Example sentences of "know to [be] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iago continues in other , more familiar postures , professing love to Othello and Desdemona ( III.iii. 119ff. , 136ff. , 196ff. , 213ff. , 218f. , 225 ) and feigning a sympathy for their sufferings which we know to be a covert expression of his gloating : As Cicero said , there is no more flagrant injustice than ‘ that of the hypocrite who , at the very moment when he is most false , makes it his business to appear virtuous ’ . |
| 2 | ( 99 ) … in civil or criminal cases you must not put forward what you know to be a false case . |
| 3 | Nicolas Solvetiov , the second choice , had no known family ties but was known to be a strong party man who toed the line . |
| 4 | Hypoglycaemia , as might be expected , may affect platelet function substantially ( Hutton et al , 1979 ; Hilsted et al , 1980 ) , presumably by stimulating the release of counter-regulatory hormones , particularly adrenaline which is known to be a potent stimulus for platelet aggregation . |
| 5 | Sources close to President North indicate that he is deeply shaken by the arrest of Dr Proctor , who has been a frequent guest at the White House and is known to be a close friend of the Norths , and was godfather to little Joey North and to Ollie Jr . |
| 6 | Long before the sulphonamides were used as medicines , quinine was known to be a specific drug against malaria . |
| 7 | He was known to be a political activist , but as far as we know had no record of violence . |
| 8 | Fortunately , Settis is known to be a good friend of the Museum 's director John Walsh , and is a member of the committee planning for the future of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu after the new museum opens at the Getty Center in west Los Angeles . |
| 9 | It has been a shareholder for a very long time in some private companies and I think we 've become known to be a supportive shareholder . |
| 10 | He was known to be a bad-tempered recluse , avoided by everyone in the area . |
| 11 | However , this concern may not be wholly justified as he has been an active member of the CNAA and is known to be a keen supporter of public sector provision and an advocate of breaking down the barriers between the two sectors of higher education . |
| 12 | The kinetics of the interaction are less well understood and are known to be a complex process . |
| 13 | Long thought to be a mystery , Coade stone is now known to be a ceramic body , and the British Museum research laboratory 's analysis in 1985 showed that it was a form of stoneware so resistant to the weather that it is as precise today as when it was originally made . |
| 14 | ( 3 ) The proposal is a friendly merger with the larger company wishing to acquire the smaller company but there is known to be a difficult minority shareholder in the smaller company holding above 10 per cent of the voting rights ( or able to muster that level of support against the proposal ) which could prevent the larger company implementing the compulsory sale procedures under CA 1985 , s429 . |
| 15 | Human PGA has been known to be a complicated protein polymorphism . |
| 16 | The police raided at 7am , but Tawell had already absconded ; he was later arrested at the Jerusalem coffee house , known to be a favourite haunt . |
| 17 | However , there is evidence to suggest that the volcanic sequence may be thin or absent south of 57° 30'N on the western margin of the Rockall Trough , where there is known to be a block-faulted margin structure . |
| 18 | As indomethacin is also known to be an reactive oxygen species scavenger , however , its effect may be independent of its inhibition of cyclo-oxygenase . |
| 19 | Waiting lists are known to be an inaccurate indicator of need , as many doctors do not refer patients if they know the wait will be long ( this is as true for instance for hearing aids as it is for hip replacements ) . |
| 20 | The authorities ' earlier identification of Lembarek Boumaraaf as the assassin [ see p. 38981 ] was endorsed ; the commission confirmed that he had previously been known to be an Islamist sympathizer , but rejected as improbable the suggestion that he had acted alone . |
| 21 | In all the tRNA Asp variants used in this study the basepair U1-A72 has been exchanged for G1-C72 as U1 is known to be an unfavourable start for the T7 RNA polymerase ( 21 ) . |
| 22 | Whereas if Mary is eight years old and known to be an intrepid skipper , the announcement may be one of a depressingly predictable series . |
| 23 | Even so , the sea is known to be an important habitat supporting in winter flocks of diving ducks , mainly Common Scoter , Eider and Red-breasted Merganser ; grebes , mainly Great Crested and Slavonian ; a few divers and auks , and considerable numbers of gulls . |
| 24 | One of the defences possessed by the manufacturer against the retailer determining the nature of supply is the accurate positioning of products and brands , derived from effective market research , against target market segments known to be an important constituent of the retailer 's customer profile . |
| 25 | Smoking is known to be an important risk factor for development of squamous carcinomas of the oesophagus in the Western world and thus could be a likely candidate for adenocarcinomatous change . |
| 26 | Without Angela Morgan , at least two major clients were in danger of not getting the assiduous service they were paying for , and it would be well worth trying to see if one of them , whom he knew to be a fellow refugee from family life at the weekends , could be found . |
| 27 | If Jennifer continued to ladle the sympathy on Helen– the latter might tactically have brought into the conversation something that she knows to be a vulnerable area for Jennifer . |