Example sentences of "known [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the three carriers of hepatitis B surface antigen ( all positive for antibodies to hepatitis B e antigen ) one was a general practitioner 's receptionist and two were nurses , one of whom was known through antenatal screening to be a hepatitis B carrier . |
| 2 | Thus completed theses on Scottish geology are borrowed by BGS through BLDSC as soon as their existence is made known through published sources and informal contacts . |
| 3 | These were the knights of medieval chivalry so well known through courtly fiction , but based upon historical fact . |
| 4 | The raw material came from such sources as Renaissance sketchbooks , engravings and travel guides and was originally limited to Antique works of art known between 1400 and the conquest of Rome by Charles V in 1527 . |
| 5 | I have known between three and four dozen boys and girls sleep in one room . |
| 6 | Of the other candidates , Funar was mayor of Cluj-Napoca where he was known for anti-Hungarian measures [ see p. 38922 ] ; Dragomir had been chosen as NSF candidate on July 25 after Petre Roman , former Prime Minister and leader of the reformist NSF [ see p. 38881 ] had refused to stand for the presidency ; Manzatu , a professor and founder of the Republican Party ( RP ) , was formerly connected with the Ceausescu leadership ; and Druc , formerly Prime Minister of Moldova , campaigned solely on the unification issue . |
| 7 | How long he survived his restoration is not certainly known for Northumbrian regnal tradition retained no memory of Eardwulf 's second reign , but there is a possibility that it lasted some three or four years ( see below , p. 196 ) . |
| 8 | For a third distinct trend in progressive rock we can turn to Pink Floyd , known for avant-garde experiments , often making use of collage , electronics and ‘ freeform ’ techniques . |
| 9 | they , they 've always been known for marvellous skin have n't they , the erm |
| 10 | The total supply of money in circulation can not , however , be measured , because although the value of coins struck is known for individual years , there is no satisfactory way of estimating how long they remained in circulation . |
| 11 | Velocities up to are well out of the range of the rotation velocity ( 250kms -1 ) of the galaxy NGC4258 7 and are much higher than any velocities known for molecular gas in our Galaxy or other galaxies ( for example for H 2 O maser in for CO in the galaxy for OH in the galaxy NGC253 13 ) . |
| 12 | Among the flowers , a tribute from the hospital , to a nurse they 'd known for 5 years who 'll be deeply missed . |
| 13 | Airtours — perhaps best known for cheap Mediterranean holidays — has begun to fly to more upmarket destinations such as Florida , Kenya and the Caribbean . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You may think that there were quite a lot of us , but illegal hare coursers are not well known for verbal or physical reticence . |
| 16 | Maybe this annual event will become as well known for rare and fine records as it is for books . |
| 17 | Crosby in 1981 was a classic example : the voters lost a man they had known for thirty years and they did n't know who to vote for instead . |
| 18 | They were also well known for cricketing flannels and white doeskins , as well as more usual products . |
| 19 | Thomas Telford is better known for such engineering feats as the Menai Suspension Bridge or the Caledonian Canal , or roads and bridges throughout the Highlands . |
| 20 | Alan Wofsy Fine Arts in San Francisco is known for such reprints and is offering an impressive range in 1993 . |
| 21 | Although best known for such delicious things as ‘ Sweet honeysucking bees ’ , his greatest work is to be found in serious madrigals like ‘ All pleasure is of this condition ’ and ‘ Thou art but young ’ . |
| 22 | Wilson , shut up in her own world all winter , was astonished to learn what everyone else in Florence had known for many a month — French troops had poured into Piedmont and 1848 was to be repeated all over again . |
| 23 | Although they have been known for many years their evolutionary position is still hotly debated . |
| 24 | Variants of this reaction have been known for many years . |
| 25 | Variants of this reaction have been known for many years . |
| 26 | FLARES on the Sun have been known for many years to produce powerful bursts of X-rays , gamma-rays and charged particles . |
| 27 | I have known for many years , through long observation , that truth IS stranger than fiction . |
| 28 | Further study is necessarily being completed ; but the evidence of linkage between the simultaneous appearance of climatic phenomena in Kansas , Chad , Bihar and in the south — eastern Pacific Ocean suggests what all geographers have known for many years — that the globe works as one complete system , one vast interactive machine , and that the divisions man has forced upon it are no more than crudely artificial devices for our own intellectual convenience . |
| 29 | It has been known for many years that damage to the left hemisphere is more likely to affect language ability than damage to the right , suggesting that the left hemisphere is very important for language . |
| 30 | For example , it is still commonplace in cartoons to show cavemen and dinosaurs together , despite the fact that it has been known for many years that dinosaurs were extinct long before the evolution of ‘ cavemen ’ . |