Example sentences of "[noun prp] [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 famous enter in droves : those like Richard Ingrams , Keith Waterhouse , Michael Grade , Auberon Waugh , Jeffrey Archer , Cecil Parkinson , Sue Lawley and Jilly Cooper are known to most people .
3 Several recent or forthcoming operas sound as if they were designed for — or perhaps by — what in Soho are known as people of strange and unusual tastes .
4 Almost 80 per cent of the female seals in the Baltic are known to be sterile , primarily as a result of PCB poisoning , and by the year 2000 , grey seals in the Baltic may well have become extinct .
5 The particular bindings associated with Edwards are known as ‘ Etruscan ’ , usually of calfskin and decorated with classical motifs from vases and other ornaments .
6 Northwich , Middlewich and Nantwich , as well as Droitwich in Hereford and Worcester , were all known to the Romans for their salt deposits , and several ancient routes across Britain are known as ‘ salt ways ’ because salt was carried on them in trains of packhorses to the far corners of the kingdom .
7 A few other fossil species of Rhus are known from the Tertiary rocks .
8 The camps of Mordovia are known of by all citizens .
9 These Goblin are known as Doom Divers , although it is usual for other ( saner ) Goblins to call them bat-winged loonies .
10 The windows in the NIR are known to be predominantly controlled by water absorption bands , but oxygen and carbon dioxide also have some influence .
11 Madonna and Harrison Ford are known to be devotees of the sandal .
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