Example sentences of "[am/are] know from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Portraits of the famous Roman emperors are known from a large number of other sources , principally sculpture , but for many of the Hellenistic kings or Roman emperors of the third century AD , coins provide the only portrait evidence . |
| 2 | Archaic Greek coins are found in hoards from Egypt and the Levant , as they were exchanged for goods , perhaps grain or slaves ; many hoards of Roman silver and gold coins are known from southern India because they were exchanged for luxury items such as exotic spices and perfumes , rich silks and precious gems . |
| 3 | But despite these problems the method receives powerful support from the practical comparison of the representation of coin issues in hoards and the size of those issues where they are known from mint records . |
| 4 | Because of the patchy nature of the fossil record many species ( particularly of large vertebrate animals ) are known from only one specimen ; some of these are of almost inestimable value , which is why museums have to take good care of their material . |
| 5 | Nummulites are known from England , but they are most numerous in the Mediterranean and eastwards , where they form limestone formations of great thickness . |
| 6 | Pemmatites species are known from a number of localities in the Permian and Carboniferous of Europe . |
| 7 | Corals with this simple form are known from Ordovician to Carboniferous rocks , but there are differences in detailed structure . |
| 8 | Acanthodian fishes generally resembling this one are known from quite complete specimens from Devonian to Permian rocks . |
| 9 | Some achieved a considerable size In the Devonian rocks , fishes of this kind are known from ( mostly ) freshwater deposits in Scotland , Wales , Norway and arctic Canada . |
| 10 | Whatever momentous steps they took in the Devonian , the lungfish and lobe fins have been very conservative since , for the living lungfish are clearly similar to their Palaeozoic relatives and coelacanth lobe fins like the living genus ( Latimeria ) are known from Cretaceous rocks . |
| 11 | A number of related fossil species are known from cretaceous rocks This species is from Cretaceous fish beds in Turga , Nertchinsk , Siberia . |
| 12 | The truth is that there are a few sites ( especially in North America ) where abundant remains of complete animals have been recovered , and from which a passable idea of the fauna of the Mesozoic can be obtained , but there are still great gaps in our knowledge , and many of the dinosaurs are known from a handful of individuals , or even a single specimen . |
| 13 | A few other fossil species of Rhus are known from the Tertiary rocks . |
| 14 | However , though plaster models are known from antiquity , no certain traces of the use of a pointing machine have yet been found on Roman copies . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . , |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Rhynchosaurs did not diversify — radiate — into so many different forms and niches as many other major groups of animals , but they are known from many parts of the world and they certainly did change and evolve with time . |
| 20 | ‘ A general provision is made to cover losses on advances impaired at the balance sheet date which , although not yet specifically identified , are known from experience to exist in the portfolio of advances . |
| 21 | Of some books which are known from records and letters to have existed , no copies at all are known to have survived . |
| 22 | Snaffle-bits of two linked iron bars with a small ring at each end are known from a scatter of cemeteries across the country from Lincolnshire to Kent ( Welch 1983 , p. 112 ) . |
| 23 | Such doors could have been secured by the use of a drawbar ; keys for the operation of such devices are known from some better provided for women 's graves . |
| 24 | The greatest number are known from the Midlands and eastern England . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Byzantine vessels in contexts dated to the second half of the sixth century are known from the Isle of Wight ( Arnold 1982a ) . |
| 27 | A die for impressing sheet metal with Style II ornament was found at Barton-on-Humber ( Lincolnshire ) with a set of weights and a balance ( Capelle and Vierck 1971 ) and other dies are known from Salmonby ( Lincolnshire ) , two from Suffolk and there is an example from Salisbury ( Wiltshire ) ( ibid. ) , all of seventh-century date . |
| 28 | A typical example are musical instruments , in particular lyres , which are known from four burials , Bergh Apton ( Norfolk ) , Morningthorpe ( Norfolk ) the well-furnished barrow burials of Sutton Hoo mound 1 and Taplow ( Bruce-Mitford 1970 ; Lawson 1978 ) . |
| 29 | Few of these tools have been found ; definite examples of dies ( Briscoe 1981 ) are known from West Stow ( X4 ) , Lackford and Little Eriswell ( Suffolk ) , Shakenoak and Illington , mostly made of antler , but bone was also used . |
| 30 | Such colander-type vessels are known from Mucking , West Stow and Sutton Courtenay ( Jones and Jones 1975 , fig. 54.6 ; West 1985 , fig. 152 ; Leeds 1927 , pp. 72–3 ) . |