Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [am/are] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | An area where some phenomena are known to have been faked , where the will to believe among participants may be very strong , and where observation happens under poor conditions , is hardly a promising one for scientists . |
| 2 | But a few giants are known . |
| 3 | Some fragments are known to nearly everyone , but not always who said them and in which play . |
| 4 | The sculptures and inscriptions with which the Romans embellished their cities provide a particularly valuable insight into the purpose of Roman monuments , although only a few sites are known in which buildings , statues and inscriptions survive together . |
| 5 | Sandra , a full-time barrister and a mother of three , says some judges are known to be partial to women in wigs and gowns . |
| 6 | Some banks are known as eligible banks ( see later in the chapter ) and create eligible bank bills , or simply eligible bills . |
| 7 | Some insects are known to show simple forms of learning and memory ( Alloway , 1972 ) . |
| 8 | These questions have not been answered , although some things are known . |
| 9 | If the meanings of these latter concepts are themselves established by definition , it is clear that an infinite regress will result unless the meanings of some terms are known by some other means . |
| 10 | 23 ) ; ( although some examples are known in the western portion of the country , e.g. the mosaic from the site of 13-17 , Berkeley Street , Gloucester ) . |
| 11 | Born in 1903 , a year before Graham Greene , they met only when Orwell was dying ; and only a few letters are known to have passed between them , all composed in polite terms , as if to strangers . |
| 12 | Some drugs are known to cause foetal damage and should not be taken during pregnancy . |
| 13 | Some drugs are known to cause foetal damage and should not be taken during pregnancy . |
| 14 | First , for all the vast span of time of the Triassic , only a few faunas are known ; there must be many others that we do not know about . |
| 15 | Few facts are known about William Smith except that he was bound apprentice to Benjamin Slade in London in 1709 . |
| 16 | As I told Heather — But wait : you should see something that will add piquancy to a bald recital of what few facts are known . ’ |
| 17 | Such products are known by the general term ultramarinos , ‘ from across the ocean ’ , and to emphasise that Mariana herself is also an ultramarina , she is often accompanied in Gironella 's tableaux by tins of sardines . |
| 18 | Two identical strategies using no wealth and involving no risk ( such strategies are known as arbitrage strategies ) should , in equilibrium , generate the same profit , and that profit should be zero . |
| 19 | Such cases are known as fluent restorations . |
| 20 | Such patterns are known as gratings . |
| 21 | No such molecules are known , but Green made a tungsten compound , called bis ( cyclopentadienyl ) tungsten dihydride , that will attach itself to certain hydrocarbons . |
| 22 | The chemicals that make up living things are all based on chains of carbon atoms , with hydrogen atoms attached to them all along the chain — such molecules are known as hydrocarbons . |
| 23 | Such waves are known as swell , and they are often the main waves affecting coasts in the southern oceans , for example South Africa and Australia . |
| 24 | Such guidelines are known as ‘ norms ’ . |
| 25 | Such errors are known as cause-effect inversions . |
| 26 | Such errors are known as regularisation errors . |
| 27 | Such transactions are known in the trade as ‘ buy-in management buyouts ’ or Bimbos . |
| 28 | Such overgrowths are known as blooms ( see p. 117 ) . |
| 29 | Leigh has suggested some refinements to the chronology and the sequence of development ( 1984b ) ; 192 such brooches are known suggesting that the minimum output was a little under two per year . |
| 30 | Such cheques are known as bankers ' drafts . |