Example sentences of "[noun prp] [is] [adv] known " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some species have been almost exterminated , e.g. Per.sea theobromifolia ( Lauraceae ) , formerly the ‘ mahogany ’ of Ecuador is now known from only 12 trees . |
| 2 | The example of the United States is well known : |
| 3 | DEF is well known to us and would be a different sort of purchaser giving you the German influence . |
| 4 | Mr Shrager is better known in the City . |
| 5 | Dr Kim is well known in ecumenical circles for his commitment to justice and peace issues . |
| 6 | Kirchberg is well known locally for its band and throughout the season they stage many concerts ranging from the serene to good old thigh slapping and yodelling nights out . |
| 7 | It 's still the general feeling by several of Scotland 's well known bands that the only place to record is London and if they record in Scotland it 's a bit parochial . ’ |
| 8 | Mr Chandler is best known for his book ‘ The Visible Hand ’ , published in 1977 , which chronicled the rise of managerial capitalism in America and won him a Pulitzer prize . |
| 9 | As already noted the Car Dike , north of Peterborough is now known not to have been a canal but a Roman catch-water drain . |
| 10 | However , it is as an active patron of architecture that Hope is best known , where he used his immense wealth to provide the tangible realization of his Gothic aspirations . |
| 11 | ‘ The NFU is well known for representing farmers , and it 's necessary for the BHA to be easily understood as representing the hospitality industry in all its forms , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ As Scotland is little known to the greater part of those who may read these observations , it is not superfluous to relate that under the name Aberdeen are comprised two towns standing about a mile distant from each other , but governed , I think , by the same magistrates . ’ |
| 13 | It is surely significant ( both scientifically and economically ) that the great " hard rock " massif of Scotland is now known to be almost entirely surrounded by much later " soft rock " basins . |
| 14 | The flood story in Babylonia is also known from a Sumerian text telling virtually the same tale , though more briefly , and many Sumerian compositions refer to the distant days of the flood or before . |
| 15 | For example , Academician Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar is better known in certain circles as Igor ‘ Obmanilovich ’ Grabar . |
| 16 | A rug made in the Persian town of Kashan is therefore known as a Kashan , and an item woven by the Belouch nomads is called a Belouch . |
| 17 | It is , however , for his accomplished monumental sculpture that William Stanton is best known . |
| 18 | CLIFF Burgess of Portchester is best known to Mid-Hants Railway members through his association with the Working Omnibus Museum Project which is creating a vintage bus collection in the former coal yard of Medstead and Four Marks Station . |
| 19 | As their relationship to the USSR is well known , the armed forces tend to attract the more pro-Soviet elements of the population . |
| 20 | The last Viscount Stansgate is better known as what ? |
| 21 | For Norris the provocative sloganistic phrases by which Derrida is best known will make true sense only when restored to the contexts from which they have been taken . |
| 22 | Jupiter is now known to have at least sixteen satellites , though the remainder are much smaller than the Galileans . |
| 23 | Although nitrate pollution of the Broads is well known , recent studies are reported to show that streams in areas such as the Cotswolds are now equally polluted . |
| 24 | Scotland 's Lord Advocate is now known to be taking a personal interest in the case . |
| 25 | Clifford Geertz 's widely known article on ‘ Deep Play : Notes on the Balinese Cockfight ’ which is both an account of the way cockfighting may be seen as a symbolically charged text acting as a ‘ carefully prepared ’ expression of Balinese life and an account of the processes by which Geertz becomes a knowing reader of this text , is a prime example of the way thick description works . |
| 26 | The richness and variety of plant life in Teesdale is well known , particularly in the lower-lying areas where some plants common in the south have their northernmost limit . |
| 27 | The 19th century explorer and illustrator , Walter Hood Fitch is best known for his flamboyant yet accurate drawings which have made a lasting contribution to our knowledge of the plant world and to the art of botanical illustration . |
| 28 | The 19th century explorer and illustrator , Walter Hood Fitch is best known for his flamboyant yet accurate drawings which have made a lasting contribution to our knowledge of the plant world and to the art of botanical illustration . |
| 29 | The case of Woodrow Wilson is well known . |
| 30 | The Belgian-born Hepburn is best known for her roles in such classics as My Fair Lady and Breakfast at Tiffany 's . |