Example sentences of "[be] know [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This could be in his favour , as the penalties for failing to hit the targets at the par-fives are known to all television viewers .
2 No problems are known at this level .
3 It is vital that all external constraints are known at this stage , otherwise all the short-listed options may be for bridges when , for environmental reasons or because of the proximity of an airport , only a tunnel is possible .
4 In all about forty simple geometric mosaics are known in this region .
5 The means by which genes produce their effects are known in some detail .
6 Cumin makes the significant point that employers appoint school leavers to posts before examination results are known in any case .
7 The Doric temple became early popular in the western colonies and many more sets of archaic metopes are known from this area than from the homelands .
8 It had been known for some time that relations between Stephenson and Villa were strained because of the player 's insistence on living in his home-town of Newcastle , and several clubs , keen to secure him , were watching the situation closely .
9 The latter phenomenon has been known for some time , Zwaardemaker recording several ‘ cancelling pairs ’ as far back as 1875 , which included :
10 The powerful hydrogen bonding capacity of fluoride , discussed by John Emsley , has been known for some time , but its potential for interfering with the vitally important hydrogen bonds between biomolecules has only recently begun to receive attention .
11 It has been known for some time that eyes give out bioelectric signals — the retina has a positive charge , the cornea is negative .
12 Segmentation is not an innovation in woodturning , and has been known for some time .
13 It has been known for some time that the majority of fibres from the left and right eyes converge upon single cells in the visual cortex of the cat and monkey ( Hubel and Wiesel , 1967 ) .
14 These letters have been known for some time , as the aggrieved Leone published them in a pamphlet in 1764 .
15 Although the link between social deprivation and road accident casualty rates has been known for some time , the scale of the problem has not been assessed either nationally or locally .
16 Is not the Minister aware that it has been known for some time that four times as many women as men suffer the chronic pain that comes from the loss of movement in and the fracture of hip joints ?
17 The research has been done for some time and the results have been known for some time , yet still the Government do nothing .
18 As members will be aware , the Local Government Regions and Districts have been known for some time , and the areas of the Sheriffdoms were published at the beginning of the year .
19 It has been known for some time that the inactive form of ALDH2 is present in about 50% of Japanese and Chinese and is associated with high acetaldehyde concentrations , an exaggerated flush response to alcohol , and seems to protect against alcoholism .
20 The squinch had been known for some time and was used in Persia , Turkestan , Armenia and Asia Minor .
21 It has been known for some time that versatile plastics could be made from vegetable matter but production costs have been prohibitive .
22 It has been known for some time that the Inland Revenue has been taking a close interest in the marketing practices of livestock farmers in parts of Wales and the West Country .
23 It 's been known for some time that dioxins are created when chlorine is used to make paper white , but in many situations it 's been difficult to find substitutes .
24 The result of the application to the Court of Appeal on 4 November 1991 might have been different if the true position had been known to that court .
25 In that year comparisons of Eliot with Pound were stimulated , and exacerbated , by the publication of what were called the ‘ drafts and transcripts ’ of The Waste Land ; that is to say , the heterogeneous packet of typescripts and manuscripts which Eliot had dumped on Pound in Paris , out of which Pound had helped Eliot to extricate the poem that for forty years had been known under that title .
26 Ideally , the emission rates of pollutants and plume-rise parameters should be known for each hour of the day and day of the year for all sources of pollution .
27 and et all ( 362 , 355 & 359 ; 1993 showed that these organs ( among others ) are sites at which the virus multiplies during the often long latency period in AIDS , but more will have to be known of this process before it can be the basis of a routine assay .
28 The famous Marx Brothers ' contract scene in A Night at the Opera ( " The party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the party of the first part " ) exaggerated the worst excesses of legal drafting , but it had some basis in fact .
29 From this time onwards and for ever , the jealous love of the Lord of hosts ' will be known in this child .
30 The final result of Sugar 's plan to buy out Amstrad for 30p a share will not be known until this morning , but the board has already accepted defeat .
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