Example sentences of "[pron] are know " in BNC.

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1 We are going to have to choose our bird from a very short list of names , none of whom are known to us , or have any political or ideological weaknesses to play upon . ’
2 Now social workers are hoping to interview all past and present pupils , some of whom are known to have visited the house in Evesham .
3 Because there are no constraints placed upon the timing of the volunteer 's activities in such a time-free environment , these are called free-running experiments and the rhythms measured during them are known as free-running rhythms .
4 They ‘ shared a profoundly similar cultural background ’ and the names of some of them are known .
5 So if some of them are known , you can use the equations to work out some of the others .
6 Well dey are known by dere fruits
7 It is the ‘ underground spring , so to speak ’ of the properties of a thing which are known to us by our senses .
8 Besides the interests in land which are known as estates , and which , when they are present estates , give a right to possession of the land , English law , like other systems , recognizes rights of a more restricted kind .
9 Many of these references indicate that the process originated in Asia Minor , in particular the region of Phrygia , near zinc ore deposits which are known to have been worked in antiquity .
10 The replacement of one S+ centre by isoelectronic carbon leads to two possible rings , which are known as dithiadiazoles .
11 Thus the warming and the movement of water help to give rise to climate , which is immensely complex ; and the day-to-day fluctuations which are known as ‘ weather ’ are extraordinarily difficult to predict in detail , more than a few hours ahead .
12 They may be at risk because of identifiable genetic disorders which are known to be present , or because of the age of the mother .
13 It contains a number of impurities the sum of which are known as water hardness salts .
14 It was the first of a series of compounds which are known as the ‘ tricyclic antidepressants ’ , because their chemical structure contains three rings and distinguishes them from the monoamine oxidase inhibitors .
15 Those essences which are known to stimulate clarity of thought ( rosemary , basil , peppermint ) produced more beta brainwaves indicating a state of mental alertness .
16 The nature of the inhibitory factor or factors in the diabetic serum is not understood , but a likely contender would be lipid peroxides which are known to inhibit prostacyclin production and to be elevated in diabetic plasma .
17 A layer of gases , including those which are known as the greenhouse gases , surrounds the Earth .
18 They comprised two operatic arias sung by the tenor Jean de Reszke , which are known to have been recorded in Paris on 22nd April 1905 .
19 The Dragon Project Trust is currently undertaking ‘ operation Interface ’ on dreamwork at specific sites which are known to have , for example , magnetic or radiation anomalies .
20 Plastics , wood and chlorine are just some of the components of waste which , when burnt , generate compounds called dioxins , extremely toxic substances which are known to cause cancer in animals .
21 Although the benefits of dietary fibre are still in the process of scientific investigation , we want to make sure that you do n't miss out on any of the advantages , both those which are known and those still to be fully revealed .
22 In this connection it is interesting that high temperatures , strong sunlight and certain types of radiation destroy homoeopathic potencies , and that these are agents which are known to destroy long-chain polymers .
23 Of some books which are known from records and letters to have existed , no copies at all are known to have survived .
24 A typical example are musical instruments , in particular lyres , which are known from four burials , Bergh Apton ( Norfolk ) , Morningthorpe ( Norfolk ) the well-furnished barrow burials of Sutton Hoo mound 1 and Taplow ( Bruce-Mitford 1970 ; Lawson 1978 ) .
25 In other words , psychiatrists have used as their analogy disorders such as Huntington 's chorea or Alzheimer 's disease , which are known ( or can be assumed ) to have a discrete organic cause in the nervous system and which are like other infective or degenerative physical diseases , except that they happen to affect the brain .
26 Simple , amusing stories presented in various styles including cartoons , which are known and loved by all children .
27 As schools increase in their heterogeneity , those that serve areas where there is a concentration of disadvantage will watch helpless as the more motivated , more able , more ambitious children move to the favoured schools , leaving them to cope with the rest , and worse , suffer the ignominy of having their results on national tests published , protected only by a general statement from the local authority , indicating ‘ the nature of socio-economic and other influences which are known to affect schools ’ ( Task Group on Assessment and Testing , para 134 ) .
28 It was probably for this reason that we missed some of the more esoteric waders like broad-billed sandpiper and jack snipe which are known to nest in this area .
29 These are the cases which are known to everyone .
30 We thus establish Sylvester 's theorem for the expansion of P(A) , viz. unc where unc The unit rank matrices unc which are known as the constituent matrices of A , have interesting and important properties .
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