Example sentences of "[noun pl] know [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's surprising how little even these country kids know about owls , although they must see or hear them every day . |
| 2 | They enter the environment as mixtures of over 200 different compounds known as congeners . |
| 3 | The embarkation was to take place in the harbour and roads of Cherbourg in 200 oyster ketches known as chasse-mapées . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For instance , genes coding the proteins known as fibrinopeptides change in evolution at a rate that closely approximates the basic mutation rate . |
| 6 | Linkage of the cytoplasmic domain to the cytoskeleton through proteins known as catenins is necessary for cadherin function . |
| 7 | Words themselves can be broken down into the minimal grammatical units known as MORPHEMES ( stems and affixes ) . |
| 8 | It exists in four slightly different forms , all based on a ring-like atomic structure formed by four chemical units known as pyrroles . |
| 9 | The plays they performed enacted the events of the Bible , from Creation to Doomsday , divided into separate units known as pageants . |
| 10 | Routine policing in Easton is the responsibility of the uniform branch , which is divided between organizational units known as sections and the neighbourhood and community relations teams , as well as the plain-clothes units like the CID and CDU ( Crime Detection Unit ) . |
| 11 | It does not , of course , follow that the radiation and extinction of the monophyletic units known as clades do not have deterministic explanations . |
| 12 | Subsequent investigations have led to some revisions of Gilbert 's original findings and it is now thought by some researchers that the laccoliths radiate from central discordant intrusions known as stocks ( Fig. 5.17 ) . |
| 13 | The group of jointed animals known as arthropods includes scorpions and spiders , and almost all of these are venomous . |
| 14 | In fact , it belongs to a group of animals known as goat-antelopes , or Caprinae . |
| 15 | This , too , is a mollusc , closely related to squids and cuttlefish , and together they comprise a group of animals known as cephalopods . |
| 16 | Humans belong to the group of animals known as mammals , which are characterized by the presence of hair , mammary glands and sweat glands , tooth specialization , and the regulation of a constant body temperature . |
| 17 | Libyans knew of civilians imprisoned , officers hanged or shot for voicing opinions contrary to the regime , and they took care not to expose themselves by expressing hostility or opposition in public . |
| 18 | Radiating out from the Temple of the Sun , where the Inca presided , were the ceques , or alignments of shrine sites known as huacas . |
| 19 | In legal terms local government in England outside London is divided into areas known as counties and districts with parishes existing in certain circumstances . |
| 20 | In many animals , including ourselves , the light receptors are not spread uniformly across the retina , but are concentrated in areas known as foveae . |
| 21 | It was in 1989 that Gordon Bell Jr , of the University of Texas in Austin , noticed that around half of the fifty giant aquatic lizards known as mosasaurs showed the remains of healed gashes in their jaws and skulls . |
| 22 | The sultan 's army was supplied with troops by the timarli — the holders of fiefs known as timars . |
| 23 | Evidence from Sweden , one of Europe 's biggest paper manufacturing countries , states that the chlorine used in paper bleaching processes results in by-products known as dioxins , some of the most toxic substances known to mankind , which can migrate into food . |
| 24 | Thus the crop of phytoplankton is low and the characteristic planktonic plants known as desmids are poor in variety . |
| 25 | On its pharyngeal surface it bears lateral sclerotized pieces known as tormae . |
| 26 | Some of the DNA is packaged into a giant chromosome , and some is contained within small packages known as plasmids . |
| 27 | But one important discovery was made at Puerto San Julián : these southern plains were inhabited by enormous nomadic shepherds ( though they herded not sheep but the little wild llamas known as guanacos , and they dressed in their skins ) . |
| 28 | The Tour has long since given up those occasional easy days known as promenades , when the peloton idled along , especially on the Mediterranean coast , as though on a club run . |
| 29 | In recent years the use of CFCs ( a group of gases known as chlorofluorocarbons ) has caused increasing environmental concern . |
| 30 | Not until kings grew weary of perambulating in bad weather over rough countryside from one provincial centre to another were judges appointed to branch out from the royal court on circuits known as eyres , listening to pleas and sorting out local problems . |