Example sentences of "be know [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investors were reluctant anyway to take major decisions until the Budget details are known and the Chancellor has shown whether growth or control of the borrowing requirement is his top priority . |
| 2 | It has long been known that the activity of these geothermal systems is intermittent , and this is generally attributed to the effect of magmatic intrusions or fault motions . |
| 3 | It has long been known that the chain molecules of many natural and artificial polymers are arranged in a way which is at least partially crystalline . |
| 4 | It has been known since the turn of the century that the primary visual cortex must be retinotopically mapped . |
| 5 | And last Monday Dr Harold Varmus let it be known that the thrill of winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine in the morning was as nothing compared with being at Candlestick Park in the evening to see the Giants take the National League pennant for the first time in 27 years . |
| 6 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 7 | We wish it to be known that the mosquito is no relation to the Gadfly . |
| 8 | Tory party managers are letting it be known that the Commons will rise for the summer recess on 17 July . |
| 9 | The 32 members of the Moores family who still own 100% of Littlewoods , have let it be known that the sale has begun ; the biggest part of the Littlewoods Organisation — mail order catalogues — is on the market , with a reputed price tag in excess ( probably well in excess ) of £350 million . |
| 10 | Since the field of view must be known before the exposure can reasonably be calculated this procedure is called before the best exposure is known . |
| 11 | It was to be known whether the mines " are like to continue as they have been , & whether the Oare is like to continue at the same rate it hath been at , and whether it be of the same goodness as it hath been . " |
| 12 | The South Shropshire coroner , Tony Sibsey , said it would never be known whether the boys had watched the episode of ‘ Neighbours ’ when a young boy got trapped in a trunk trying to hide from his father . |
| 13 | Since Alan McLaren , of Hearts , did likewise in matches against Italy and Malta , there is a temptation to say that it will not be known if the rest of that crop can complete the transition to full international level unless they are given a chance . |
| 14 | Such attributes will certainly be known if the frame is derived from some kind of register , of patients , employees or students , for example . |
| 15 | ( 2 ) The readership of the report must be known if the writing is to be in a style to suit the recipients . |
| 16 | The true extent of the financial damage will only be known when the company announces its year-end results at the end of July . |
| 17 | N may be too large for there to be room for that number of add instructions to be held economically in the store , or the value of N may not be known when the program is being prepared ( for example it might be read in as a piece of data ) . |
| 18 | ‘ The extent of this will not be known until the exercise is completed . |
| 19 | The present number of centenarians will not be known until the publication of the 1991 census . |
| 20 | But if the polls are wrong and it 's a fight to the finish , the verdict may not be known until the West Coast results are in . |
| 21 | ‘ The key would be knowing whether the money would be a one-off , or if continuing funding would enable running costs to be taken care of . |
| 22 | It would be wrong , in my judgment , to order under subsection ( 2 ) the repayment of the price of shares unless it were known that the investor was willing to give up the shares . |
| 23 | It 's known that the Migs approached each other coming out of a loop at a combined speed of about 300 miles per hour , in an area to the north east of the main spectator section at Fairford . |
| 24 | It is known that the reliquary of Saint Winifred was taken away on the wagon that was loaded with timber for Ramsey , but no one has shown how this came about . |
| 25 | It is known that the Lombard King Alboin brought his army and then his people on to the plain in 568 , and that they met with little resistance as the Goths had almost vacated the area by that time . |
| 26 | It is known that the DNA at the dyad has a minor groove at the exposed surface . |
| 27 | It is known that the sea is cruel , but it is also humourless , so few laughs are prompted by this book and after some glum pages it is easy to crave even the schoolboy humour of Stephen Leacock 's skit , Soaked in Seaweed . |
| 28 | It is known that the majority of this population group are women , that the likelihood of receiving supplementary benefit increases with advanced age and that those of the elderly living alone are more likely than married couples to receive this benefit . |
| 29 | It is known that the Museum of Modern Art , which has no accommodation at the moment , has had its eye on the Krymskaya Naberezhnaya location for a long time . |
| 30 | For Diana 's mother , fiercely proud , combative and tough-minded , it was a humiliating and unjust experience , all the more so in retrospect as nowadays it is known that the sex of the baby is determined by the man . |