Example sentences of "be know from the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A number of mollusc-like shells are known from the Cambrian and it is likely that some derive from halkieriid or related scleritomes .
2 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 .
3 A few other fossil species of Rhus are known from the Tertiary rocks .
4 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 .
5 Lifelike representations of Dicerorhinus in the form of bronze wine containers ( zun ) are known from the late Shang but also from as late as the Late Zou-Western Han period dating from the third century B.C. It was the transformation of the environment resulting from the spread of intensive agriculture that caused the rhinoceros , like the elephant , to retreat to the southernmost provinces of China and ultimately to abandon them completely .
6 Others are known from the military vici at Chesterholm , Ribchester and High Rochester .
7 The " barbecoup " , as it came to be known from the social event which preceded it , resulted in a charge of treason against Tohian two months later .
8 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 ) .
9 2600 BC , who is known from the fortunate survival of his Epic .
10 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 .
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