Example sentences of "[adv] known [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For she introduced me to a pleasure-land which transcended all hitherto known joys . |
| 2 | Certainly not the assembled princes who had all known Bel Shanaar too long and too well . |
| 3 | But experts warned computer users that Friday 13th viruses are only a tiny proportion of the 30 or so known types of virus which exist , and that they would be wise to keep taking precautions . |
| 4 | It is a not sufficiently known fact that the Victoria and Albert Museum houses one of the the world 's two most significant collection of glass , equal to that of the Corning Museum of Glass , New York State . |
| 5 | If we give to personally known recipients , we experience gratification while they experience obligation . |
| 6 | Many of the younger officers have come straight from training school and have only known Grendon Prison , they slip into the regime quite easily . |
| 7 | He had only known Heather for a few weeks , after all , and may well have been deceived by the impression she had created in Rhodes ' alien environment . |
| 8 | Melissa was about to retort that as she had only known Bonard for three days he could hardly be described as a friend of hers , when a surprised , ‘ Well , what do you know ? ’ from Jack made them both glance round . |
| 9 | By pursuing only known sale opportunities , there is greater chance that the reactive approach will lead an acquiror into a formal sale process , where the vendor has appointed professional advisers to handle the transactions on its behalf . |
| 10 | O. abyssicola closely resembles the holotype and only known specimen of O. granulifera Verrill : both have similarly shaped oral shields and ventral arm plates . |
| 11 | The UDA said it would target only known IRA men . |
| 12 | We had only known Sinar Surya as a lumpish extension of the land — as dependent on it as a baby is on its mother ; now she had come of age as she surged south to a thrilling new rhythm , new smells and new sensations . |
| 13 | It was incredible but true — incredible because she 'd only known Fen for a week — incredible because she 'd begun by disliking him — but true that she was in love with him . |
| 14 | It was soon overtaken by the profounder and better known works of Bonaventure , Albertus Magnus , and Aquinas . |
| 15 | William Gray , junior , the older son , had a nursery garden in Fulham , at Parson 's Lane , later Peterborough Road , but the better known Fulham garden of the period was the one established before 1700 by the elder William Gray and later taken over by Christopher . |
| 16 | He also hopes to climb the better known Vinson ( 17,057 feet ) . |
| 17 | This is not only the most westerly point of the mainland of Scotland but of Britain also , being further west than the better known Land 's End in Cornwall and incomparably finer , quite unspoilt and free of tourist invasions and commercial enterprises . |
| 18 | Several of the works depict the artist 's better known friends , notably the witty charcoal sketch of the top-hatted dandy ‘ Manet at the easel ’ from the Metropolitan . |
| 19 | It was , though , his rather better known colleague at Caltech , Linus Pauling , who proposed that the principle to adopt was that of structures that maximise the number of so-called hydrogen bonds between different amino acids in the polypeptide chain ( and who thereby forged the key which very rapidly unlocked molecular biology ) . |
| 20 | On the same day investors in the somewhat better known Gartmore heard that their fund management group was to be the latest to change hands . |
| 21 | In 1469 , during the reign of James III , Scotland was first described as an ‘ Impyre ’ — sixty-four years before the much better known claim of Henry VIII to the same effect . |
| 22 | On the other hand , better known authors may have specialised sources of information associated with them , such as A D.H . |
| 23 | His career shows many parallels with that of the better known Charles Turner Thackrah , but evidence of association is lacking . |
| 24 | Best known element of this operation is Air Atlantique , operators of a fleet of nine DC-3s and two DC-6s on specialist cargo and charter work anywhere they are required . |
| 25 | One of the best known Classification Societies is Lloyd 's Register of Shipping , based in London . |
| 26 | The best known walking and skiing area in the country is the High Tatras in Slovakia . |
| 27 | Magdalen Tower is probably the best known symbol of Oxford . |
| 28 | A Comedie Franaise actor , he joined the Underground and found his way to London and the B.B.C. to become one of the best known announcers on Les Franais Parient aux Franais , banned by the Nazis but heard throughout France . |
| 29 | One of the best known approaches as to how decisions ought to be made is that of Simon , who developed the behaviour alternative model . |
| 30 | But the plant 's best known activity as a manufacturer of water-cooled mainframes will stay firmly in the IBM fold and notionally expanded as the construction of air-cooled ES/9000s moves from Valencia in Spain , although the rate at which mainframe sales are falling suggests that this will be only a short-term boost . |