Example sentences of "[noun] known to " in BNC.

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1 Her book , ‘ Hands to the Plough ’ added interest to her dynamic speaking as she travelled widely , making the needs and opportunities known to young believers in Canada and the United States .
2 The main reason people have been wearing Adidas Shell-toes and Puma States in the past year or so is because Nike , Adidas , Troop , Converse , British Knights , Travel Fox , Reebok , LA Gear , Hi-Tec , Jordache , etc , are producing some of the silliest , shittiest trainers known to man ( and woman ) .
3 Even during our period a great part of agriculture was conducted in ways which would have been quite familiar a hundred , even two hundred years earlier , which was natural since striking results could still be achieved by generalising the best methods known to pre-industrial farming .
4 The trial of 22 managers of the Thanh Huong perfume factory , charged in connection with the " biggest case of fraud known to date " , involving 153,000 million dong , concluded on Oct. 27 .
5 A battlefield for every devilish emotion known to man .
6 All that was in essence known to HQ 5 Corps was that the greater number of these people were " Cossacks " or " Russians " making up various units who had found themselves in Austria because to a greater or lesser extent they had been associated with the Germans , and had surrendered to the British in the hope that they might thus avoid falling into the hands of the Communists .
7 The salt beds lie beneath the rock known to geologists as Keuper Sandstone , and mining was the early method of extracting it .
8 They moved warily , scuttling forward , overlapping each other , black wraith-like phantoms moving as a single entity , its rhythm known to them as ‘ house-laundering ’ — engaging the enemy at close quarters .
9 However , the form of section 2(2) means that with regard to liability for animals not belonging to a dangerous species the position will be fundamentally the same as at common law , since the damage must be of a kind made likely by the characteristics known to the keeper .
10 The effects of diarrhoeal disease can be conquered with one of the simplest and cheapest natural remedies known to science .
11 Since the survey was based on clients known to agencies during 1984–5 , these findings indicate that the initiators of this ‘ wave ’ of heroin use began using heroin in 1980–81 .
12 The St Louis Globe-Democrat wrote , ‘ Now we have a young swoon actor , the idol of teenagers , caught in a marijuana party — a reefer smoking fest known to the trade as ‘ kicking the gong around ’ . ’
13 The military escort team , commanded by a young corporal known to his friends as ‘ Flat Top ’ , swings into action .
14 Most recently these additions have included deputy heads known to be active in researching and developing study skills and packs of INSET resources concerned with information skills and project work .
15 Spain : Every day nearly 20 Spanish healthcare workers risk infection from personal injuries involving blood known to be infected with hepatitis B
16 It is the earliest signed and dated instrument with a German action known to the author .
17 Er who who the candidates have to er make their candidacy known to , who 's the returning officer and so
18 Reassurance behaviour by touch , caress , mutual clasping , and other tactile means establishes a mutual support between animals known to one another that promotes , on the one hand , confidence in the face of potential antagonists and , on the other , a support that makes aggression unnecessary since simple assertion can maintain an individual 's security .
19 Am I being told that the law of England is so deficient that , if one assaults a person by driving a car at them to the danger of that person 's life or property — whether or not one damages either — that is not a crime known to the common law of England , and would it not attract the most condign penalties ?
20 Duncan took some persuading — £250 and the scrap option on the VW to be exact — but agreed to meet me at Blackberry Hill with his wrecker truck ( there is n't a vehicle known to man he ca n't get hold of ) in two hours .
21 By this time , Joan had married Edward Young , an architect in Lulling known to the Bassetts since childhood , and the young couple had lived in the house ever since .
22 Validation before linking showed that 92% of fatal cancers known to the clinic were also known to the registry .
23 Also , 94% of deaths from cancers known to the registry were known to the clinic .
24 London 's Warburg Institute has just made available on computer its database of the Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture known to the Renaissance .
25 Not given to making the headlines , it has recently attracted attention with the launch of the Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture known to the Renaissance on a computerised database , with Getty support , and an old debate stirred up by an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung which criticised London University 's custodianship of the library and called for its return to Hamburg .
26 With financial help from the J. Paul Getty Trust , the Warburg Institute has put the Census of Antique Art and Architecture known to the Renaissance onto a computerised video database .
27 The independent head or bust is not a sculptural type known to the Greeks ( except in the special case of the Herm , below p. 119 ) ; and the common copying in the Roman period of the heads alone from Greek statues shows a failure of understanding .
28 It is not characteristic of early texts known to be West Midland , such as those of the Katherine Group .
29 He will operate his office upon those lines known to be of greatest assistance to his client .
30 Other countries known to be interested in bioconversion to ethanol include Australia ( cassava ) and New Zealand ( beet ) .
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