Example sentences of "[noun pl] be known to " in BNC.

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1 Other cases are known to Amnesty International , where asylum seekers travelling without valid travel documents have been prevented by airline personnel , sometimes with the knowledge of Immigration Officers , from applying for political asylum in this country .
2 Abbreviations should only be used if their meanings are known to users .
3 When one or more water molecules are known to be coordinated to a central atom in a complex ion , the system for naming complex ions described above can be used .
4 Once this has occurred , risks are known to be very high , in some cases one in four for further births .
5 Waiting lists are known to be an inaccurate indicator of need , as many doctors do not refer patients if they know the wait will be long ( this is as true for instance for hearing aids as it is for hip replacements ) .
6 Some fragments are known to nearly everyone , but not always who said them and in which play .
7 Reserves are known to be low in Sudan , and thought to be low in Ethiopia .
8 Exactly what the sea anemone gains from this relationship is not known , but crabs with anemones on their shells are known to be much less vulnerable to attack by octopuses .
9 Those characteristics were known to that keeper or were at any time known to a person who at that time had charge of the animal as that keeper 's servant or , where that keeper is the head of a household , were known to another keeper of the animal who is a member of that household and under the age of sixteen . ’
10 ( It is interesting to note that freshwater pearls were known to the Chinese by the beginning of the first millennium B.C. )
11 As Clarke and Morrison discuss , their data are comparable with other studies in Fiji : such losses were known to be occurring more than 20 years ago but went unheeded in the wake of development .
12 By late July about 20 dissidents were known to be in detention , several ( including Matiba and Rubia ) under security legislation which allowed for detention without charge for up to 14 days or longer .
13 The A n T m tracts are known to strongly contribute to gel mobility anomaly and so to DNA curvature ( 1,3,4,9,26 ) .
14 Data on cardiovascular disease from death certificates are known to be inaccurate .
15 Counselling about termination of pregnancy is offered where one or both parents are known to be infected .
16 Because viruses are known to be implicated in the development of certain cancers , it was natural to investigate any possible relationship between herpes infection of the cervix and cervical cancer .
17 Both companies are known to be pro-rail and hopeful of putting their goods back in the tracks if a more realistic service can be offered in the future .
18 Sandra , a full-time barrister and a mother of three , says some judges are known to be partial to women in wigs and gowns .
19 Samuel , Dorothy Perkins and C and J Clark Shoes were known to be among the stores which signed up .
20 Eight thousand miners were known to be in Yanomami territory in 1989 , when they constructed a hundred airstrips to ferry in fuel , food and mining equipment .
21 Former headmen were known to be important organizers of the illicit trade in stolen cattle .
22 We have noted that a male community defends a group territory and the outcome of aggressive interactions between different communities is known to be in part dependent upon party size .
23 We followed standard protocols for the preparation of bacterial suspensions for adhesion and hydrophobicity assays because the expression of adhesins is known to be affected by nutrient and growth conditions ; however , as repeat assays with both control strains and patient isolates confirmed , such properties are otherwise quite stable phenotypic markers .
24 River insects develop wings in the last stage of their life cycle , and dragonflies are known to be able to fly many miles .
25 Indeed , the E.coli rrnB and rrnD P 1 promoters for rRNAs are known to be salt-sensitive , being necessary not only the initiating NTPs but also low salt concentrations to obtain a stable complex in linear templates ( 8 ) .
26 All these gases are known to be highly chemically reactive .
27 Psychological stressors are known to be important contributory factors in relation to accidents .
28 his abilities are known to management and team alike and he is a man refreshed .
29 Nurse Sharon Hill died when the party of tourists she was with came under fire in an area where terrorists were known to be active .
30 Suspect food was masked in a meal in which all other constituents were known to be safe .
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