street Church by his initials , George Basil Hume . |
| 23 | The other two departments are concerned that ‘ any information which is publicly available is also known to competitors and is therefore of little use ’ . |
| 24 | HP is also known to be weighing up Microsoft Corp 's NT , and the Apple/IBM Taligent venture . |
| 25 | If the lecturer is also known to be the examiner , he is unlikely to set a question on a topic that he has not covered or referred to in his lectures — although this can not be guaranteed . |
| 26 | The salient differences between these two applications are that in the second case the consultant , though independent of the course team , is known to be supportive and familiar with the background and context of the course under examination ; the quality of the consultant 's judgement is also known to most of the course team . |
| 27 | As indomethacin is also known to be an reactive oxygen species scavenger , however , its effect may be independent of its inhibition of cyclo-oxygenase . |
| 28 | Serum gastrin concentration is also known to be raised in patients with H pylori infection , and this is seen in the non-uraemic patients in the present study . |
| 29 | However , this view is now known to be rather naive . |
| 30 | Individual behaviour , particularly in the insect world , is now known to be regulated by means of molecules known as pheromones , which are possibly analogous to our prostaglandins and hormones . |