Example sentences of "are know from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few other fossil species of Rhus are known from the Tertiary rocks . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . , |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The greatest number are known from the Midlands and eastern England . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Byzantine vessels in contexts dated to the second half of the sixth century are known from the Isle of Wight ( Arnold 1982a ) . |
| 9 | A number of mollusc-like shells are known from the Cambrian and it is likely that some derive from halkieriid or related scleritomes . |
| 10 | Now , hundreds of Iron Age sites are known from the area and the ‘ way ’ has no direct connection with any of them except by accident . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Examples of such double tidal deltas are known from the Dutch Frisian Islands . |
| 13 | Others are known from the military vici at Chesterholm , Ribchester and High Rochester . |
| 14 | Since other versions of the weeping bitch tale are known from the continent , and France is unquestionably home to the fabliaux , the divergent descent of the known Dame Sirith and the Interludium from an English descendant of a French source — perhaps an Anglo-Norman play text — rather than the one from the other looks most likely . |
| 15 | Cockroaches and dragonflies appeared in the Upper Carboniferous ( 300 m years ago ) , at the same time as the giant clubmosses , ferns and seed ferns ; beetles are known from the Permian , and flies and wasps from the end of the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous when the angiosperms were diverging from their seed-fern ancestors . |
| 16 | The oils are energetically twice as efficient as carbohydrates and , although the bees are highly specialized , flowers very like modern Malpighiaceae , complete with oil glands , are known from the mid-Eocene . |