Example sentences of "[prep] be known [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may even have said in the spirit of the joke that it had been one hundred and fifty-six whores , for all the world as though it was of an obsessive importance for the actual number to be known with absolute accuracy ! |
| 2 | Flows may well be exogenous as they are likely to be known with a reasonable degree of uncertainty given the contractual nature of many savings policies . |
| 3 | ‘ every contract sufficient to make a lease for years ought to have certainty in three limitations , viz. in the commencement of the term , in the continuance of it , and in the end of it ; so that all these ought to be known at the commencement of the lease , and words in a lease , which do n't make this appear , are but babble … |
| 4 | To be known to the police as having a history of crime is sufficient to be categorized a gouger , and people in Easton who are well known as gougers are always the first suspects . |
| 5 | The more minor crimes are less liable to be known to the police and recorded in the statistics than are serious crimes . |
| 6 | Leeds , in 1981 , was dominated by large areas of mugwort and wormwood , and because of the proliferation of this genus deserves to be known to botanists as ‘ Artemisia City ’ . |
| 7 | I 've thought about that and I think it 's a bad policy for any museum to be known to be selling pictures or any work of art . |
| 8 | This is in fact a correct use of the subjunctive mood , which used to be known to writers and sub-editors , and even to publishers and booksellers . |
| 9 | Although fewer people develop presenile Alzheimer 's disease , such patients are more likely to be known to the health service than older sufferers . |
| 10 | When dealing with landowners it is best to be known to be always fair , with offers close to market value , or an explanation made when this is not possible . |
| 11 | This rule applies not only to exclusion clauses but to any clause which is particularly onerous or unusual and unlikely to be known to the other party , Interfoto Picture Library v. Stiletto Visual Programmes ( 1988 C.A. ) . |
| 12 | The Home Office may think it necessary on security grounds to make regular changes , perhaps believing that it would be undesirable for the routines of governors to be known to the general public . |
| 13 | Not only is the purpose for which the consumer buys consumer goods more likely to be known to the seller ( particularly by implication ) but it is far more likely that the consumer will rely on the seller 's judgment and skill . |
| 14 | Now that 's something we in England , in Britain I should say , are not particularly aware of , but a lot of British artists who are very well known on the Continent , that in Britain would seem , you know , too avant-garde to be known to the wider public . |
| 15 | and et all ( 362 , 355 & 359 ; 1993 showed that these organs ( among others ) are sites at which the virus multiplies during the often long latency period in AIDS , but more will have to be known of this process before it can be the basis of a routine assay . |
| 16 | ( Although it is believed he survived the War , nothing more seems to be known about him ) . |
| 17 | More needs to be known about the ‘ normal ’ process of ageing . |
| 18 | In particular , more still needs to be known about the characteristics of patients most likely to benefit from treatment . |
| 19 | 1991 , 27 , 145 ) that nothing seems to be known about Clara Taylor during the years 1921–26 , when she was headmistress of the Northampton School for Girls . |
| 20 | More needs to be known about the operation of such agencies before one can judge whether the advantages of such flexibility are offset by disadvantages . |
| 21 | Less appears to be known about whether his mood swings were severe enough to justify manic-depression as a primary diagnosis ; but Smart himself gives us some clue when he writes : ‘ For I have a greater compass of mirth and melancholy than another . ’ |
| 22 | On the other hand , you know all there is to be known about me : born Bigley Road , Grays , in Essex , twenty-six years old , wife Alice … who says if she had met you afore me I would n't have had a look-in — and she only saw you from a distance . ’ |
| 23 | It will be impossible for all members of a governing body to absorb all that needs to be known about the vast subject of special needs and to be adequately informed at the same time about all the other endeavours which they have to promote . |
| 24 | More needs to be known about what becomes of the babies of very young mothers in care themselves . |
| 25 | However , it is fair to claim that the common response to individual instances of difficulty in the classroom is the antithesis of what seems to be known about the more effective school . |
| 26 | After twenty years in the force Hawken thought that he knew all there was to be known about the eccentricities of senior officers but he was wrong . |
| 27 | I mean there is quite a lot seems to be known about Wilson , and he himself , erm , wrote a lot in enormous correspondence and so on , and many of the points they make , are erm , are fairly well validated . |
| 28 | There was much less to be known about the broader background against which policy had to be made . |
| 29 | Divided up into three groupings , the A , B , and C special constabularies , according to diminishing power , responsibility , and time commitment , the force was soon cut down to class B only and these came to be known as the ‘ B Specials ’ , a thoroughly armed , militant , semi-private , and sectarian army . |
| 30 | the values of communitas are strikingly present in the literature and behaviour of what came to be known as the ‘ beat generation ’ , who were succeeded by the ‘ hippies ’ … [ and who ] opt out of the status-bound social order and acquire the stigmata of the lowly … |