Example sentences of "is know to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At no point on its way to Woodstock is it followed by a boundary that is known to be ancient . |
| 2 | To the extent that professional indemnity insurance is known to be available there is , in fact , an encouragement to litigate . |
| 3 | At best , his work is defined by what is known to be available as source material . |
| 4 | Dr de Klerk , who has acted as an adviser to the anti-apartheid Democratic Party , is known to be close to his brother , but politics is rarely on the agenda when they meet . |
| 5 | The salient differences between these two applications are that in the second case the consultant , though independent of the course team , is known to be supportive and familiar with the background and context of the course under examination ; the quality of the consultant 's judgement is also known to most of the course team . |
| 6 | The Ceasg is known to be dangerous and will swallow a man whole , possibly in memory of a fish-tailed god to whom human sacrifices were made . |
| 7 | Is a clause which is known to be unenforceable in certain circumstances an unreasonable one ? |
| 8 | Yet if the example is modified a little , so that the overtaking is on a country road at night and the risk is known to be slight , it becomes questionable whether the causing of death in these circumstances should be labelled in the same way as intentional killings . |
| 9 | The efficacy of speed limits thus depends on drivers ' self-discipline , but this is known to be lax , particularly as modern cars are neither designed nor advertised to encourage low-speed driving . |
| 10 | There our friends and relatives sometimes come to visit us and speak resolutely of trivial matters ; children seldom come , because that might seem ‘ morbid ’ , especially if the illness is known to be terminal . |
| 11 | Di is known to be bored by the riding-shooting-fishing routine which the Royals love on their Scottish holiday . |
| 12 | For example , the regional distribution of residential and foster care services in the United Kingdom is known to be uneven with some local authorities using EBD schools and residential care far more frequently than others ( Fuller and Stevenson , 1983 ) . |
| 13 | The ballet is known to be fictional . |
| 14 | However where demand is known to be variable , for example if a large share of output is exported , any major internal expansion carries the danger of periodic over-capacity with consequent higher average costs just as the market is weakest . |
| 15 | If the student is known to be competent at planning , and it is the details of execution we are to teach , then a double objective would be acceptable . |
| 16 | If , for example , a GEMM has acquired an unusually large amount of a particular stock and is known to be keen to sell , other market makers may cut dealing prices ; conversely , if a GEMM is known to want to buy large amounts of stock , other market makers may raise prices . |
| 17 | The Terry 's cash would be very useful to UB , which is chaired by Bob Clarke , who is known to be keen to cut the group 's high gearing — debt amounted to about £540 million at the last count — and pave the way for even more expansion . |
| 18 | The monoclonal antibody that did not cross react with these non-toxic cereals , did not recognise Frazer 's fraction III , a peptic-tryptic digest of wheat gluten which is known to be toxic . |
| 19 | If we include here that part of the Dalradian succession which is known to be Cambrian in age , then there would be an ocean of unknown width lost in the space now occupied by the Southern Uplands of Scotland . |
| 20 | It is precisely this that makes me very suspicious of searching for some supposed rational parliamentary intention outside the language in which a draftsman who is known to be rational has chosen to express it . |
| 21 | Such a survival is very important , for while we may be largely ignorant of the details of land travel , the role of ships in transporting men and goods across the waters to England is known to be great . |
| 22 | Movement in such species is known to be due to turgor changes in the specialised hinge-like regions of the leaf , known as pulvini . |
| 23 | Whooping cough vaccine is known to be effective in preventing the illness ( or at least lessening its effects ) in an individual . |
| 24 | In many societies this office confers status : though not necessarily ( if the doctor is known to be guilty of malpractices , for example ) . |
| 25 | A substantial minority of shareholders is known to be opposed to a sale , feeling the company is worth at least £200 million . |
| 26 | At the time of the investigation , 300 cases were still in hospital and it is not known how many will later develop cirrhosis of the liver , to which veno-occlusive disease is known to be contributory factor . |
| 27 | USL , which is known to be interested in porting the desktop Unix to as many volume architectures as possible ( UX No 377 ) , says it is progressing its talks with HP and IBM to gain their cooperation in moving Destiny to their architectures . |
| 28 | In bites and stings if the creature is known to be poisonous or the person is known to react badly to such bites or stings . |
| 29 | To repeat what is known to be shared knowledge , ‘ things as they were before ’ , flouts Grice 's maxim of quantity . |
| 30 | ‘ Actually , ’ Doone said calmly , ‘ he is known to be able to drive his father 's jeep on the Downs expertly , and my men have discovered he was out of school last Wednesday afternoon on a field trip to Windsor Safari Park . |