Example sentences of "[adv] know [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But experts warned computer users that Friday 13th viruses are only a tiny proportion of the 30 or so known types of virus which exist , and that they would be wise to keep taking precautions . |
| 2 | He had only known Heather for a few weeks , after all , and may well have been deceived by the impression she had created in Rhodes ' alien environment . |
| 3 | Melissa was about to retort that as she had only known Bonard for three days he could hardly be described as a friend of hers , when a surprised , ‘ Well , what do you know ? ’ from Jack made them both glance round . |
| 4 | O. abyssicola closely resembles the holotype and only known specimen of O. granulifera Verrill : both have similarly shaped oral shields and ventral arm plates . |
| 5 | It was incredible but true — incredible because she 'd only known Fen for a week — incredible because she 'd begun by disliking him — but true that she was in love with him . |
| 6 | It was soon overtaken by the profounder and better known works of Bonaventure , Albertus Magnus , and Aquinas . |
| 7 | It was , though , his rather better known colleague at Caltech , Linus Pauling , who proposed that the principle to adopt was that of structures that maximise the number of so-called hydrogen bonds between different amino acids in the polypeptide chain ( and who thereby forged the key which very rapidly unlocked molecular biology ) . |
| 8 | In 1469 , during the reign of James III , Scotland was first described as an ‘ Impyre ’ — sixty-four years before the much better known claim of Henry VIII to the same effect . |
| 9 | The other characters were a sold-out leftie academic ( who drew much knowing laughter from the first-night audience ) , a right-wing academic , a military automaton , and an Amstrad word-processor which enigmatically took the floor in a central scene . |
| 10 | Some will already know Chris from his days at BTI . |
| 11 | Some will already know Chris from his Glasgow Bible College days . |
| 12 | Mrs Turpin did not know Bernard of Clairvaux 's observation , that the first step into pride is comparison , and the subsequent steps lead into a self-focused life . |
| 13 | ‘ Then you will not know Warwickshire at all ? ’ |
| 14 | Best known element of this operation is Air Atlantique , operators of a fleet of nine DC-3s and two DC-6s on specialist cargo and charter work anywhere they are required . |
| 15 | Magdalen Tower is probably the best known symbol of Oxford . |
| 16 | A Comedie Franaise actor , he joined the Underground and found his way to London and the B.B.C. to become one of the best known announcers on Les Franais Parient aux Franais , banned by the Nazis but heard throughout France . |
| 17 | But the plant 's best known activity as a manufacturer of water-cooled mainframes will stay firmly in the IBM fold and notionally expanded as the construction of air-cooled ES/9000s moves from Valencia in Spain , although the rate at which mainframe sales are falling suggests that this will be only a short-term boost . |
| 18 | For those who do n't know it , the Haute Route runs from Chamonix to Zermatt in the Alps and is one of the best known routes in Europe . |
| 19 | The form of mental handicap known as ‘ Down 's Syndrome ’ is undoubtedly the best known type of handicap in Britain today . |
| 20 | Priestley was the best known member of the ‘ 1941 Committee ’ . |
| 21 | One of the best known illustrations of inversion is the model on a Euclidean plane , such as this page , that the French mathematician Henri Poincaré made of the non Euclidean ‘ hyperbolic ’ plane , A Euclidean plane is one that obeys Euclid 's famous fifth postulate : in other words , given a line , and a point not on that line , only one other line in the plane ( a parallel to the first line ) can pass through the point and not meet the given line . |
| 22 | The sight of a Bullied pacific and standard tank bringing the sight and sound of steam back to one of the best known locations in the south was particularly attractive . |
| 23 | The other unusual and perhaps best known characteristic of Trolls is that their flesh is able to regrow almost as quickly as it is damaged . |
| 24 | The first part of this chapter will provide a definition of Prestel , the best known viewdata in the UK , give some background information , some of the reasons why school librarians should be concerned with Prestel and some of the questions raised through this involvement . |
| 25 | That is , the use of the royal prerogative as the legal backing for the management of the public service , the principle that a civil servant is a servant of the Crown and holds office at the pleasure of the Crown is one of the best known principles of constitutional law , hallowed by usage and sanctioned by the courts . |
| 26 | The Battle of Hastings , 1066 — probably the best known date in English History — was fought in the grounds of Battle Abbey . |
| 27 | THE best known story of the Labeque sisters in Edinburgh tells of a post-concert reception at the Caledonian Hotel . |
| 28 | The early part of the band 's career witnessed incredible international success , making them undoubtedly the best known exponents of rockabilly in the world — no mean feat for three guys just out of their teens . |
| 29 | The most eloquent and best known part of the Laws is book v , which contains Hooker 's defence of the liturgy and rites of the Church of England . |
| 30 | This is the best known part of Lochaber and indeed probably the best known part of the Highlands , familiar to most visitors to Scotland , featured in ballads and too often in newspaper headlines , a Mecca for adventurers and everywhere displaying spectacular scenery on a grand scale . |