Example sentences of "known are " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the best known are the differences between ‘ larks ’ and ‘ owls ’ . |
| 2 | The Italians make wonderful blue cheeses of which the best known are Gorgonzola , from Lombardy , and Dolcelatte , which literally means sweet milk . |
| 3 | Probably the best known are rubella and phenylketonuria ( PKU ) which are preventable through immunisation and dietary treatment . |
| 4 | The oldest astronomical texts now known are found on the lids of wooden coffins dating from the Ninth Dynasty ( c.2150 BC ) . |
| 5 | It is this assumption , however , which is the basis of claims that the ‘ most distant quasars known are upwards of 10000 million light years away from us , receding at more than 90 per cent of the speed of light . |
| 6 | ‘ Young unknowns leap at the chance ’ , he says , ‘ and even the better known are always keen to get exposure outside the gallery world . |
| 7 | But the best known are the Arizona desert dwellers — the New Mexico spadefoot and Couch 's spadefoot . |
| 8 | Two of the best known are listed below . |
| 9 | The least well known are Trinidade and Madeira . |
| 10 | What can not be known are the thoughts or expectations in someone else 's mind . |
| 11 | The productivity and size of the work force involved and the rate at which undescribed species become known are clearly important factors . |
| 12 | There are however exceptions , of which the best known are the P 1 promoters of the E.coli rrnB and rrnD operons for rRNA . |
| 13 | Less well known are the various groups of explicitly anti-Darwinian evolutionists who developed alternative theories in the later part of the century . |
| 14 | Of the non-QTS qualifications , the best known are those developed by the Royal Society of Arts and now administered by the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate . |
| 15 | Less known are the inland regions , where single-track roads meander through stark valleys where vines , planted singly and each surrounded by a protective wall of lava rock , struggle to produce the excellent local vintages . |
| 16 | At its crudest this takes the form of the assumption that writing is automatically made beautiful through the addition of certain standardized linguistic ornaments ( ornatus in Latin ) of which the best known are the various poetic ‘ figures ’ , metaphor , antithesis , hyperbole and the like . |
| 17 | Several private-sector companies have specialized in the production of GIS ; among the best known are Arc-Info ( ESRI , USA ) , Intergraph ( Intergraph , USA ) , Informap ( Synoptics , USA ) , 1 2 S ( International Imaging Systems , USA ) , SPANS ( Tydac Technology Ltd , Canada ) , Sicad ( Siemens , Germany ) , METROPOLIS ( LaserScan Ltd. , UK ) and System 9 ( Prime Computers , USA and Wild Heerbrugg , Switzerland ) . |