Example sentences of "[conj] it is [adv] known [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is not known for certain whether Yazid was present at Karbala , he is cast by the Shiites as the author of the incident , and the name is to this day a favourite Shiite epithet for a Sunni adversary — it was used in this sense during the 1980s war by the Tehran leadership when referring to that in Baghdad . |
| 2 | It will continue to fall this year and next year and I think that it is well known to everybody that this Government 's policy is to lower taxes , in contrast with the plans of the hon. Gentleman 's party . |
| 3 | The ancient Dwarf hold of Karak Ungor has become so infested with Night Goblins that it is now known as Red Eye Mountain . |
| 4 | So , after lunching at one of the excellent local inns , we contented ourselves with making a wide sweep South to the River Dove and back up to the Derwent , — stopping at Castleton which , with its show caves and fluorspar ( Blue John stone ) mines should n't be missed and at Eyam which was so badly ravaged by the pestilence of 1665/6 that it is still known as The Plague Village . |
| 5 | So , after lunching at one of the excellent local inns , we contented ourselves with making a wide sweep South to the River Dove and back up to the Derwent , — stopping at Castleton which , with its show caves and fluorspar ( Blue John stone ) mines should n't be missed and at Eyam which was so badly ravaged by the pestilence of 1665/6 that it is still known as The Plague Village . |
| 6 | The scarlet pimpernel is so sensitive that it is often known as the Poor Man 's Weather Glass . |
| 7 | Damage was also very great in the mustelid samples , but in the one good sample from the pine marten the bones were less modified than in the canid samples , and it is not known at present which pattern is more typical of mustelids . |
| 8 | " Many property groups have recently been in difficulties , and it is generally known in the City that the Ingard group has not been doing well . |
| 9 | It then reverted to the church , not without some controversy , and it is now known as the church rooms . |
| 10 | Edmund Becke 's 1549 revision of the so-called ‘ Matthew ’ version ( Thomas Matthew being a fictitious name adopted to cover the true identity of the translator ) was also a Bug Bible ; but it is also known as the ‘ Wife-beater Bible ’ because of Becke 's annotation at I St. Peter iii.7 . |
| 11 | This gives what Lord Wright calls the " datum figure " , but it is also known as the annual dependency or the multiplicand . |
| 12 | Its hillside position is exceptional and its views of the surrounding countryside entrancing , but it is best known among Italians as the place gentle Saint Francis is said to have tamed a mean , ferocious wolf which had been terrorising locals . |
| 13 | You probably already know what a larva is because it is also known as a caterpillar . |
| 14 | North sea operators are given dispensations , not only when there are equivalent or higher alternative arrangements in place but in some cases when it is well known to the authorities that the platforms are operating at a level that would not be allowed if they were completely new platforms . |
| 15 | I have consulted the most celebrated authors on comparative anatomy , but do not find any such structures of those parts described ; and as it is not known to you , I may presume that it has not been before taken notice of . |
| 16 | By this time , Edinburgh had emerged as the recognized centre of " the Female Question " ( as it is always known in the union literature ) . |
| 17 | It may have had a more sinister purpose later , as it is now known as The Whipping Stone . |