Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] is known [conj] " in BNC.

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1 No economic mineralisation is known but several drillholes near Scourie cut massive and disseminated pyrite-pyrrhotite lenses ( MEG 2 ) .
2 It judged the centre , which carries out work on AIDS , infectious disease and transplant research , to be a world-class laboratory and says that it offers unique facilities to researchers in Europe such as a rhesus colony for which the microbiological status is known and typed for major histocompatibility complex , essential for transplantation studies and infectious disease research .
3 For the observer , perhaps real beauty is known when the soul can be recognized in the features of the face , and the form of the body .
4 They differ in that in the case of prepayments the exact amount is known and has been paid although the services have yet to be received whereas in the case of an accrual the service has been received but has not been paid for and we have to estimate the amount due .
5 Causality is here contrasted with indeterminacy : either one pretends that the origin of psychological peculiarities is known and that it has the force of explanation , as in classical psychoanalysis , or one chooses to relinquish this concept and to see identity as a matter of discontinuity and flux .
6 Indeed , the name ‘ St Kilda ’ is something of a mystery , as no saint of that name is known and the name is probably a corruption .
7 The total number of people who specifically have addictive disease is known and the total number of people whose lives are significantly affected by addictive disease of one kind or another in someone else is also unknown but it seems unlikely to be less than 25% of the total population .
8 It is possible to estimate sample sizes required if the tolerable error is known and vice versa ( Yates 1960 ) .
9 The First Labour , the slaying of the Nemean lion , was a common theme for samian potters , but , unusual in Britain , only one example is known and this is by no means certain .
10 It may be measured by dilatometry if the bulk modulus of the containing fluid is known and ultrasonic methods may also be used ( see 5.9 below ) .
11 They will have 17 days between the moment when the last result is known and April 27 , when the new Parliament meets for the first time , to gather sufficient support from MPs from minority parties to form a government .
12 As a mark of recognition , the Royal Warrant is known and respected worldwide , and as such , it is of tremendous value to those companies that proudly display the Royal Crest above their name .
13 Its whole history is known and is a sad example of cupidity overriding respect for beauty and history .
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