Example sentences of "[adv] know [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But experts warned computer users that Friday 13th viruses are only a tiny proportion of the 30 or so known types of virus which exist , and that they would be wise to keep taking precautions . |
| 2 | A Comedie Franaise actor , he joined the Underground and found his way to London and the B.B.C. to become one of the best known announcers on Les Franais Parient aux Franais , banned by the Nazis but heard throughout France . |
| 3 | For those who do n't know it , the Haute Route runs from Chamonix to Zermatt in the Alps and is one of the best known routes in Europe . |
| 4 | One of the best known illustrations of inversion is the model on a Euclidean plane , such as this page , that the French mathematician Henri Poincaré made of the non Euclidean ‘ hyperbolic ’ plane , A Euclidean plane is one that obeys Euclid 's famous fifth postulate : in other words , given a line , and a point not on that line , only one other line in the plane ( a parallel to the first line ) can pass through the point and not meet the given line . |
| 5 | The sight of a Bullied pacific and standard tank bringing the sight and sound of steam back to one of the best known locations in the south was particularly attractive . |
| 6 | That is , the use of the royal prerogative as the legal backing for the management of the public service , the principle that a civil servant is a servant of the Crown and holds office at the pleasure of the Crown is one of the best known principles of constitutional law , hallowed by usage and sanctioned by the courts . |
| 7 | The early part of the band 's career witnessed incredible international success , making them undoubtedly the best known exponents of rockabilly in the world — no mean feat for three guys just out of their teens . |
| 8 | Abu Sueir , was a pleasant station , well-established and well-run by one of the oldest group captains in the RAF , and the adjutant was none other than " Happy " Day or " Wings " Day perhaps one of the best known officers of the pre and postwar RAF , " Happy " was indeed a character much larger than life , and even today when I meet a fellow student from my course in the RAF Club , he related with tears streaming down his cheeks an incident when " Happy " was taking the course on rifle drill . |
| 9 | This phenomenon crossed the Atlantic and reappeared in William Wilson , one of the best known stories of Edgar Allan Poe . |
| 10 | The story of Noah 's ark is one of the best known stories from the first chapters of Genesis . |
| 11 | Many of the best known theorists in social and cultural anthropology have themselves done very little practical field research and their writings often give a quite false impression of the normal tribulations of anthropological practice . |
| 12 | It is also an ideal introduction to the scenery of the region , from tufa mounds and hot pools to the Virginia Falls , possibly the second best known falls in Canada , around which is a 2km portage trail , partly on wooden planks . |
| 13 | Zinc , one of the best known protections against corrosion |
| 14 | It 's bad enough that he should get two things wrong about what is perhaps one of the best known poems in the English language . |
| 15 | The best known supporters of these ideas were members of the Central Committee ( elected in 1990 ) and USSR people 's deputies , Roy Medvedev and Anatoly Denisov and also V I Sevastyanov , Russian people 's deputy and a well known cosmonaut . |
| 16 | So what of Old King Cole , one of the best known characters in all of British literature and one of the best loved in nurseryland for countless generations ? |
| 17 | The Saxon word for DRAGON was ‘ worm ’ , and one of the best known tales of the creature is sourced from fourteenth-century Lambton , a village in England 's north country . |
| 18 | Michell , one of the best known authors on this topic , found on this OS sheet , 34 triads , 5 tetrads and 2 triad/tetrad queries . |
| 19 | The architecture in the background shows some of the best known buildings in Frome . |
| 20 | The Great Tower of Magdalen College has been one of Oxford 's best known sights since the fifteenth century . |
| 21 | Verse 13 must be one of the best known verses in the whole letter . |
| 22 | The three best known examples of this were the sacred bulls : Apis , herald of Ptah at Memphis ; Mnevis , herald of Re at Heliopolis ; and Buchis , herald of Monthu at Armant . |
| 23 | In her study of Lambeth , Cockburn ( 1977 ) provides one of the best known examples of this perspective which assumes that local government is simply one arm of the capitalist state , providing the conditions for continued capital accumulation and the maintenance of social order . |
| 24 | The statutory undertakings discussed above are perhaps the best known examples of the implied terms recognised in the common law and have been codified as such . |
| 25 | For seven years prior to 1961 , twenty-nine electrical corporations , including some of the best known names in the country , such as General Electric and Westinghouse , conspired illegally to fix prices on large , mainly government contracts , so as to avoid competition and hence reap enormous illegal profit ( Geis 1967 ; Smith 1961 ) . |
| 26 | For the first time it includes children 's wear and one of the best known names in British fashion — Hardy Amies , now living in the Cotswolds and still designer to the Queen . |
| 27 | One of the best known names in football has been teaching a group of schoolchildren some of the skills which took him to the top of the game . |
| 28 | Thus both the content and the form of the new eighteenth-century realist novel can be shown as dependent on the already known facts of the increasing social importance of the commercial bourgeoisie . |
| 29 | There are also known differences in the trappability of mammal species , with some species being readily caught in traps and others not , so that the comparative samples obtained by trapping are no more representative than are the predator assemblages . ) |
| 30 | Wilderness Of The Mind — Marc Bolan was compiled by long term fans John Williams and Caron Thomas , and chronicles the more obscure details and little known facts about his life . |