Example sentences of "known from [art] " 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 | Pemmatites species are known from a number of localities in the Permian and Carboniferous of Europe . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Or possibly it was of Norman origin , for it is known from a twelfth-century description of London that bull-baiting was practised by them . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The flood story in Babylonia is also known from a Sumerian text telling virtually the same tale , though more briefly , and many Sumerian compositions refer to the distant days of the flood or before . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The poem stresses throughout the elemental qualities of the landscape and seascape which it describes , leading Eliot to a particularly bare group of rocks which he had known from the sailing days of his childhood . |
| 10 | The Cynosurus cristatus — Centaurea nigra meadow , which is also known from the seaboard of western Scotland . |
| 11 | A few other fossil species of Rhus are known from the Tertiary rocks . |
| 12 | Clearly , the mill must have been rebuilt on a number of occasions , becoming known from the 1850s as Severn Mill . |
| 13 | Roux 's results were published for the first time in 1888 : three years later I tried to repeat this fundamental experiment on another subject and by a somewhat different method , It was known from the cytological researches of the brothers Hertwig and Boveri that the eggs of the common sea urchin are able to stand well all sorts of rough treatment , and that , in particular , when broken into pieces by shaking their fragments , will survive and continue to cleave . |
| 14 | Leeds City , or the Peacocks as they were known from the gold V-shaped band on their blue strip , climbed to a more secure position in mid-table in the months after Chapman took over . |
| 15 | However , it is known from the research into performance indicators that clinical teams with similar levels of resources produce different amounts of services ( Yates & Davidge , 1984 ) . |
| 16 | Fossil owls are known from the Eocene , and some living genera have been identified in Miocene or even Oligocene deposits ( Brodkorb , 1971 ; Walker , in Burton , 1973 ) . |
| 17 | Two species are known from the Westbury fauna , the short-eared owl and the little owl , and many species of owl and diurnal birds of prey are recorded from the late Pleistocene of Britain , including snowy owls and European eagle owls ( Harrison , 1987 ) . |
| 18 | Viverrids and mustelids are known from the Oligocene , and the former are a dominant part of the carnivore fauna from early Miocene deposits in East Africa ( Savage , 1965 ; Andrews et al . , |
| 19 | Some of the thickest sequences of Jurassic-Cretaceous section are known from the Sole P ; t Basin area where up to 6000 ft ( 1830 m ) may be recognised . |
| 20 | They are present in most of the major faunas known from the Middle and Upper Triassic , in land area that now constitute Tanzania , Brazil , Argentina , North America , Britain and Germany ; and whenever they were present they were the most abundant type of land animal . |
| 21 | To find out I looked closely at all the reptile faunas known from the Triassic ; that is , I looked at each separate assemblage of reptiles that was known to live in any one place at any one time . |
| 22 | The most virulent poison known from the animal world comes from the skin of the small , brightly coloured poison-arrow frogs from South American forests ( opposite and below ) . |
| 23 | A better woodsman than he would have known from the absence of game in the ride that the verderers were not far ahead , but the Friar did not read the signs . |
| 24 | The greatest number are known from the Midlands and eastern England . |
| 25 | Examples of a type belonging to a general class of the later sixth and seventh centuries on the Continent , with drop-handles and tripod rings , are known from the Kentish sites of Coombe , Gilton , Faversham , Sarre and Ash . |
| 26 | Byzantine vessels in contexts dated to the second half of the sixth century are known from the Isle of Wight ( Arnold 1982a ) . |
| 27 | They are extinct colonial hemichordates , characterised by some of the most rapid rates of speciation and extinction known from the animal kingdom . |
| 28 | Some pieces , like the hydria acquired by the Second Marquess of Sligo ( lot 22 ) were known from the nineteenth century , as was the Amphiaraos stamnos ( lot 24 ) which appeared in an early drawing by Benndorf published in Berlin in 1833 , after which it disappeared , only to surface again in this collection . |
| 29 | Siliceous spicules of demosponges occur in strata in Iran that may be of Ediacaran age , and claims for Precambrian sponge spicules need re-examination , especially as protistan biomineralization , possibly of silica , is known from the preceding Riphean Period ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 30 | A number of mollusc-like shells are known from the Cambrian and it is likely that some derive from halkieriid or related scleritomes . |