StringNet search result

Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [be] [adv] [adv] known " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	It was hard for me to leave Spain , where I was very well known and settle in Palm Springs , California , ’ says Jose Higueras , a former Davis Cup player for Spain from 1974 to 1980 .
2	The salesperson should open with a smile , a handshake and , in situations where he or she is not well known to the buyer , introduce himself and the company he represents .
3	But where it is n't well known is the people who ought to know , and that 's the pensioners , you know th perhaps er your er parents , people er older than yourselves who are drawing state pension , and er the advertising seems to have gone astray .
4	This particular film has quite a strong political statement to make , which is something that I 'm not really known for .
5	There are a number of foreign painters resident in the island , although none is internationally well known .
6	The fact that none are so far known in the vicinity of Jelling itself seems to support this idea .
7	Having had the pleasure of meeting Willy De Roos several years ago he made a great impression on me and although little is publicised about his achievements , it is a shame that they are not better known .
8	County council chiefs believe the project is important both locally and nationally — and propose the authority gives ‘ substantial funds ’ to help , although it is not yet known how much .
9	Although it is not yet known if the H2T cell line expresses TGF α , these findings go some way to support the hypothesis proposed by Korc and others that TGF α may have a role as an autocrine growth stimulator in pancreatic cancer .
10	Bryan Adams has a tremendous knack of writing very catchy and memorable guitar parts , and although he 's not particularly known as a lead soloist his rhythm playing approach is well worth looking at .
11	Chairman , er if I might I was going to refer again to the care carefully worded recommendation which does n't actually mention the level of erm it simply mentions erm er a modest extent of under provision because clearly it says elsewhere in the report at two ten that it 's not yet known whether there will be opportunities elsewhere , so that 's a particular shortfall in provision to be made up .
12	BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE is leaving the restaurant , I ask him whether he feels that he 's now best known in Britain for chasing chickens .
13	Ellie , a silent watcher , and still hurting from all the accusations being hurled around upstairs , and who was n't exactly known for her commanding presence , took one look at Terry 's tear-stained face , and offered quietly , ‘ Will you let me have a look ? ’
14	Trials of this kind were not uncommon in ancient times , and they are also well known from Africa and India .
15	His coaching had been minimal , but all his strokes came from the textbook and he was never once known to play across the line .
16	The relationship between citation and use is particularly complicated , and it is not yet known what factors determine which items in a collection will be read or cited and the relative importance of age among them .
17	So we 're talking about the seventeen hundred , eighteen hundred , and it was very often known as a national song , and we had a national song , probably before any other country .
18	As ever these will be the children from advantaged homes , middle class and what was once patronis-ingly known as ‘ the respectable working classes ’ .
19	There are a number of examples of effective group and cooperative production organisations in rural Europe , but they are not well known , and are often isolated experiments whose replication has not been attempted or has failed .
20	It was Thomas Paine who is said to have suggested United States of America as the name for the new country but he is perhaps best known for abolishing slavery in Pennsylvania 1780 and for his important written works including ‘ The Rights of Man ’ .
21	Professor Laurence Learner is an English scholar at the university , but he 's also well known for his verse , and it 's about his verse I want to talk to him today .
22	But he 's still mainly known either for having had Grace in his face a few years back , or as the third meatboy in line after Stallone and Scharzenegger ; one of that strange Eighties breed of actors who can manage all kinds of complicated weapons , but have trouble with lines of dialogue longer than ten words .
23	But it is also well known that the so-called expert witness in court may be a hired gun , willing to testify to anything for a fee , or a crackpot whose unsupportable ideas are masked by an advanced degree — often from a respectable university .
24	Easily Accessible : Banbury lies on the edge of the Cotswolds and is therefore ideally situated for walking , but it is probably best known for both the nursery rhyme ‘ Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross , To see a fine lady , upon a white horse ’ and for its special cakes made from a 300-year old recipe .
25	A Court of Protection exists to defend elderly or mentally incapacitated people , but it is not widely known .
26	But it is not yet known whether the teenager is returning to her mother or remaining with her 18-year-old boyfriend 's family .
27	Its site was evidently occupied beforehand — the outer walls near the main entrance in the eastern corner extend across the remains of earlier houses — but it is not yet known whether a temple stood there .
28	For example , I have not tried to find forty or so drawings which belonged to him — and which will , therefore , not be illustrated in my book — because they are already well known and have been published elsewhere .
29	Now I 'd not seen his work before , that 's partly because I 'm in Brighton and not in London and do n't get up that often perhaps , but he has hardly shown in England , whereas he 's very well known in Europe , using Europe for the Continent .
30	While he 's often only known for number of aces he blasts — 929 so far this year — last night his all-round game was on show and he served only six aces .