Example sentences of "[noun] be know from a " in BNC.

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1 Portraits of the famous Roman emperors are known from a large number of other sources , principally sculpture , but for many of the Hellenistic kings or Roman emperors of the third century AD , coins provide the only portrait evidence .
2 The truth is that there are a few sites ( especially in North America ) where abundant remains of complete animals have been recovered , and from which a passable idea of the fauna of the Mesozoic can be obtained , but there are still great gaps in our knowledge , and many of the dinosaurs are known from a handful of individuals , or even a single specimen .
3 Pemmatites species are known from a number of localities in the Permian and Carboniferous of Europe .
4 Although many kinds of trace fossil are known from a long geological time span , some are confined to the Cambrian and could record extinct body plans , as well as details of early metazoan activities such as locomotion and feeding .
5 The coinage of the Amphictions at Delphi in the late fourth century BC was struck from a quantity of bullion whose approximate size is known from an inscription .
6 Snaffle-bits of two linked iron bars with a small ring at each end are known from a scatter of cemeteries across the country from Lincolnshire to Kent ( Welch 1983 , p. 112 ) .
7 Although there is no independent evidence for the behaviour of Basina , the name Basena is known from a silver ladle , dating perhaps to the sixth century , found at Weimar .
8 The presence of Coal Measures and well-developed coaly intervals on the southern margins of the Southern North Sea Basin is known from an examination of available well data and recently acquired seismic data .
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