Example sentences of "known [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sentences with subjects having definite referents , such as ( 80 ) , assert the definite referent 's having performed the infinitival event based on the fact that perception of this event took place , and , as stated above , this means that the definite referent 's having performed this action must be significant enough to be stated as a fact ( known through the perceptual event having taken place ) . |
| 2 | It is perhaps best known through the smash-hit sixties musical Hair ! |
| 3 | The Christmas dinner ( celebrated by Dickens ) , the Christmas tree ( invented in Germany , but rapidly acclimatised through royal patronage in England ) , the Christmas song — best known through the Germanic Stille Nacht — symbolised at one and the same time the cold of the outside world , the warmth of the family circle within , and the contrast between the two . |
| 4 | No cause is known for the mysterious catastrophe , which is now claiming members of related species . |
| 5 | Tylers have never recognized any union and are well known for the low rates and poor conditions that they impose on their workers . |
| 6 | Since then he has toured and recorded extensively , and is known for the strong blues influence in his ballad and up tempo playing . |
| 7 | It has , overall , captured less big-name , big-salary work than Russell Reynolds , but it has become well known for the efficient and speedy handling of a wide range of assignments within its pioneering structure of speciality divisions . |
| 8 | At the same time , however , the man appointed as Minister , Gabriel Arias Salgado , was a rigid Catholic and well known for the fanatical campaigns against sin and temptation in literature , cinema and theatre that he had master-minded from the Department of Popular Education in the 1940s . |
| 9 | Erskine , long resident in Stockholm , is known for the warm , humane domestic , public and commercial buildings he has designed in Sweden over the past 50 years . |
| 10 | The singer , best known for the classic Great Balls Of Fire , was expected two days ago but was said to be furious at taking second billing in the Giants of Rock 'n' Roll concerts . |
| 11 | This is something we have all known for the past few months . |
| 12 | All I know is what I have known for the past two years : there is no reason at all for the blindness . |
| 13 | It is important for the humanities community to make its requirements known for the national acquisition and provision of dataset services . |
| 14 | He was known for the refined dandyism of his appearance , the flutterings and oscillations of his bearing , his heavy drinking , and his intense shyness . |
| 15 | Columbia , now owned by Japan 's Sony , has become as well known for the high spending of its management team , Peter Guber and Jon Peters , as its films ; Mr Peters has now taken a back seat . |
| 16 | Widely known for the large painted steel sculptures which brighten plazas and lobbies throughout the United States , and for his regular appearances in the New York salerooms , he is surprisingly unfamiliar in a London context and has not been treated to a museum exhibition in this country since the Tate Gallery 's survey of 1962 . |
| 17 | The time necessary to climb to cruising altitude will be known for the particular weight of the aircraft , and in all probability the aircraft will fly along the airways or upper airways , i.e. particular routes under positive air traffic control and substantial radar cover with radio navigation aids deployed along the airways at intervals . |
| 18 | Before M w can be calculated from light scattering measurements , the specific refractive index increment must be known for the particular polymer + solvent system under examination . |
| 19 | In Britain he is best known for the remarkable Byker Wall housing scheme in Newcastle-upon-Tyne . |
| 20 | The artistic reason is that he is old-hat ; Catalans prefer to be known for the airy constructions that are going up for the Olympic Games . |
| 21 | Therefore , though T a is known , J 2 and f are too poorly known for the calculated range of possible values of C to provide a useful constraint on density models . |
| 22 | Best known for the infectious overture , the whole of The Thieving Magpie is vintage Rossini . |
| 23 | In the public sector , sources of money will often be precise and known for the forthcoming year . |
| 24 | They were certainly known during the European markets of the seventeenth century but came into disrepute in England with the collapse of the South Sea Bubble ( see Chapter 1 ) in 1720 . |
| 25 | It is unlikely that many Europeans would have had access to Aristotle 's writings , but the cuckoo 's habits were certainly well enough known during the Middle Ages for them to be mentioned by Chaucer ( in The Parlement of Foules , 1382 ) , and for the term ‘ cuckold ’ — describing a man deceived by his wife — to have passed into the English language . |
| 26 | Little is known about the key processes which fix land values and lead to land valorisation as urban development occurs . |
| 27 | It is hard to reconcile this interpretation with the apparent frugivorous adaptations of Kenyapithecus and the presence in the fauna of at least four other primates ( one other hominoid , one monkey and two small-bodied apes ) , but the interpretation of seasonal forest is consistent with the little that is known about the other afropithecin sites as well . |
| 28 | But not even Michael had known about the other sum — smaller , but just as regular — that Holdfast had dourly diverted to the fighters on his own side of the great divide . |
| 29 | Elsewhere , the relationships are more difficult to define , usually because too little is known about the individual sites ; examples include the extensive industries of Brockley Hill and Mancetter-Hartshill , while Dorchester-on-Thames also lay on the fringes of the kiln area producing Oxford wares . |
| 30 | While much has been written about that industry as a whole , relatively little is known about the individual firms in it . |