Example sentences of "[noun] [am/are] know [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Additionally , drugs widely used for the treatment of ulcerative colitis such as sulfasalazine and 5-ASA are known to be potent anti-reactive oxygen species agents .
2 The subjective estimate could be based on pure hunch and guesswork at the end of period t - 1 , but in order to introduce a degree of empirical testability into the model it is normally assumed that is arrived at by some policy rule which includes on the right-hand side only those variables whose magnitudes are known at the end of the period t - 1 .
3 According to Catherine Johns , at least four parallels are known from Britain , and none from the Continent .
4 And if you 're going to try and look inside one of these things then you 're going to have to use very high energy particles , which in quantum physics means something that is very short wavelength that you can actually look inside , and when you look inside these things by , say , scattering electrons from them , very high energy electrons , it appears that inside a proton and inside a neutron is mainly again just free space , and there are other point like objects inside these particles , and these objects are know as quarks .
5 The thinnest crusts are known as desert varnish .
6 Archaic Greek coins are found in hoards from Egypt and the Levant , as they were exchanged for goods , perhaps grain or slaves ; many hoards of Roman silver and gold coins are known from southern India because they were exchanged for luxury items such as exotic spices and perfumes , rich silks and precious gems .
7 Two identical strategies using no wealth and involving no risk ( such strategies are known as arbitrage strategies ) should , in equilibrium , generate the same profit , and that profit should be zero .
8 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 .
9 Such cases are known as fluent restorations .
10 In Wales these third-tier authorities are known as community councils .
11 Those at a diocesan level are known as Consistory Courts ; ‘ chancellors ’ act as judges .
12 Cockroaches and dragonflies appeared in the Upper Carboniferous ( 300 m years ago ) , at the same time as the giant clubmosses , ferns and seed ferns ; beetles are known from the Permian , and flies and wasps from the end of the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous when the angiosperms were diverging from their seed-fern ancestors .
13 A die for impressing sheet metal with Style II ornament was found at Barton-on-Humber ( Lincolnshire ) with a set of weights and a balance ( Capelle and Vierck 1971 ) and other dies are known from Salmonby ( Lincolnshire ) , two from Suffolk and there is an example from Salisbury ( Wiltshire ) ( ibid. ) , all of seventh-century date .
14 In most places of the world New Zealanders are known as Kiwis , yet very few New Zealanders have actually seen a kiwi , especially in its natural habitat of the forest floor . ’
15 Bonds issued in the UK in sterling by domestic issuers or foreign issuers are known as domestic and foreign ( or bulldog ) bonds , respectively .
16 Erm , in Shropshire the M F U are known to be in favour of compulsory dips , there 's no difference between us , but if we are going down , you are going to send a re erm , er , a joint representation , then I think before you agree to send a joint representation then you need to have a meeting with M F U and C L A , to make certain that we 're all saying the same thing .
17 These forms are known as a Deportation Order .
18 Those laws which are enacted by Parliament are known as statutory laws or legislation .
19 The top quality items on woollen foundations are known as Postavaro , and have 150 knots per in 2 , these are followed by Harmon ( 130 ) , Brasov ( 105 ) and Transylvania ( 80 ) .
20 The Namurian is composed of sandstones and shales , and thin coals are known at several localities .
21 Abbreviations should only be used if their meanings are known to users .
22 This certainly seems to be the case with the larger structures located in the south-eastern part of the walled area at Water Newton , and is more convincingly demonstrated at Kenchester , where at least three wealthy houses are known in similar locations , served by separate side-streets .
23 The common feature of these determining variables is that , being lagged , their values are known at the end of period t - 1 .
24 Such patterns are known as gratings .
25 These predisposed patterns are known as co-occurrences or collocations , and account for many English word combinations .
26 Bankrupt stars of this kind are known as White Dwarfs .
27 ‘ Your kind are known to us , Doctor , and have been for longer than you can imagine . ’
28 Some achieved a considerable size In the Devonian rocks , fishes of this kind are known from ( mostly ) freshwater deposits in Scotland , Wales , Norway and arctic Canada .
29 Only two sketches are known for his French operas and none for the Italian ones .
30 The chemicals that make up living things are all based on chains of carbon atoms , with hydrogen atoms attached to them all along the chain — such molecules are known as hydrocarbons .
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