Example sentences of "[num] [am/are] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least fifty are known , stretching from Colorado up into Canada . |
| 2 | After ballots of parents , 215 schools have so far opted out : but another 2,000 are known to be keen to do so , given that grant-maintained status offers them money and freedom . |
| 3 | At least three are known , each served by a short side-street or lane . |
| 4 | Of the 426 chemicals cleared for use in farming , 166 are known to cause , or are suspected of links with cancer , birth defects , genetic mutations and allergies . |
| 5 | This could be in his favour , as the penalties for failing to hit the targets at the par-fives are known to all television viewers . |
| 6 | His library of three thousand volumes was dispersed in 1675 and the whereabouts of some 350 are known . |
| 7 | These results appear rather striking since DNAaseI is a bulky enzyme and phosphates alkylated at -39.5 , -38.5 , -37.5 and -36.5 are known to interfere with RNA polymerase binding [ 29,30 ] . |
| 8 | Addition then gives unc Theorem IX — If a matrix A and its inverse A-1 are known , then if a unit rank matrix is added to A , the inverse of the new matrix may be written down . |
| 9 | The years from 1868 until his death in 1912 are known as the Meiji period . |
| 10 | Thirty-four people accepted invitations to the meeting ( see photo ) and 37 are known to have declined . |
| 11 | Bristol 's equable climate probably favours the survival of this warmth-loving species ; though present in certain northern cities , such as Sheffield where five are known , the wild fig elsewhere remains small and vulnerable . |
| 12 | And of those few hundred roundneck Tri-Plates , only eleven of the top-line Chrysanthemum-pattern Style 4s are known to exist . |
| 13 | These fifty or so gifts , of which some twenty are known to have survived , constitute the true first edition of 1865 . |
| 14 | The perforations for BA-1 are known to be very short in penetration length . |
| 15 | Some of these have marked irritant properties and some 60 are known or suspected carcinogens ( cancer causing substances ) , including benzo(a)pyrene and dimethylnitrosamine . |
| 16 | Sonic thirty pages in volume two are known to contain an account of everyday life on Islay at the time of the author 's visit , and notes on the fishing at Portnahaven are particularly valuable . |
| 17 | Sonic thirty pages in volume two are known to contain an account of everyday life on Islay at the time of the author 's visit , and notes on the fishing at Portnahaven are particularly valuable . |
| 18 | The Lears are unusual in that they live in colonies ( two are known to exist ) in North Brazil , where the natives regard them as food and not an endangered species . |
| 19 | One priority identified by participants was to attempt a census of living species , of which only 1.4 million are known , out of a total estimated at between 5 million and 50 million . |
| 20 | Of more senior rank are the legionary centurions recorded as centuriones regionarii ; they probably had wider responsibilities with oversight over whole districts and only four are known in Britain . |
| 21 | Now over a hundred are known , mostly infecting species other than man . |
| 22 | Over a hundred are known to have existed , and there may have been over a thousand at various times . |
| 23 | More than a hundred are known , though only three ( Omega Centauri and 47 Tucanæ in the southern sky , and the Hercules globular in the northern ) are clearly visible with the naked eye . |
| 24 | One factor complicating the analysis of ZNF genes in mammals is their remarkably high number ; several hundred are known to exist in man ( 8 ) , and 60-70 of these are expressed in a single cell type ( T cell ; 9 ) . |
| 25 | Of the trees , only seven are known to be dispersed by monkeys or birds as well . |
| 26 | But these totals are dwarfed by the immense numbers of submarine volcanoes in the world 's ocean basins ; at least 50 000 are known to exist on the floor of the Pacific Ocean . |
| 27 | In the 1980s in a household survey , thirty adults in 1,000 admitted to problems with drink and five in 1,000 are known to at least one agency as having problems associated with drinking . |
| 28 | Relationships such as those shown in the hierarchy in Figure 12.1 are known as semantic relationships , representing connections between associated subjects . |