Example sentences of "[adv] known [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But experts warned computer users that Friday 13th viruses are only a tiny proportion of the 30 or so known types of virus which exist , and that they would be wise to keep taking precautions . |
| 2 | The form of mental handicap known as ‘ Down 's Syndrome ’ is undoubtedly the best known type of handicap in Britain today . |
| 3 | One of the best known illustrations of inversion is the model on a Euclidean plane , such as this page , that the French mathematician Henri Poincaré made of the non Euclidean ‘ hyperbolic ’ plane , A Euclidean plane is one that obeys Euclid 's famous fifth postulate : in other words , given a line , and a point not on that line , only one other line in the plane ( a parallel to the first line ) can pass through the point and not meet the given line . |
| 4 | So what has brought the best known boxer on the unofficial circuit , the best known bouncer in town , the man who has inspired film scripts and tall tales in the snooker halls , once one of the six people in Britain said to be able to bench-press 500 pounds , what has brought him to the dock in front of Judge Richard Lowry and to the possibility of spending the rest of his life locked up with robbers and rapists ? |
| 5 | Zinc , one of the best known protections against corrosion |
| 6 | Trading in the shares of a target company on the basis of inside information is perhaps the best known form of insider dealing . |
| 7 | Apart from the Pazyryk carpet ( in the Hermitage , Leningrad ) , probably the most important , and certainly the best known specimen in existence is the Ardebil carpet , which is now housed in London 's Victoria and Albert Museum . |
| 8 | The best known aspect of sexism in English is what some feminists have called ‘ he/man ’ language , that is , the generic use of masculine pronouns and the term man ( kind ) . |
| 9 | One of the best known names in football has been teaching a group of schoolchildren some of the skills which took him to the top of the game . |
| 10 | THE DINOSAURS were the product of the now known laws of evolution . |
| 11 | Despite this problem we found only the well known associations between endometriosis and age and parity . |
| 12 | The well known excess of leukaemia began around 1979 , at the same time as the increases found by this study in rural areas far removed from any nuclear installation — but all affected by population mixing associated with the oil industry . |
| 13 | We recently paid a well known converter of diesel engines to Land Rovers and Range Rovers a handsome sum to convert our 1960 Land Rover to a Rover V8 . |
| 14 | It 's one of the well known things about money . |
| 15 | It is surrounded by a high creosoted wooden fence to which are attached glossy placards displaying the names of a well known firm of demolition experts and of the construction company in charge of the future redevelopment work . |
| 16 | For starters , there was Rourke 's well known problem with heroin which had always grated against Morrissey 's concept of the band being vegetarian , celibate and literary . |
| 17 | Reg Dixon , British Gas South Western Operations Director said : ‘ British Gas is a well known supporter of energy efficiency and of protection of the environment . |
| 18 | One of the first cities to set up an Architectural Department in 1938 , an exhibition in May-June 1939 illustrated plans for a redesigned civic centre , with lectures by such well known authorities on town planning as Thomas Sharp , author of Oxford Re-planned , and Clough Williams-Ellis , builder of the Italianate village of Portmeirion in Snowdonia . |
| 19 | Mr. Collins refers us to several well known authorities in support of his propositions . |
| 20 | It seems to me when deciding that case , the court of appeal were as Mr suggests taking a long-term view , I of course bear in mind the well known aphorism of Lord about er what happens in the long term , but er , my own view is , that in fact , a house should not actually be built as an investment at all it is something to live in , to make a home in , it is not something to make money out of , I very much regret the fact that er over recent years that view seems to have become somewhat old fashioned . |
| 21 | The way in which the slogan ‘ Bird Lives ’ spontaneously appeared on New York subway walls following the death of the legendary Charlie Parker is one of the well known stories of jazz . |
| 22 | The answer , I think , goes beyond the well known shortcomings of prison conditions . |
| 23 | Leamington is a well known centre for Acupuncture with one of the country 's leading training colleges . |
| 24 | Today 's well known examples of integration include such industry mammoth 's as Lotus ' 1–2–3 , Jazz and Symphony , Ashton Tate 's Framework , Microsoft 's up and coming Excel together with a host of upstarts like Twin and Integrated 7 from Mosaic . |
| 25 | This view shows the GC starting signal which fortunately survives in a well known collection of railwayana . |
| 26 | On 2 May 1839 Prince wrote to Gould in Australia warning him of Swainson 's impending visit : ‘ Mr. Yarrell has just called and requested me to tell you that Mr Swainson is going to Australia whether to collect or to settle is not known at present but he considered it of importance that you should know it as quickly as possible not that either he or I think it can in any way affect you as you have so good a start and his wonted and well known irregularity of publication will surely militate against him . ’ |
| 27 | Micro-organisms growing in ventilation systems must be carefully controlled , since they are well known causes of ill-health , especially in ‘ sensitive ’ people . |
| 28 | In my view they can not alter the fact that the cause of death was status asthmaticus , a well known complication of asthma and sadly sometimes , as here , fatal . |
| 29 | The well known combination of pork and pineapple has tremendous possibilities but none is better than pineapple grilled or fried with a little butter to serve with bacon and eggs . |
| 30 | Incubations were performed under basal conditions , in the presence of 4 µM forskolin ( a well known stimulator of adenylate cyclase ) used to check if the homogenates retained the ability to respond to stimuli and with a peptic tryptic cotazym digest of bread ( San Pastore ) wheat gliadin ( 50 µg/ml ) ( supplied by Dr M De Vincenzi , Istituto Superiore di Santià , Istituto Sperimentale per la Cerealicoltura , Rome ) . |