Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [am/are] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | The distinctive Fair Isle knitting patterns are known ( and copied ) the world over . |
| 2 | Uranium mines are know to have an increased incidence of lung cancer owing to exposure to radon , but only recently has the importance of radon in the home been acknowledged . |
| 3 | The nephrotoxicity of N-acetyl-5-ASA is therefore of interest , particularly as minor structural changes to the aspirin and phenacetin molecules are known to influence nephrotoxicity . |
| 4 | REACTIVE chlorine compounds are known to cause ozone depletion in the Antarctic stratosphere , but they can be bound into an inactive form through reactions with nitrogen dioxide . |
| 5 | The knowledge structures used to represent the dictionary entries are known as integrated semantic units , or ISUs . |
| 6 | This is why Japanese car factories are known rudely as ‘ transplants ’ : unnatural organs vulnerable to rejection by their new body . |
| 7 | Klein ( 1975a ) has described fossilized carnivore burrows from South Africa , and fossilized rodent burrows are known for hamsters ( Szafer , 1957 ) and pocket mice ( Voorhies , 1974 ) , but in general such discoveries are rare . |
| 8 | Two endothelin receptors are known , the selective receptor ( endothelin-1=endothelin-2>endothelin-3 ) , and the non-selective receptor . |
| 9 | The identity of those at the centre of the row remains a closely guarded secret , but council officers are known to have spoken with management from Wiltshier Northern , the company that built the complex . |
| 10 | While the uncovered debts of the banks in respect of residents ' foreign exchange deposits are known more or less precisely , the amount of the banks ' other uncovered foreign liabilities is a matter of guesswork . |
| 11 | The distribution of porosity is controlled partly by depositional facies and partly by diagenesis , and potential reservoir rocks are known to be developed in each of the carbonate units . |
| 12 | Cumin makes the significant point that employers appoint school leavers to posts before examination results are known in any case . |
| 13 | These tickets were produced en masse , though certain coffin-makers and funeral furnishers are known to have commissioned their own designs , with a central cartouche for the printed or hand-written details announcing the name of the deceased and the place , date and time of the funeral . |
| 14 | Selective adhesion mechanisms are known to be involved in nerve-muscle recognition and control of synaptic development in several vertebrate systems . |
| 15 | This might happen for some clumps of primordial germ cells are known to form intercellular bridges so that they exist as a syncytium ( fused cells , sharing several nuclei ) . |
| 16 | These days they can cost hundreds rather than thousands of pounds , and drug rings are known to be using them . |
| 17 | those with different exercise prices but the same expiry dates are known variously as ‘ money ’ or ‘ vertical ’ or ‘ price ’ spreads ; |
| 18 | those with the same exercise prices but with different expiry dates are known as ‘ time ’ or ‘ horizontal ’ or ‘ calendar ’ spreads ; |
| 19 | Where drug actions are known , they have been found to exert an effect on the body 's metabolic processes — that is , our inner chemical workings — inhibiting or stimulating enzyme function or having an effect on their control mechanisms . |
| 20 | When one or more water molecules are known to be coordinated to a central atom in a complex ion , the system for naming complex ions described above can be used . |
| 21 | The structure of three dithiazole metal complexes are known ; a di-iron compound with only one ligand shows clear signs of intermolecular ( N … |
| 22 | These steeply-inclined belts or zones of earthquake sites are known now to exist all round the Pacific ; they are called Benioff zones , after their discoverer , the seismologist Hugo Benioff . |
| 23 | Editor , — Stress levels are known to be high in women trying to balance their career in medicine with domestic commitments . |
| 24 | the module names are known to LIFESPAN |
| 25 | Orc leaders are known as Boss Orcs , but even Boss Orcs fight amongst themselves to decide which of them is the overall leader . |
| 26 | Although the chemical nature of some of the major cell surface components are known , little detailed information is known about the in vivo organisation of these components on the other cell surface . |
| 27 | A number of other transcription factors are known substrates for the DNA-PK , including Sp1 , Oct-1 , Oct-2 , c-Myc , SRF , c-Fos , p53 and the chicken progesterone receptor ( 3-9 ) . |
| 28 | The fact that many people were buried without durable dress-fasteners may imply that organic materials were often used , either on their own or in conjunction with metal fasteners ; a few bone buttons are known . |
| 29 | Investors were reluctant anyway to take major decisions until the Budget details are known and the Chancellor has shown whether growth or control of the borrowing requirement is his top priority . |
| 30 | Water is absorbed directly through the skin — no adult amphibians are known to drink . |