Example sentences of "[adv] well know to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is perhaps better known to the local community for her involvement with two Gaelic choirs . |
| 2 | The largest-selling newspapers in Britain are owned by swashbuckling businessmen who do not hesitate to interfere with the editorial content of their papers and whose personal politics are so well known to all their staff that the proprietors can set the political tone of their employees ' work without crude , direct , and explicit interference . |
| 3 | She assumed the air of sang-froid so well known to her acquaintances back in England . |
| 4 | I am merely asking for an extension of the logic which is already so well known to Marsham street . |
| 5 | The propensity of these birds to fly off with any attractive object , is so well known to the natives , that they always search the runs for any small missing article that may have been accidentally dropped in the bush . |
| 6 | Firstly , geography alone means foreign traders are less well known to one another because of the distances involved , e.g. a Brazilian exporter despatching goods to Singapore . |
| 7 | To find an English ancestor it was necessary to go a long way back in Richard 's genealogy — to one of his great-grandmothers , Edith , the wife of King Henry I. This English link , slight as it was , was none the less well known to the men who frequented the princely courts of Europe , for in their world family connection was all-important . |
| 8 | Gassendi 's empiricist views on the derivation of our ideas from sense-experience , on natural philosophy and its foundation in carefully considered observation , and his stress on the explanatory value of Epicurean atomism , were already well known to Hobbes and others when they were formally introduced into England via the publication , in 1654 , of Walter Charleton 's Physiologia Epicuro-gassendo-Charltonia : a Fabrick of Science Natural upon the Hypothesis of Atoms , Founded by Epicurus , Repaired by Petrus Gassendus , Augmented by Walter Charleton . |
| 9 | To complicate matters further Israel was using an intermediary , an Iranian businessman called Manucher Ghorbanifar , who was already well known to American intelligence for having fabricated tales . |
| 10 | This passage was already well known to Ash scholars and had been extensively quoted . |
| 11 | Lovell was a Bristol poet of minor talents whose rich Quaker family had disowned him for his marriage that year to a beautiful actress called Mary Fricker , one of five sisters already well known to Southey . |
| 12 | But you do not call an ecumenical Council and keep it going for four years at vast expense in order principally to repeat what is already well known to be the teaching of the Church . |
| 13 | Already well known to art colleges in this country from his directorship of the Glasgow School of Art between 1980 and 1986 , a period which witnessed the emergence of an exciting new generation of Scottish figurative painters , Professor Jones returns from the United States with an enhanced reputation for public relations and for the support of his students . |
| 14 | The hippocampus was already well known to be a structure which , in humans and non-human mammals alike , was in some way involved with memory . |
| 15 | Most of them dealt with love and passion and violent death , and the subjects were already well known to the crowds from newspaper reports . |
| 16 | The fieldworker , Gary Armstrong , already well known to many core fans prior to the formal start of this research , is collecting data not only on minor and major incidents of violence by fans , but also and as importantly , on the more frequent occasions when the same young men gather simply to enjoy football or one another 's company . |
| 17 | Since this is one aspect of the " ongoing negotiation " and preferences of " newcomers " to the interaction can not be assumed at the outset , the circumstances which will most favour a speedy agreement to use Creole are those where there are few participants — ideally the minimum , two — and these individuals are already well known to each other , and known to favour Creole . |
| 18 | And although the Frankish nation was reasonably well known to the Roman emperors in the fourth century , its origins are equally hidden in myth . |
| 19 | Most of the coastal details of these islands were fairly well known to the hydrographers of both the British and Dutch navies , but little was known about their inland geography . |
| 20 | ‘ There was every reason for me to suspect that the present was just such a case : the medical cause of the death was perfectly well known to the family — indeed I had sent them a copy of the pathologist 's report . |
| 21 | The Orion Quartet , now well known to audiences throughout Northern Ireland for their recitals and evening ‘ Soirees ’ , are delighted to be returning to Bangor with another ‘ MUSIC BOX ’ series featuring guest players from the Ulster Orchestra . |
| 22 | In recent years the evidence for the health benefits of fibre , or ‘ roughage ’ as it used to be called , has grown so strong that it has filtered through from the medical journals and is now well known to the British and American public . |
| 23 | Hand pressure sprayers : Again well known to gardeners these sprayers consist of a rigid plastic or metal container with a screw on or integral hand pump assembly , a spray wand and trigger . |
| 24 | It 's true that extracts such as Phoebe 's ‘ Think not that I love him … ’ from As You Like It ( Act 3 , Scene 5 ) or Viola 's ‘ 1 left no ring with her … ’ from Twelfth Night ( Act 2 , Scene 2 ) may be all too well known to a panel , but I can not agree with an adjudication policy that would ban these pieces from the audition . |
| 25 | The sexual and familial aspects of short-term cohabitation are only too well known to most social workers . |
| 26 | it is very well known to a select few in the very distinguished company who attend the annual dinner of Nottingham University of Mountaineering Club . |