Example sentences of "[pers pn] are [adv] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of them are well known , such as Edinburgh Castle and Stirling Castle , but we have to ensure that people are aware that some of the lesser-known sites they visit are in the care of Historic Scotland , and that they realise many more are on offer , ’ says Bill . |
| 2 | That sort of system is not so easy for actors looking for their first job but easier when you are well known . |
| 3 | But if you are well known , it seems foolish to pretend otherwise . |
| 4 | Could you know anything without first presupposing that you are there to know it and that there is something there to be known ? |
| 5 | What was intriguing was that after the gentleman in question had filled in his first , second and third name there was room on the form , if he felt so inclined , to tell us the ‘ forename or nickname by which you are popularly known ’ . |
| 6 | So we are both known as ‘ kiwis ’ . |
| 7 | The detachment is part of 321 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company whose task , in Northern Ireland , of neutralising terrorist bombs ( IEDs ) or Improvised Explosive Devices , as they are officially known ) has earned them worldwide respect . |
| 8 | These Mamluk carpets , as they are generally known , are essentially geometric in design , but are often intricately decorated with meticulous infill patterning . |
| 9 | There are a number of theories that discuss this relationship and they are generally known as ‘ style theories of leadership ’ where the focus is upon the style that a leader adopts in dealing with others . |
| 10 | Although they are little known and infrequently seen , they are enormously abundant . |
| 11 | They are well known in the Weald of Kent and Sussex and around Poole harbour ; and one land-drainage contractor was of the opinion in 1986 that in his own county , Northamptonshire , there was scarcely a parish without areas which were effectively undrainable due to ochre . |
| 12 | Many poisonous garden plants are familiar ; like the Christmas trio of holly , ivy and mistletoe , they are well known by their common names . |
| 13 | Micro-organisms growing in ventilation systems must be carefully controlled , since they are well known causes of ill-health , especially in ‘ sensitive ’ people . |
| 14 | They are well known for their methodological rigour , and they study factors relating to depression of clinical significance , that is , their cases have symptoms at least as numerous and severe as those treated by psychiatrists in out-patient settings . |
| 15 | Now after five albums and two TV series they are well known to thousands of children throughout Britain , and their songbooks have become standard music-lesson texts in schools in Scotland . |
| 16 | They are best known for their pantomimes and comedy and felt the need for a change . |
| 17 | Tommy and Bren , as they are affectionately known , are now in their 80's ( as indeed are most members of the WHAM choral group ) and are probably best remembered for their haunting rendering of songs such as ‘ Roamin' in the Grogan ’ , ‘ Old Mother Hibbard ’ and ‘ Annie , Get Your Pistoll ’ during their teenage years with WHOOPS ( Wichita , Home Of Other People 's Songs ) . |
| 18 | They are also known as tax havens , a term that the centres themselves do not readily answer to for fear of exciting too much emotive attention . |
| 19 | These people do all that , but they are also known to plant fire bombs and rough people up who work in laboratories where animals are used for experiments . |
| 20 | Since words in the closed class have a syntactic rather than a semantic role in utterances they are also known as function words . |
| 21 | Very similar deposits are known in Greenland , which might be expected from drifting arguments , but they are also known in other parts of Europe and as far away as Brazil , China and Australia . |
| 22 | Most are found associated with forts or their vici , such as Lancaster , Binchester , Lanchester , Housesteads , Risingham , Chesterholm and Greta Bridge , but they are also known from the civitas capitals of Wroxeter and Winchester and the small towns of Dorchester and Catterick ; it is possible , though , that the latter were present when Catterick was still a military vicus , since one of the inscriptions is dated to AD 191 . |
| 23 | They are also known as atomic or network crystals . |
| 24 | They are also known as ‘ Right Honourable ’ . |
| 25 | The 20 percenters , as they are colloquially known , receive benefits which more than compensate this year for their 20 per cent . |
| 26 | They are jointly known as financial intermediaries . |
| 27 | Because these writers have tried to combine an understanding of two systems , those of patriarchy and capitalism , they are sometimes known as dualists . |
| 28 | Periodicals ( or serials as they are sometimes known ) are listed alphabetically by the title as it appears on the title page of the periodical . |
| 29 | Together with ants , they are collectively known as the Hymenoptera , and they occur throughout the world ; some bumblebees even inhabit the high Arctic region . |
| 30 | They are collectively known as cyclostomes ( round-mouths ) . |