Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] know [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are most widely known as company secretaries ( which is the function of roughly 20 per cent of the UK 's chartered secretaries ) . |
| 2 | Few senior ministers are so little known outside Westminster and the City . |
| 3 | Been in combat long enough to know about fall-back positions in case things go wrong . ’ |
| 4 | As a legal category , ‘ international judicial assistance ’ is perhaps better known in countries of the civil law tradition than those of the common law . |
| 5 | By then , not merely was much more known about light , heat , electricity and magnetism , but the knowledge was unified with a powerful theoretical structure , so that while chemistry had seemed the fundamental science to many at the beginning of the century , by the end of it there was little doubt that this position belonged to physics . |
| 6 | The oldest artistic castings so far known in Nigeria were excavated around the beginning of 1960 , on behalf of the Nigerian Department of Antiquities , by Thurstan Shaw at Igbo Ukwu in the south-east . |
| 7 | Lassus 's church music was extremely well known in France where his works were published from 1564 onward by Le Roy and Ballard . |
| 8 | It might be doubted whether Ragnvald 's sons , who were first put forward as Cnut 's opponents at Holy River long ago , would have been sufficiently well known in England for the Chronicle entry to be readily intelligible , but this is not certain , and an annalist naming leaders of large Swedish forces may have thought it obvious that they were Swedes themselves . |
| 9 | I am merely asking for an extension of the logic which is already so well known to Marsham street . |
| 10 | From Aisgill Summit , the railway , the road and the River Eden go hand in hand down Mallerstang , forced into close company by the impending slopes , and almost at once there appears on the right the magnificent spectacle of Hellgill Force where the infant Eden , thus far known as Hell Gill Beck , leaps in a waterfall of 60 feet over a limestone cliff and comes to maturity as the River Eden . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | This passage was already well known to Ash scholars and had been extensively quoted . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You just never knew with Lee . |
| 16 | This is more widely known to geomorphologists by its Germanic corruption , Karst . |
| 17 | Gradually the island became more widely known through picture albums , engravings and travel books . |
| 18 | Similarly , his principle of " concomitant variation " proposed that whatever phenomenon varies whenever another phenomenon varies , is either the cause or the effect of that phenomenon — a principle more familiarly known as correlation . |
| 19 | Shortly after eleven , on that same morning , George Cowley arrived at the neatly maintained country house that belonged to Len Hatch , Chrissie 's father , and a man more familiarly known in Cowley 's circuit as The Hatchet . |
| 20 | He appeared genuinely not to know of Atkins and to be trying to be helpful . |
| 21 | Unfairly , Sandra is still best known in Britain as ‘ Madonna 's best friend ’ , the possible — but in the end rather improbable — lesbian love interest that titillated the tabloids for a while until Maddy moved on to other mock shocks . |
| 22 | Having a sentimental attachment for them , I can not resist mentioning the Cotswold Hills of western England where the formation still quaintly known by William Smith 's original name of the " Inferior Oolite " , reaches what is for us the tremendous thickness of about 100 feet . |
| 23 | Navar Avokea or Navareno Bay erm it 's more , I think it 's more technically known as Avokea See if they 've got a reference to the . |
| 24 | A range of these exist from simple compressed hop pellets to Pre-Isomerised Kettle Extracts , more affectionately known as PIKE . |
| 25 | Wet moorlands — more correctly known as blanket bogs — often vegetated with a heather/cotton grass/cross-leaved heath or purple moor grass/deer sedge plant community , are not usually amenable to agricultural development on a significant scale . |
| 26 | It is still often known as Norfolk reed ; and in contrast to ordinary straw thatch , which has a lifetime of thirty years at most , a well-laid thatch of Norfolk reed may last as long as eighty years . |
| 27 | The Chilcotts were still commonly known as Amossy 's tribe , his shade an ever-present influence upon them . |
| 28 | These tugs built by John Lewis & Sons Ltd. in Aberdeen and more commonly known as water tractors were the first of their kind in Scotland . |
| 29 | A long search ensued for similar formulae in terms of radicals ( that is , formulae involving unc and the coefficients of the given equation ) for the roots of equations of higher degree , but none appeared until the 16th Century when a formula for the cubic was found by the Italian Niccolo Fontana ( more commonly known as Tartaglia , " the stammerer " , because of a speech impediment brought about by injury in childhood ) . |
| 30 | In a statement released on Jan. 6 , leading members of the Medellín drug cartel , known as Los Extraditables , declared that they would take reprisals against the rival Cali cartel , claiming that one of the Cali leaders , Gilberto Orijuela , had hired Luis Meneses — more commonly known as Ariel Otero , the former leader of some of the most powerful right-wing paramilitary organizations in the country — to kill them . |