Example sentences of "[adv] know [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This group , all known to each other , were daily injectors of ‘ speed ’ and made a conscious decision to change to what they thought was a ‘ less dangerous drug ’ . |
| 2 | The nature of Burne-Jones 's aims and predilections in art are well-enough known by this time , and have been defined by himself absolutely fitted to this thought : ‘ I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was , never will be — in a light better than any light that ever shone — in a land no one can define or remember , only desire . ’ |
| 3 | The rights and duties of individuals towards each other are together known as private law which in Anglo-Saxon countries , such as Britain and the United States , tends to derive from custom as incorporated by judges through time in what is known in Britain as the common law . |
| 4 | Stuart Errington was perhaps better known as Chief Executive and Chairman of Mercantile Credit ( and at different periods Chairman of the Finance Houses Association and the Equipment Leasing Association ) , but is now Chairman of the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux . |
| 5 | Traditionally , this cooling requirement has been accomplished using slices of solid carbon dioxide , better known as dry ice . |
| 6 | As Gavyn Davies , who may be better known to some Opposition Members than he is to us , has said , the interesting thing is at how high a proportion of GDP investment has settled , notwithstanding the recession . |
| 7 | Thomas Telford is better known for such engineering feats as the Menai Suspension Bridge or the Caledonian Canal , or roads and bridges throughout the Highlands . |
| 8 | Middlesex Street in London has a very famous market and the street 's better known by this name , what is it ? |
| 9 | She heard the front gate squeak open , and as she saw the two young Garda officers look up at the window and come slowly up her path , Kit Hegarty suddenly knew without any doubt what they were coming to tell her . |
| 10 | Two or three months prior to the Dams Raid , when the new squadron was being formed in the spring of 1943 , ground crew personnel from all over Bomber Command were selected and sent to Scampton , the best men at their respective jobs , for what they only knew at that time was going to be one special operation . |
| 11 | I do not know about that kind of radical suggestion , but the police were very successful last year in closing down four domestic manufacturers of Ecstasy — hence the fact that most of the drug being sold on our streets comes from abroad , some from continental Europe . |
| 12 | With regard to the incident this morning , we do not know at this stage whether the injured man was operating a taxi or not . |
| 13 | But we shall not know for some time yet . |
| 14 | But the people who are running them often do not know of each other 's existence , or if they do , they find it difficult to cooperate with one another . |
| 15 | I repeat what I have said many times : I do not know of any person who pays taxes out of anything other than income . |
| 16 | He felt fairly confident that Nigel Steen , or whoever was mounting the campaign against her , did not know of any tie-up with Charles Paris . |
| 17 | My own society , SOLACE ( Society for the liberation of animals from cruelty and exploitation ) , claims no such thing and I do not know of any society that does . |
| 18 | Constanza agreed with much of what he had to say ; but he did not know of any way of not letting down Anna either . |
| 19 | I do not know of any study of this change which can answer that question in anything like a precise and well-documented fashion . |
| 20 | It was evident that he did not know of any solution . ’ |
| 21 | But Gaily knew that he would not go , not even once , to the club , though he did not know of any reason , beyond a feeling , a shrinking-back from an uncongenial world , a novelty , the element of surprise . |
| 22 | I am not aware of any complaint of professional misconduct or disciplinary proceedings brought or to be brought against me in respect of any practice in a multi-national partnership/recognised body and I do not know of any cause for such proceedings to be brought . |
| 23 | ‘ At least six per cent said they would use the bus less often and I do not know of any business in this town which can afford to throw away six per cent of its income . ’ |
| 24 | I do not know of any recipe . |
| 25 | Sally-Anne did not know of this conversation , of course , and by the next day she was her usual bouncing , energetic self , and it being Monday not only was it wash-day — oh , dear — but summer cleaning also began again , with everything being put back , and the whole place was shining and sweet-smelling , so that , Wednesday having come round , McAllister had sunk down into Dr Neil 's big armchair with a great , ‘ Phew , I 'm glad that 's all over ! ’ amusing Matey , whose soft spot for the girl who seemed to be making Dr Neil more reconciled to his lot grew greater every day . |
| 26 | You already know about Basic Instinct ( Odeon , Leicester Square , from 8 May ) . |
| 27 | ‘ They already know about this guy from the last time . |
| 28 | It does not matter that we already know to some extent what has happened to you . |
| 29 | Many of its contemporaries , such as Coverdale and Swaledale , which never transferred to large-scale factory production , have recently been revived , but Wensleydale is the best known of this group . |
| 30 | Despite this wide canon , she remains best known for one thing — vampires . |