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

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1 We exemplify the general iteration procedure of 2.3.2 ; we write B — C for A , where the reciprocal of B is known or easily obtained .
2 As he had always maintained good relations with a number of Swiss wholesalers , the products were well known and well received there .
3 There are , too , very strong historical links between the city and the science ; links which are well known and well documented .
4 Ethel May was well known and well liked , which stood her well when she was forced to support the family single-handedly , by opening a beauty shop in her own home .
5 American theatre is well known and well regarded here , and to choose a piece from any of those just mentioned is thoroughly viable .
6 The long-lasting substantial differentials between social classes is well known and well established due to the excellent analyses produced in the past in the Registrar General 's Decennial Supplements .
7 You 're familiar with his subject , you know he is an authority , internationally known and universally respected .
8 Another well known and frequently reported story is that of the man and his dog at Swithland .
9 Hobbes 's thought , in contrast , was both well known and widely regarded as in need of refutation on account of its low view of man .
10 It may well be a ‘ parody ’ : the eight songs attributable to Bedyngham are between them supplied with no fewer than twenty-six different texts in four languages ; three remain doubtful as to their form , but two are ballades and three rondeaux , forms well known and widely practised in England at the time .
11 was represented by a greater number of compositions , and certainly Lambe 's work was well known and widely circulated .
12 Quite apart from the practical problems of care , the family is faced with the sadness of coming to terms with change in a person they have known and probably loved all their life .
13 The arrangements which people make privately for various domestic services are well known and little questioned , although practitioners need to be aware of them and relate to the people concerned in planning packages of care .
14 Whilst the basic facts about drinking are well known and mostly based on common sense , some of the issues surrounding alcohol abuse are a lot more complex .
15 Although they are little known and infrequently seen , they are enormously abundant .
16 Essentially , it had a directing and supervisory role , ensuring that the policies laid down by the Politburo were known and vigorously pursued at all levels .
17 The dense , lush forests harbour many little known and rarely seen creatures , like this diminutive mouse deer ( above ) .
18 This it did for all but 150 years , becoming one of the best known and best loved of all our rural branch lines . ’
19 The Korn/Ferry name is most widely known and publicly quoted of all search firms — Lester Korn is seen as the man who brought headhunting out into the open — and thus the firm can guarantee almost instant interest from potential candidates .
20 Marjorie had only told her what she had really always known — or , rather , what she now felt she had always known and hypocritically ignored .
21 But his 1775 candidate is well known — indeed she was better known and more celebrated after death than at any other time in her existence .
22 One of Scotland 's most famous artists was the ‘ deaf and dumb Geikie , ’ as he was commonly known and so quoted in a publication in 1837 called Bibliographical , Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and Scotland by Charles Frognall Dibdin .
23 Dutch Edam is well known and much loved in Britain for its mild flavour and appeal on the cheeseboard — so much so that its versatility for use in cooking is sometimes forgotten .
24 Since there was no longer any need to make diplomatic gestures in the direction of right-wing totalitarianism , Lequerica was replaced at the Foreign Ministry by Alberto Martín Artajo y Alvárez , a man well known and much respected in Catholic circles at home and abroad .
25 I asked her what on earth happens to people who do n't live in a small town where they are known and therefore helped .
26 We exclude from that cautious commendation the fact little known and less needed that 5ft 4in Bobby Kerr was the final 's smallest captain , but throw one or two other coins into the fountain .
27 Much of Europe now has its champion to watch on that famous , treacherous stretch ; and to many , the champion is better known and better loved than any politician .
28 For it was known and greatly deplored by male unionists , that the women 's resistance movement did indeed have support from middle-class women 's suffrage groups in Edinburgh .
29 Their numbers are known and supposedly accounted for by the vergers .
30 Despite being a little known and often misunderstood technique , silverpoint is still in use by contemporary artists and some specialist suppliers in the UK offer silverpoints and prepared paper .
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