Example sentences of "be [adv] known [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Their residential courses held throughout the year for both beginners and advanced students are widely known and popular ; students come from all over the world .
2 In spite of Caroline Tisdall 's marvellous study of his art which was held at the Guggenheim Museum in 1979 , this complex man has never been widely known nor understood by an American audience .
3 To the north of the area isolated tracts of limestone intrude among the peaty gritstones of the Pennines , adding a sparkle to the sombre landscapes by erupting on the surface in natural features and formations that demand attention : some are easily accessible and are popular objectives attracting many visitors , while others are little known and reached only by walking over rough ground .
4 Although they are little known and infrequently seen , they are enormously abundant .
5 It has also been long known that a child who is shortly followed by another sibling also suffers the consequences of short spacing .
6 Numerous archaeological sites are already known and have been recorded ( although often not investigated in any detail ) , so the first task is to find out what these sites are .
7 Specification of the problem in terms of u τ and Θ H is particularly useful in application to the atmospheric boundary layer , as these are often known when the dynamics of the whole system are not .
8 ‘ in the wreck of human affairs , indeed , God often makes His truth appear ; and causes His Gospel , like a plank thrown out to the perishing mariner , to be properly known and prized . ’
9 Elsewhere , too , there have been significant statements : the Kenya Government Sessional Paper ‘ African Socialism and its Application to Planning in Kenya ’ ( 1965 ) , ’ Seretse Khama 's ‘ Education for a Nation ’ ( 1969 ) , a speech which deserves to be better known than it is , and the statement of the Imbokodvo National Movement in Swaziland ( 1972 ) .
10 This book sheds some light on events that deserve to be better known as for many the months that elapsed proved fatal .
11 To be already known and understood gives an obvious head-start but since this is a particular sort of meeting , disciplined boundaries and clear objectives need to be set by both parties .
12 A reader has pointed out to me : ‘ It is quite unreasonable for you to criticise the scheme since it may not be generally known that any Senior Manager is able to purchase a top-of-the-range BMW K Series four-cylinder model anti-lock brakes , black paint finish , radio etc and still have funds to spare . ’
13 It may not be generally known that on the first Tuesday of each month there is an Interdenominational Church Service at 10.30 am at the Nursing Home which is usually well attended .
14 ‘ Because if you do n't , ’ said Owen , ‘ I shall let it be generally known that Andrus has been giving money to the Moslems for them to use against Copts . ’
15 The ideas of problem solving appear to be well known or obvious , but most of us will be able to recall situations where we spent hours or days on a problem whose solution was ‘ obvious ’ once we found it .
16 It will be difficult to avoid noticing the work of primary schools that are effectively marketing themselves , their reputation will be well known and their efforts highly publicised .
17 The hospital appears to be well known and popular with local residents and therefore a vast amount of acute work … is undertaken . ’
18 If God 's existence is ‘ wagered upon ’ in the way that the outcome of a race is wagered upon , then by definition that existence can not be certainly known until after the race is run ( presumably after death ) .
19 The dangers of excess sunlight are well known but there is increasing evidence that even everyday UVA exposure can have an ageing effect on skin .
20 My bonny lies over the ocean The words are well known but I worked out some actions I use as follows :
21 Some are well known but new technology brings new problems .
22 Anagrams and crosswords are well known but generally do n't teach spelling .
23 The medical consequences of high alcohol consumption are well known but even doctors are reluctant to use the term " alcoholism " because it may be seen as a personal insult rather than as a justifiable clinical diagnosis .
24 The real problem is that such research reveals modes of thought and practice which are well known and constituted , but which are necessarily concealed .
25 The existing biases of research and development are well known and include big as against small farmers bias ; cash crop as against subsistence crop bias ; maximum average yield as against maximum yields in bad years ; irrigable as against dry land crops ; and higher yields per unit as against higher yields per worker .
26 The social and historical value of both Herculaneum and Pompeii are well known and need not detain us here .
27 There is also a ‘ low income ’ grouping of some 40 including such countries as India and Pakistan whose problems are well known and a large number of seldom publicised countries such as Benin , Mali , Chad and Togo .
28 These are well known and have been described elsewhere ( Lam 1983 ; Wagner 1989 ) .
29 Black bituminous Silurian shales of oil source rock quality are well known and widespread on the Continent .
30 The relationships between coalification and oil and gas formation are well known and have been described by M. Teichmüller ( 1971 ) , Bartenstein and R. Teichmüller ( 1974 ) , Tissot and Welte ( 1978 ) , Hunt ( 1979 ) , Héroux et al. ( 1979 ) and M. Teichmüller ( 1982 ) .
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