Example sentences of "known [prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the three carriers of hepatitis B surface antigen ( all positive for antibodies to hepatitis B e antigen ) one was a general practitioner 's receptionist and two were nurses , one of whom was known through antenatal screening to be a hepatitis B carrier . |
| 2 | Velocities up to are well out of the range of the rotation velocity ( 250kms -1 ) of the galaxy NGC4258 7 and are much higher than any velocities known for molecular gas in our Galaxy or other galaxies ( for example for H 2 O maser in for CO in the galaxy for OH in the galaxy NGC253 13 ) . |
| 3 | Ideally , the emission rates of pollutants and plume-rise parameters should be known for each hour of the day and day of the year for all sources of pollution . |
| 4 | What changed all that was a book Suffer Little Children by a St Andrews doctor , David Reid , who runs his own Medical Institute for Research into Child Cruelty from his home and is known for controversial views on the causes of child abuse . |
| 5 | Dr David Reid : known for controversial views on abuse |
| 6 | With astonishing speed prime spots in streets known for fashionable shopping before the second world war are being snapped up . |
| 7 | A post as professor — known for historical reasons as a ‘ chair ’ — may be established or personal . |
| 8 | Doctors had known for 50 years about an enzyme that could dissolve the ligament without cutting . |
| 9 | As the official investigation got under way , there were allegations that senior US officials had known for some time of BNL 's dealings with Iraq . |
| 10 | I am delighted to have heard anything worthwhile by Schillings , whose music I have known for some time in piano-vocal scores but have not encountered in performance . |
| 11 | The Carter boy , Jonathan , known for some reason as Floss , took to spending long hours by the pool in a barely concealed state of voyeuristic arousal . |
| 12 | It was possible to establish plausible relationships between what is known about normal language acquisition , especially learning to read , and what is known about developmental disorders of language , especially developmental dyslexia . |
| 13 | Little is known about chronic constipation in infants , toddlers , and preschool children and longterm outcome after treatment . |
| 14 | By looking at the present distribution of animals and plants , and by comparing this with what was known about geological changes in the past , the evolutionist could seek to explain how the populations of the earth 's various regions had been built up through successive migrations . |
| 15 | A great deal is now known about such signals in a wide range of animals , from crabs and spiders to monkeys and humans . |
| 16 | Until recently , infertility was regarded as a problem for women , and hardly anything was known about reproductive problems in men . |
| 17 | But I say , it should 've been it should 've been all d I mean everybody 's known about this chiller for a long while and it 's as I say , I mean when was here it was costing a thousand pound a time . |
| 18 | And then crossed out ‘ dumb ’ and inserted ‘ sweet ’ because it occurred to her that Mrs Rundle might have known about this affliction from the lawyers but had not been able to find the words to tell the children about it . |
| 19 | Little is known about neural correlates of this model of verbal short-term memory . |
| 20 | In reporting what little was known about these discussions at the time , the Economist warned of ‘ the danger that some as yet unknown army officer , drumming his fingers in some provincial headquarters , will decide that enough is enough ’ ( 1 June 1968 ) . |
| 21 | Nevertheless physicists have known about these effects for a long time ; indeed , measurements of splitting using radio frequency techniques ( with correspondingly low-energy photons ) provided the first direct evidence of non-spherical nuclei . |
| 22 | Constipation represents a common problem in children , accounting for 3% of visits to the Pediatric Outpatient Clinic at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics as well as to a large general paediatric clinic in Boston , but little is known about longterm outcome in young children . |
| 23 | In the case of transport planning — for example the location of a third London airport planners used a technique known as cost-benefit analysis in order to establish the costs and benefits of each option . |
| 24 | ‘ No-till ’ farming ( known as minimum cultivation in Britain ) , for example , relies on heavy use of herbicides instead of annual tilling . |
| 25 | Syphilis of the brain tissue leads to progressive neurological deterioration known as general paralysis of the insane ( GPI ) . |
| 26 | However , probably the two most frequently cited and successful model approaches since the 1980s have been the study of the cellular correlates of short-term learning and analogous processes in the sea slug Aplysia and the phenomenon known as long-term potentiation in that sea-horse within the mammalian brain , the hippocampus . |
| 27 | Formerly known as managing clerks , this body of employees has been known as legal executives since 1963 when the Institute of Legal Executives was established . |
| 28 | If the thresholds from logogen system to cognitive system were sometimes or always lower than the thresholds from logogen system to cognitive system , one could then explain subception ( gaining access to the meaning of a word without being able to report the word ) and also semantic errors which occur in the condition known as deep dyslexia in which single printed words are often incorrectly read as semantically related words , e.g. reading storm as thunder . |
| 29 | The entries in the lexicon do not actually contain semantic information , but have instead pointers to locations in a separate store known as semantic memory in which the meanings are held . |
| 30 | Responsibility for drafting the Bill is with the Parliamentary Draftsmen , officially known as Parliamentary Counsel to the Treasury . |