Example sentences of "known [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the facts became known through contact established with the Curator of the New Mills Heritage Centre , some action was taken and all Mackie Memorial Library books that could be found in local bookshops were bought back by the Derbyshire authorities . |
| 2 | Some organisations seek to channel the grapevine for productive purposes by producing house magazines which allow issues to be raised publicly which would otherwise only become known through rumour . |
| 3 | Gradually the island became more widely known through picture albums , engravings and travel books . |
| 4 | The Shaw neighbourhood is known for drug-trafficking and prostitution . |
| 5 | It was also during this period that we had the strangest set of photographs taken of us , by Peter Christopherson who worked for a design company , Hipgnosis — whose offices were at the back of our Denmark Street HQ — and who later joined Throbbing Gristle , a band best known for tabloid spreads on their occult practices . |
| 6 | The federal government on Sept. 9 dismissed Peter Uhl , director-general of the Czechoslovak press agency CSTK and known for leftist views ; his replacement , Tomas Kopriva , was a deputy in Klaus 's Civic Democratic Party ( ODS ) . |
| 7 | This tradition happily has been continued by his successors whose duties have included presiding at the Annual General Meeting , an unpredictable , lively affair where it has been known for election to the Board to be determined by the toss of a coin ! |
| 8 | Straight humeral shaft and convex deltoid plane : not known for Graecopithecus but present in Dryopithecus . |
| 9 | The action , brought by Australia 's third largest bank , comes at the end of a year during which Mr Bond — best known for brewing Castlemaine XXXX lager and his 1985 triumph in the America 's Cup yacht challenge — has fought a desperate battle to keep his creditors at bay . |
| 10 | That was an intervention from her conscience but she had never been known for obstinacy in the past , and it was puzzling to account , really , for her awkward persistence about Grace . |
| 11 | This is well known for oxygen , and can be due to a specific cellular orientation , and a spatial orientation of connective tissue of glycoproteins , collagen and other biopolymers . |
| 12 | There are a number of printers with whom MAS has worked already ( some being clients ) who are well known for security printing . |
| 13 | Although partial 16S sequences ( the first 700 bases ) are known for incompatibility bacteria from several insect species , nearly complete sequences have only been published for incompatibility bacteria of the mosquito Culex pipiens and wasps of the genus Nasonia . |
| 14 | However , being known for measurement does not necessarily help when tendering for consultancy work , but given that the reputation of most of our rivals was built on the interpretive reports prepared by companies such as ours , the transition should simply be one of perception . |
| 15 | Although Mr Cross has been making music since the early 80s , he 's best known for Ride Like the Wind and the theme tune to Dudley Moore 's film Arthur . |
| 16 | FISONS , the ailing drugs group best known for asthma and hayfever products Intal and Opticrom , has sold its UK consumer health arm . |
| 17 | Sucralose , developed over 20 years by T&L and its US partner Johnson & Johnson — the pharmaceuticals company best known for Band Aid and baby powder — is expected to be cleared for use by the US Food & Drug Administration this autumn . |
| 18 | Associate producer and star Denis Lawson — best known for Local Hero — said that filming of The Dead of Winter had been postponed and might even be switched from Mull to Denmark , even though the story is set on Mull . |
| 19 | While he 's often only known for number of aces he blasts — 929 so far this year — last night his all-round game was on show and he served only six aces . |
| 20 | Best known for motor insurance , a field in which many — probably most — competitors are losing money , Direct Line has seen improved profits in each of the past four years . |
| 21 | Although best known for motor insurance , Direct Line writes two other classes of insurance : household and creditor . |
| 22 | Afterwards , the New Zealand captain , speaking softly , confessed he was ‘ devastated ’ , while Gooch , not normally known for emotion , seemed more than a little chuffed . |
| 23 | Cockneys are well known for rhyming slang . |
| 24 | If they accept Anthony 's assertion that not enough is known about output measurement in non-business organizations , the conclusion of Drebin et al. |
| 25 | This is never the best solution ; as pointed out above , the centre of the file is the logical position if nothing is known about hit pattern . |
| 26 | Comparatively little is known about memory for complex movements . |
| 27 | Since then so many ethologists have studied these birds that more is known about dominance in hens than in any other species . |
| 28 | She believed in fat babies and at the time I was born , during the war , little was known about nutrition or cholesterol , nor that heart attacks were preventable . |
| 29 | But she thanked the Lord that Reverend Morey had n't become a Governor sooner , for then everyone would have known about Angel , and James 's plump and prissy wife might have discovered her husband had fathered a bastard . |
| 30 | He was quoted as saying that without more being known about assessment in history it was difficult to register the true significance of what was being proposed . |