Example sentences of "[noun pl] known [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ancient Chinese believed that the electrical energy of the body flowed in specific channels known as the acupuncture meridians , and charts illustrating these have been known for several thousands of years . |
| 2 | Referring to SPLA dissidents known as the Nasir group [ see pp. 38426 ; 38666 ] , he said that the only towns taken by the government forces were those " which depend on our dissidents … who have defected and chosen the camp of Gen. Bashir " . |
| 3 | This was one of the highest breeding densities known in the British Isles ( Ratcliffe , 1963 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | From the kiln they are laid out and raked on the pressing floor and packed into the tall sacks with Mickey Mouse ears known in the trade as pockets . |
| 6 | At some stage Christian symbols , especially in the form of crosses adorned with elaborate convolutions , began to find their way into the carvings , with a striking similarity to designs known in the Anglo-Saxon monasteries of Northumbria . |
| 7 | Validation before linking showed that 92% of fatal cancers known to the clinic were also known to the registry . |
| 8 | Also , 94% of deaths from cancers known to the registry were known to the clinic . |
| 9 | Bruno was familiar with the collection of texts known as the Corpus Hermeticum , then attributed to an Egyptian philosopher , Hermes Trismegistus . |
| 10 | Partly inspired by a set of texts known as the Hermetic Corpus , the elite magicians of the Renaissance rejected what they saw as stultifying in Aristotelian science : a neglect of the particular for the general and an indifference toward practical application . |
| 11 | Incubation time and concentration of cytokines were chosen according to optimal responses known for the ICAM-1 upregulation on other tumour cell lines . |
| 12 | There were strict controls over the export of capital and the City 's ability to invest abroad ( outside the group of countries known as the Overseas Sterling Area and consisting to a large extent of former members of the Empire ) was restricted . |
| 13 | Taxpayers round the rich world owe thanks to a bunch of 14 mostly-developing countries known as the Cairns group . |
| 14 | One example is a unique zero-point quantum force between closely spaced metal plates known as the Casimir force , which results from unbalanced pressures in the zero-point energy due to the presence of the plates . |
| 15 | His achievement was to draw on these two strains , and on the contemporary Elizabethan taste for the kind of ingenious conceits known at the time as ‘ devices ’ to produce a creative synthesis . |
| 16 | Very characteristic of the side-drum are the strokes known as the ‘ flam ’ and the ‘ drag ’ . |
| 17 | In determining what constitutes a reasonable prospect it is to be assumed that the prospect given by the facts and other matters known to the creditor at the time he entered into the transaction resulting in the debt was a reasonable prospect ( s 271(4) ) . |
| 18 | But all Anselm 's actions , both under Rufus and Henry I , suggest that he thought that too much importance was being attached to the disputed ceremonies , and that the real problems of religious life were at the level of personal attitudes and motives known in the last resort only to God . |
| 19 | In addition , all companies known to the Scottish Council , but whose status as exporters was not clear , were also contacted . |
| 20 | In addition , several hundred companies known to the Scottish Council , but whose status as exporters was not clear , were also contacted . |
| 21 | Each is a member of the group of companies known as the Gomba Group . |
| 22 | The Norton Antivirus can detect all the common viruses in the field , but while version 2.1 might claim to be able to detect all 1,400 viruses known to the NCSA , it still ca n't detect many old , well-known , ‘ laboratory ’ viruses such as Pogue , Starship , Slovakia or Slovakia-2 . |
| 23 | The gardens of Ireland have a special dreamlike quality , like gardens known as a child — where everything was bigger and greener , and chattering rabbits abounded . |
| 24 | But one chromosome may be missing ( this is only known in humans in the form XO ( = Y chromosome missing ) which produces a specific syndrome of sexual and other effects known as the Turner syndrome ) . |
| 25 | Indictable offences known to the police had risen by 69% since 1938 , reaching a total of 478,394 compared with 283,220 in 1938 . |
| 26 | Between 1979 and 1988 the total number of indictable offences known to the police ( ignoring offences of criminal damage of value 20 or less ) increased by just under 50 per cent ( the 1988 total was in fact 4.5 per cent down on the previous year ) . |
| 27 | For one thing , we can only guess at the proportion of actual offences known to the police . |
| 28 | Thus , there should be a sufficient threat if , in the circumstances known to the accused , the threat might ( 1 ) influence the mind of an ordinary person of normal stability and courage ( whether or not it in fact influences the person addressed ) , or ( 2 ) influence the mind of the person addressed , though it would not influence an ordinary person . |
| 29 | A major difficulty is that the inert gases account for only a small fraction of the volatiles known at the surfaces and in the atmospheres of the three planets , where the volatiles almost entirely consist of CO 2 , H 2 O , N 2 and O 2 , or of compounds derived from them such as carbonates , hydroxy-silicates and nitrates . |
| 30 | The last of four man-made causeways known as the Churchill Barriers linking Orkney 's mainland to its scattered and remote south isles . |