Example sentences of "known [to-vb] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first men known to have flouted the taboo were Bob Sheppard and Bill Coleman from California , in 1957 . |
| 2 | It was also the first occasion on which the bishop of Rome is known to have invoked the text of Matthew 16 : 18 to justify his primatial jurisdiction . |
| 3 | At the beginning of the Triassic the dominant land animals were the mammal-like reptiles , the synapsids , although they had already been badly affected by dramatic events at the end of the Permian ; catastrophic events of the kind that are now known to have turned the course of Earth 's history several times . |
| 4 | This research is known to have caused the Commission great concern and the Society has told the Royal Commission that it is determined to deal with the problem . |
| 5 | Alastair Campbell , for example , thought that a verse supposedly from Thord Kolbeinsson 's Eiríksdrápa , which connects Earl Eric of Lade with the battle of Ringmere in 1010 , is a fabrication , and that lines about an attack on Norwich said by the thirteenth-century Knytlinga Saga to be from Ottar the Black 's Knútsdrápa probably came from a different poem on Swegen , who is known to have sacked the town in 1004 . |
| 6 | This is a topic which has been the focus of some scholarly discussion , partly because Leonardo himself is known to have visited the city in 1500 , but mainly because Vasari , in the second edition of the Lives , stated that Giorgione had been greatly impressed by some unspecified works of Leonardo 's which he had seen . |
| 7 | Now social workers are hoping to interview all past and present pupils , some of whom are known to have visited the house in Evesham . |
| 8 | KGB commanders in Leningrad and Sverdlovsk were known to have opposed the coup , and Popov later said that a tip-off from a KGB officer had allowed him and Yuri Luzhkov ( later appointed to the interim economic council — see below ) to escape arrest . |
| 9 | Athelstan is known to have endowed the church with lands following his success against the Scots and Danes at the battle of Brunanburg consequent upon his pilgrimage to the shrine of St John . |
| 10 | It will be easier for my father to change his attitude now that Boz is known to have avenged the family honour . ’ |
| 11 | The man is known to have ordered the taxi from a telephone kiosk between 5am and 6am at the junction of Ryhope Road and Askrigg Avenue in Sunderland on Sunday . |
| 12 | For example , in Zambia in 1964 , the year of independence , only 961 African pupils were known to have passed the School Certificate , the secondary school leaving exam . |
| 13 | She 's also known to have used the names Sarah Collins and Sarah Cohen . |
| 14 | The town , known to have had the status of a vicus , is surrounded on all sides by numerous kiln sites and workshops which are everywhere interspersed with agricultural features and a number of substantial extra-mural houses or villas . |