Example sentences of "[conj] it is [adv] [adv] known " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is also well known that the so-called expert witness in court may be a hired gun , willing to testify to anything for a fee , or a crackpot whose unsupportable ideas are masked by an advanced degree — often from a respectable university . |
| 2 | Easily Accessible : Banbury lies on the edge of the Cotswolds and is therefore ideally situated for walking , but it is probably best known for both the nursery rhyme ‘ Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross , To see a fine lady , upon a white horse ’ and for its special cakes made from a 300-year old recipe . |
| 3 | The interactionist perspective ( as it is most familiarly known ) proved in the end to be unable to incorporate all the radical demands that came to be made of it . |
| 4 | The large unit known as the syssel , a subdivision of the country broadly similar to the English shire , is in Jutland believed to be pre-Christian , although its function is something of an open question , as it is now best known in connection with later ecclesiastical organisation . |
| 5 | An alternative approach which has a number of advantages over linear control systems , is the switching regulator , or as it is more usually known , the ‘ switch-mode power supply ’ . |
| 6 | Tax to pay for our holidays abroad , or Government in exile as it is more appropriately known , will be raised from the equitable basis of rating taxes at the point of sale , or in the case of blue tax , see above , conspicuous consummation . |
| 7 | It is of course acknowledged that the new TransAction scheme ( or the National Protocol as it is more commonly known ) does not apply to commercial transactions , or indeed to transactions involving building or farmland . |