Example sentences of "is known [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr de Klerk , who has acted as an adviser to the anti-apartheid Democratic Party , is known to be close to his brother , but politics is rarely on the agenda when they meet . |
| 2 | Another company to which Ferranti is known to be talking is Daimler Benz , the giant West German vehicles , aircraft and electricals group . |
| 3 | There was an almost equally dramatic sequel to the race when Carroll House , who is known to be a highly strung individual , lashed out several times as he was returning and almost caught well-wishers patting his quarters . |
| 4 | Gagosian does not represent artists or their interests , he simply buys and sells works on the market , and he is known to be spectacularly good at it . |
| 5 | The US motor industry is known to be sceptical over whether the timescale proposed for the new emission levels can be met . |
| 6 | However , the Treasury is known to be resisting this plan , because without a strict cash limit its control over public spending and manpower planning would be weakened . |
| 7 | And although Mrs Thatcher has none of these defects , she is known to be not averse to the occasional run on sterling . |
| 8 | There our friends and relatives sometimes come to visit us and speak resolutely of trivial matters ; children seldom come , because that might seem ‘ morbid ’ , especially if the illness is known to be terminal . |
| 9 | Yet if the example is modified a little , so that the overtaking is on a country road at night and the risk is known to be slight , it becomes questionable whether the causing of death in these circumstances should be labelled in the same way as intentional killings . |
| 10 | ‘ Actually , ’ Doone said calmly , ‘ he is known to be able to drive his father 's jeep on the Downs expertly , and my men have discovered he was out of school last Wednesday afternoon on a field trip to Windsor Safari Park . |
| 11 | Travel sickness is known to be the result of repetitive movements on the organ of balance in the inner-ear , but very little is known about the types of movements responsible and the types of people who suffer most . |
| 12 | Only one company is known to be still selling bonds at pre-election rates . |
| 13 | For example , the regional distribution of residential and foster care services in the United Kingdom is known to be uneven with some local authorities using EBD schools and residential care far more frequently than others ( Fuller and Stevenson , 1983 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Soya based formulas should only be used with medical advice when a baby is known to be allergic to cow 's milk formula , as soya protein is just as allergenic as cow 's milk . |
| 16 | Hypoglycaemia , as might be expected , may affect platelet function substantially ( Hutton et al , 1979 ; Hilsted et al , 1980 ) , presumably by stimulating the release of counter-regulatory hormones , particularly adrenaline which is known to be a potent stimulus for platelet aggregation . |
| 17 | The individual 's level of stress is known to be important in relation to maintaining a safe environment . |
| 18 | In bites and stings if the creature is known to be poisonous or the person is known to react badly to such bites or stings . |
| 19 | This line element is in fact one form of the Bertotti-Robinson solution ( Bertotti 1959 , Robinson 1959 ) , which is known to be conformally flat . |
| 20 | SPAR 's behaviour seems better if two conditions apply : that the reasoner is known to be less reliable than the linguistic part of the system , as it might be if the texts processed describe a relatively open domain ; and that , as for example , in a machine translation task , no further non-linguistic processing will be carried out on the reading accepted . |
| 21 | There is no single , universally accepted type of service that is known to be more successful in the management of attempted suicide patients thin any other . |
| 22 | Even so , the sea is known to be an important habitat supporting in winter flocks of diving ducks , mainly Common Scoter , Eider and Red-breasted Merganser ; grebes , mainly Great Crested and Slavonian ; a few divers and auks , and considerable numbers of gulls . |
| 23 | If the student is known to be competent at planning , and it is the details of execution we are to teach , then a double objective would be acceptable . |
| 24 | Movement in such species is known to be due to turgor changes in the specialised hinge-like regions of the leaf , known as pulvini . |
| 25 | The nutrient value of foods is known to be affected by higher doses , Sherlock added , although the loss is not much different from other preservation process . |
| 26 | All money raised for the charity from the marathon will be channelled into specific projects in five African countries where the future of the elephant is known to be under particularly serious threat . |
| 27 | The efficacy of speed limits thus depends on drivers ' self-discipline , but this is known to be lax , particularly as modern cars are neither designed nor advertised to encourage low-speed driving . |
| 28 | If your elderly relative is unfortunate enough to be registered with a doctor who is impatient with the older patients on his list and not particularly interested in geriatric medicine , the best thing to do is to try to get her transferred to the list of another doctor in the area whose attitude towards his elderly patients is known to be more sympathetic and thorough . |
| 29 | Unless your elderly parent is known to be both very slow to take offence , and also to be a great lover of ‘ lists ’ for everything in life , it would be useless and irritating to her to be presented with a series of sensible menus to follow . |
| 30 | Separate eggs/fry from the parents if the species is known to be an egg/fry eater . |