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

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1 It 's it 's on the basis that any employer has a duty of care to employees and what I mean by that is that er an employer has a responsibility to not work employers er er employees under conditions that that are known to be unsafe .
2 Equations such as this are known as reduced form equations .
3 The utterances which do this are known as pre-sequences .
4 Through chauvinism or lack of thoroughness they omitted the many Scottish versions of the rhyme , even though some are known to be very old .
5 Setae which are particularly stout and rigid are known as bristles and are well exhibited for example in the Tachinidae .
6 After ballots of parents , 215 schools have so far opted out : but another 2,000 are known to be keen to do so , given that grant-maintained status offers them money and freedom .
7 This could be in his favour , as the penalties for failing to hit the targets at the par-fives are known to all television viewers .
8 Finally , goods which are both non-excludable and non-rivalrous are known as public goods .
9 No porosity or permeability data has been published for the oolitic grainstones but these are known to be porous in the southern North Sea and Poland where they display both primary inter-granular and leached intragranular pores ( Taylor and Colter 1975 ; Peryt and Piatkowski 1977 ; Peryt 1978 ) .
10 These are known to us as the African elephant , Loxodonta africana , and the Asian elephant , Elephas maximus .
11 Although realistic estimates of the capital costs to the university for radical restructuring are not available , these are known to be substantial ( perhaps £200m immediately ) , and the implications of all the Tomlinson proposals to the wellbeing of Londoners , to the university , and to the practice of medicine in London must be viewed with great concern .
12 These are known to be extremely irritant to the skin and can cause asthmatic reactions in some people .
13 These are known as waiting days .
14 These are known as ‘ Kent peg tapered tiles ’ as they narrow in length , holes being incorporated at the narrow ends to accept wooden pegs which locate them on the roofing battens .
15 Internal moulds of fossil nautiloids often reveal a series of such lines marking the boundaries of the chambers — these are known as suture lines .
16 These are known as emollients and restore natural fats to the skin .
17 Some are undoubtedly produced when ropy strands or shreds of sticky lava are flung up out of the vent , twisting and turning slightly in the air before falling back to earth ; these are known as rope or ribbon bombs , and they may be as much as one metre long .
18 These are known as organic chemicals — which probably sounds like a contradiction in terms to anyone who buys ‘ organic ’ vegetables !
19 These are known as ‘ transferred cases ’ and account for the vast majority of appeals .
20 Aerobatic kites have vertical spars to tension the sail into its shape , and these are known as ‘ stand-offs ’ , or ‘ whiskers ’ , or ‘ sail stretchers ’ .
21 These are known as ‘ glosses ’ .
22 These are known as ‘ opportunistic infections ’ .
23 Record your wishes about medical treatment if you become terminally ill or incapacitated , including any wishes about specific medical procedures or investigations ( these are known as ‘ Advance Directives ’ )
24 Collectively these are known as the urodeles , " tailed ones " .
25 Three forms of data base construction can be applied to the handling of design information ; these are known as hierarchical , network and relational .
26 These are known as directly organized files .
27 These are known as laser discs because the signal is read by a laser beam which decodes variations in reflected light imprinted on the disc .
28 Arrestments can be lodged after Decree with employers and these are known as earnings arrestments .
29 These are known as ‘ Sites of Special Scientific Interest ’ ( SSSIs ) , and are defined by the Nature Conservancy Council ( NNC ) .
30 These are known as combination techniques , which teach a karateka to assemble basic movements in a series , or pattern , which may be used for defence or attack .
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