Example sentences of "known [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Until 1985 many psychiatrists ensured the supervision in the community of patients who were known to default from treatment by granting them leave of absence .
2 Even Desmond Haynes has been known to succumb to ragging of that ilk , but he surely will have advised his county colleague that there is only one foolproof means of revenge .
3 In addition a future crop substitution programme was expected to be seriously hampered by the July 6 murder of Walter Tocas , the leader of the Upper Huallaga Defence Front , a 150,000-strong organization of coca growers in the country 's principal coca growing region , by either drug traffickers or Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ) guerrillas , who were known to work in tandem in the region .
4 But you can get an idea of what each gene does by comparing the bodies of two organisms known to differ with respect to a certain gene .
5 Today the hunt was for blackberries , which were known to grow in profusion on the high banks of the fields beyond the woods .
6 I admit that I have been known to curse on occasion and I often talk to my machine telling it ‘ You will not beat me so you 'd better start behaving ! ’
7 However , boys will be boys and they enjoyed the fresh air and the sport of fishing , in fact the boys had been known to fish after dark at the newty pond which was very illegal !
8 Keifer Sutherland , son of Donald , managed to steer clear of drugs , ‘ although I have been known to let off steam occasionally , ’ he said .
9 These solitary cobblers are often found under a dock-leaf working merrily on a shoe , although , like their cousins the CLURICAUNS , they can frequent wine cellars and have been known to over-indulge in heather-ale .
10 In CAP , the circled amino-acids are known to interact with DNA in the crystal structure of the CAP/DNA complex , and these have counterparts among the conserved basic residues in GH5 .
11 This is not only simplistic but it is even ignorant of pain-provoking peripheral nerve fibres now known to exist in man .
12 One factor complicating the analysis of ZNF genes in mammals is their remarkably high number ; several hundred are known to exist in man ( 8 ) , and 60-70 of these are expressed in a single cell type ( T cell ; 9 ) .
13 The Revenue have been known to allow in practice the taxpayer to use the Schedule E rules with respect to certain types of benefits , eg loans .
14 In general terms the use of research material in libraries is known to decline with age , but the rate of decline within different disciplines shows considerable variation .
15 CAP is a prokaryotic sequence-specific protein which is known to bind to DNA as a dimer and to induce a bend in DNA .
16 EGF production is known to decrease with age .
17 It might be worth enquiring of other departments whether Simon had ever been known to associate with anarchist groups .
18 Lower seroconversion rates in 9-month-olds than in 6-month-olds could be due to a higher incidence of infections with non-polio enteroviruses or other enteric pathogens , which are known to interfere with antibody responses to OPV .
19 Most of our subjects had long duration disease and their diabetes was tightly controlled — both factors known to interfere with hypoglycaemia awareness .
20 Most of the drugs effective in treating the illness are also known to interfere with dopamine 's action on nerve cells .
21 This control group had no abnormalities known to interfere with serum lipid concentrations , and each patients underwent the same fasting and colonic preparation as the cancer patients .
22 These results appear rather striking since DNAaseI is a bulky enzyme and phosphates alkylated at -39.5 , -38.5 , -37.5 and -36.5 are known to interfere with RNA polymerase binding [ 29,30 ] .
23 Both the pill and injectables are also known to interfere with fertility after people have stopped taking them .
24 In the past , inventors have been known to rush into print with their new discoveries to prevent the military stepping in and classifying it .
25 ( 123 ) Patriotic Englishmen have been known to strike in time of war .
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