Example sentences of "[is] [adv] know " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | In 1981–87 , there was a continuing process of national job loss ( Figure 5.4A ; this period of decline is little known because of delays in the availability of the data that are considered here ) . |
| 32 | ‘ As Scotland is little known to the greater part of those who may read these observations , it is not superfluous to relate that under the name Aberdeen are comprised two towns standing about a mile distant from each other , but governed , I think , by the same magistrates . ’ |
| 33 | Although Bain is little known outside a small circle of science historians , his inventions were myriad . |
| 34 | As Medau is little known yet in Hants and West Sussex , it was publicised as an ‘ Open Rally ’ for anyone interested in movement to come and see for themselves . |
| 35 | It 's widely known — because the unions have publicized it — that the Department is looking at bailing out Huerter Textiles . |
| 36 | Clifford Geertz 's widely known article on ‘ Deep Play : Notes on the Balinese Cockfight ’ which is both an account of the way cockfighting may be seen as a symbolically charged text acting as a ‘ carefully prepared ’ expression of Balinese life and an account of the processes by which Geertz becomes a knowing reader of this text , is a prime example of the way thick description works . |
| 37 | It is of flamboyant design , and is locally known as Wainhouse Tower . |
| 38 | The town also boasts , in its main street , a remarkable seventeenth-century mansion , the Freuler Mansion or Palace as it is locally known , built for a local man who acquired riches in the service of the French crown as a colonel of mercenaries ( a not uncommon employment for the Swiss in those days ) . |
| 39 | 30 years on , Hay is justifiably known as ’ The Town of Books , ’ with 25 bookshops competing for business from one million visitors a year . |
| 40 | What you have made is one of the very simplest double bed slip patterns , which is confusingly known as ‘ Pin-Tuck ’ . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | Neico 's better known 320 model , a two-seat 200 mph-plus homebuilt , is due to be demonstrated in Europe over the next few months . |
| 43 | Atkins employed these cyanotype plates to publish the first book illustrated with photographs , pre-dating her colleague William Henry Fox Talbot 's better known The Pencil of Nature ( 1844–6 ) . |
| 44 | Prime Minister David Lange may be know internationally as the David who slew the nuclear giant , but locally he 's better known as the man whose monetarist Minister of Finance , Roger Douglas , has led a successful crusade to corporatise government and unshackle the economuy . |
| 45 | Far from being dead , Detroit is getting a bit too much for flamboyant city police chief Gil Hill , who 's better known for his movie-acting skills — he played the dour Detroit police chief in Beverly Hills Cop I and Il . |
| 46 | They 'd gathered for the launch of the Celebrities Cookbook by Richard Wilson , who 's better known as the crusty and cantankerous Victor Meldrew . |
| 47 | He 's better known as Captain Kirk and after that as T.J. Hooker . |
| 48 | The music 's better known as The Entertainer by Scott Joplin . |
| 49 | Middlesex Street in London has a very famous market and the street 's better known by this name , what is it ? |
| 50 | It 's hormone replacement the therapy , it 's better known as H R T. |
| 51 | Trustee Bradford Eastman Phillips , retired president of Totes rain gear company and a member of the $1 million-plus club , took title to the Great Hall , which is henceforth known as the Phillips Hall . |
| 52 | SELL-THROUGH , as the retail sector of the video market is obscurely known , is at the moment very much a bull market , and there has lately been a growing shift to releasing more recent movies in this way . |
| 53 | a There are far more cases in which each party is only known to have married once , but the evidence is so fragmentary that it is likely that the figures seriously underestimate the number of second , third and fourth marriages . |
| 54 | It is only known to breed in the Gulf area , where it digs out burrows in the sand and , as its name suggests , it feeds almost exclusively on crabs . |
| 55 | But one chromosome may be missing ( this is only known in humans in the form XO ( = Y chromosome missing ) which produces a specific syndrome of sexual and other effects known as the Turner syndrome ) . |
| 56 | The cause is only known to mathematicians and philosophers constantly engaged in the study of infinity . |
| 57 | The delay t o is only known approximately , and so the cross-correlation is repeated for 3µ steps in t o ( i.e. every 1000 m ) . |
| 58 | One of these , the Blacksmith s Arms , is familiarly known as the Bombers , from its wartime associations with Melbourne airfield , built partly on Seaton Ross Common . |
| 59 | What is less known is that at the close of the Southern African conflict , this same general had been discreetly retired , and he had then entered business , dealing in shipments from Southern Africa . |
| 60 | What is less known is the extraordinary diaspora of Goan professionals . |