Example sentences of "[adv] know to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This group , all known to each other , were daily injectors of ‘ speed ’ and made a conscious decision to change to what they thought was a ‘ less dangerous drug ’ . |
| 2 | On paper , there are few jobs for which large numbers of people are not qualified ; in practice , employers use a more refined and differentiated signal than educational qualifications : they use the recommendations of people personally known to them and prospective employees . |
| 3 | George knew the type locally , a pocket of fossils preserved among these border valleys , though this superlative specimen was not personally known to him . |
| 4 | This lack of ascription was subsequently remedied by the shorter prologue , which survives in a limited number of manuscripts of the Pactus : apparently known to the author of the Liber Historiae Francorum , the shorter prologue seems to date from the late seventh or early eighth century . |
| 5 | There does not remain within the artist hidden meanings only known to himself . |
| 6 | The cause is only known to mathematicians and philosophers constantly engaged in the study of infinity . |
| 7 | If z describes market conditions which are only known to the incumbent , then the results above tell us that the entrants gradually get to learn the incumbent 's private information . |
| 8 | Whilst studying at the College , Frank was instrumental in bringing an unconscious man round , and was henceforth known to his fellow-students as ‘ the doctor ’ , and every day thereafter had some ‘ visits ’ to make . |
| 9 | A proactive search is undertaken to identify companies and businesses which are not necessarily known to be for sale but which meet the client 's acquisition criteria . |
| 10 | Unable to meet the huge cost of the highly specialised asbestos de-contamination work then demanded of the entire Pullman set , SLOA agreed to sell the Pullmans to industrialist Sir William McAlpine ( better known to railway enthusiasts as the owner of Flying Scotsman ) and to hire them back for steam-charter use once the asbestos stripping work was complete . |
| 11 | Sweden has gone anti-nuclear in its power-generating policy and consequently vast hydro-power stations have been built in the northern lake areas for reasons better known to themselves , the Swedes made no provision for salmon runs so the huge lakes are now devoid of fish and the Lapps have left . |
| 12 | Had he not been followed as a Surrey opener by Jack Hobbs , then perhaps he would be better known to posterity . |
| 13 | This gas is better known to dental patients as laughing gas , but it is also a mainstay in the operating theatres of many hospitals . |
| 14 | They need to be ‘ better known to nature ’ too , prior in the order of things to the conclusions established on their basis . |
| 15 | Arthur Wilson was better known to thousands , perhaps millions , of his countrymen in Britain and Ireland as ‘ Faed ’ , the pen-name by which he contributed hundreds of articles on cycling to cycling magazines , including his own , and published books on the sport . |
| 16 | She is better known to us of course as Diana Clunt . ’ |
| 17 | Christianity came to the Franks when , in 496 , Clovis was baptised by Bishop Remigius ( better known to us as Saint-Rémy ) whose name surely is a reminder of the ancient Remi . |
| 18 | The Action Committee office bearers were confident that the characters of those adults accused , and those of their children , as well as the sort of events that could and did occur in their community , were better known to them than to Orkney 's Social Work Department . |
| 19 | Despite his aspirations to poetry , he became better-known as a prose writer in his minutes and despatches as a statesman , for ‘ Owen Meredith ’ , better known to history as Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton , first Earl of Lytton ( 1831–91 ) , became a distinguished diplomat , the climax of his career coming in 1876–80 when he served as Viceroy of India and in that capacity proclaimed Queen Victoria as Empress at Delhi in 1877 . |
| 20 | The stars turned out to pay tribute to Fred Scuttle — better known to us as … ? |
| 21 | BETTER KNOWN to most readers of this paper as the label responsible for Headbutt , Mega City Four , Bizarre Inc and J Saul Kane 's various aliases , Vinyl Solution are the UK 's forgotten rap indie . |
| 22 | The loser in April was a certain Robert Paparemborde , better known to the British public as the prop with sloping shoulders who was very difficult to scrummage against . |
| 23 | And then there was the bitter break up with The Group who shall forever more remain nameless in Ryan-land , better known to us , perhaps , as blood relations of Enya 's . |
| 24 | less reliable supporters give away one or more of these to candidates of other parties who are better known to them . |
| 25 | For longer-distance migration the destinations are likely to be places that are better known to tourists or are considered to be scenically more attractive . |
| 26 | It is the first drop of a deluge of such material , which makes social life in Egypt in the centuries after Alexander better known to us than any other part of the ancient world . |
| 27 | The music publishing company was also showing a healthy profit , particularly with the coming success of a young Newcastle songwriter , contracted to the company under the name of Gordon Sumner , but better known to the record-buying public as Sting . |
| 28 | ‘ Sting ’ , as Sumner was better known to the record-buying public , had been signed to Virgin music publishing as a complete unknown in 1976 . |
| 29 | His name and achievements became better known to the general public , however , in the sphere of lighter music : in operetta rather than in opera , and above all in the stage works of Franz Lehár , in which he charmed thousands by his sympathetic tenor quality and by the grace and variety of his vocal inflections . |
| 30 | She is perhaps better known to the local community for her involvement with two Gaelic choirs . |