Example sentences of "are now know " in BNC.

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1 Deletions of 5q and 7q are now know to be among the commonest chromosomal abnormalities found in myelodysplasia and secondary acute myeloid leukaemia .
2 ( It should be noted in passing that yet further confusion — and pain to me — was added by Tony Geraghty 's once associating the incident of the missing plane with the unfortunate Operation Loyton , in which the S.A.S. troops posted missing are now known to have been tortured and shot by the Gestapo . )
3 Quite a variety of Silurian plants are now known , and by the end of the Devonian it is apparent that most of the problems of terrestrial living had been solved , to the extent that large tree ‘ ferns ’ of the time would have had dimensions comparable with forest trees today .
4 As we will discuss later , pathogens in general — including viruses — are now known to be of enormous ecological importance ( see p 132 ) .
5 Those of you who have read my papers in Nature may know that these are now known as Briant Bodies , and fall into four distinct groups , which I have labeled Alpha , Beta , Gamma and Delta .
6 It must be noted that over a third of causes of severe mental handicap are now known .
7 Many inscriptions on monuments that were previously thought to be purely calendrical are now known to commemorate specific events of historical significance , but the only three Maya books that have survived are all devoted to astronomy .
8 The signalling properties of the polarizing region are now known to be quite unrelated to cell death which is a separate process .
9 Many other examples of Peleean eruptions are now known , especially among the volcanoes in the Philippine Islands , and they have been closely studied , since there is considerable interest in how these eruptions occur and in particular how the material in a nuee is actually transported .
10 At the beginning of the Triassic the dominant land animals were the mammal-like reptiles , the synapsids , although they had already been badly affected by dramatic events at the end of the Permian ; catastrophic events of the kind that are now known to have turned the course of Earth 's history several times .
11 But they did n't confine their speculations to bacterial transposons — or even to plants and fruit-flies , which are now known to harbour similar transposable elements .
12 In addition , two 18th century heirs who had legitimate claims to the throne , but are now known as the Old and Young Pretenders , were both of the House of Stewart .
13 The two schools later relocated to Saltersgill and are now known as the Beverley Schools for the Deaf , Middlesbrough .
14 The two Anne-Marie 's are now known in Lancaster as the ‘ dynamic duo ’ .
15 The diets of older people will often consist of foods favoured in their younger days , but which are now known to be deleterious to health .
16 ISRAEL : Six Lebanese Shi ‘ a Muslims who ‘ disappeared ’ in Lebanon in 1990 are now known to be in Israeli custody .
17 Fluorite-barite and base- and precious-metals mineral deposits elsewhere in south-west England are now known to have been deposited from such brines .
18 In the middle ages , the sea level rose and the hollowed out ground filled with water — the resulting water-filled depressions became what are now known today as the broads .
19 Over the centuries these became distinct in type and are now known as Night Goblins .
20 The soft-bodied Ediacaran animals occupied a wide range of Vendian ( Latest Proterozoic ) marine environments and are now known from all over the world .
21 Both this cluster of disease and another cluster in Slovakia are now known to be genetic in origin and associated with a missense mutation at codon 200 of the prion protein gene causing substitution of lysine in place of glutamate at residue 200 of the prion protein ( inherited prion disease ( PrP lysine 200 ) ) .
22 The changes were carried into the Companies Act 1989 and are now known as the ‘ New Settlement ’ .
23 Metabolism of Insect Muscle — Some of the metabolic events occurring in active muscular tissue , especially in flight-muscle , are now known in considerable biochemical detail ( e.g. Sacktor , 1965 , 1970 ) .
24 The masses of the jovian planets are now known accurately from the Voyager missions , but in the past they were not , and much of the speculation on Planet X has been based on residuals from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory 's ephemeris DE200 and it predecessors , which used a Neptune mass in error by 0.5 per cent .
25 The numbfish , which Pliny the Elder recorded in the first century AD , are now known as electric rays .
26 Thirteen different α chains and eight different βchains are now known .
27 Sequence effects are now known to include a wide variety of conformational changes , concerning both mutual base positions and modifications of the phosphodiester backbones .
28 Dozens of such brain-acting peptides are now known to exist , including many closely related to hormones which act elsewhere in the body .
29 Mid-waters of the Southern Ocean are little explored ; for long considered empty , they are now known to be the haunt , possibly the refuge , of several species of fish and squid which feed either near the surface or at the bottom .
30 Such craters are now known elsewhere in the Solar System as you have already seen in the case of Mars , and therefore the mechanism by which they are formed is of widespread relevance .
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