Example sentences of "know to [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Bingham Report recommended a statutory duty for auditors ‘ to report to the Bank any information or opinion which the auditor knows or should reasonably know to be relevant to a bank 's fulfilment of the criteria in Sch 3 of the 1987 [ Banking ] Act ’ ( ie the criteria for being licensed as a bank ) , auditors ' reactions varied from the totally relaxed to the slightly concerned , but no one positively opposed the change . |
| 2 | Well , note first of all that the various gases that are thought to have made up the early atmosphere contain most of the main elements that are known to be essential to life : carbon , nitrogen , sulphur , hydrogen , and oxygen — though the oxygen was not ‘ free ’ , but was combined for example with carbon in carbon monoxide . |
| 3 | The Italians , and indeed all foreigners , are known to be cruel to animals , thought Daisy , looking down to see if she could catch some peasant beating a horse or kicking a dog . |
| 4 | We wished to establish whether epitopes within this peptide are specific to those cereal prolamins known to be toxic to patients with coeliac disease . |
| 5 | Surely they only take place when the data 's known to be applicable to people . ’ |
| 6 | Reports in South Africa said a number of members of the Broederbond , the secret Afrikaner pressure group , were included in the talks , as well as individuals known to be close to Gerrit Viljoen , the Constitutional Planning Minister . |
| 7 | Dr de Klerk , who has acted as an adviser to the anti-apartheid Democratic Party , is known to be close to his brother , but politics is rarely on the agenda when they meet . |
| 8 | Finally , how did John Finnegan — known to be close to Smurfit — who was involved in both the UPH and Telecom purchases , fail to alert so important a client ? |
| 9 | The magazine Private Eye was more scathing , having already denounced the Thatcher and Bush governments for agreeing ‘ that they will not pursue any further the terrorists who bombed the plane over Lockerbie since they are known to be close to the Syrian government ’ ( 28 September 1991 ) . |
| 10 | On the same day Mohsin Siddiqi , an opposition senator known to be close to the MQM , was one of 15 people killed in Karachi by unidentified snipers . |
| 11 | According to the Paris-based Indian Ocean Newsletter other appointments to the 300-member assembly included a former communist , members of the opposition Umma Party and Democrat Unionist Party ( DUP ) , and people known to be close to former President Nemery , reflecting a desire by the regime to broaden its support in the face of the unrest unleashed by its economic reforms . |
| 12 | Movement in such species is known to be due to turgor changes in the specialised hinge-like regions of the leaf , known as pulvini . |
| 13 | Bonnet was known to be opposed to the government 's plans to restructure the army . |
| 14 | A substantial minority of shareholders is known to be opposed to a sale , feeling the company is worth at least £200 million . |
| 15 | Sandra , a full-time barrister and a mother of three , says some judges are known to be partial to women in wigs and gowns . |
| 16 | On these features are imposed several other psychological symptoms , many of which are known to be common to semistarvation , irrespective of its cause . |
| 17 | The diets of older people will often consist of foods favoured in their younger days , but which are now known to be deleterious to health . |
| 18 | Two of the deaths occurred in patients known to be sensitive to aspirin . |
| 19 | In this task , known to be sensitive to right hemisphere damage ( Kimura , 1963a ) , subjects were required to report the number of dots that were presented randomly in one or other visual field . |
| 20 | During March and April 1991 Denmark came under pressure from France to join the WEU , but while Poul Schlüter , the Prime Minister of a minority coalition , was known to be sympathetic to the idea , it was equally apparent that the largest party in parliament , the Social Democrats , would effectively rule out such a move . |
| 21 | During counterinsurgency operations government forces sometimes used rape and sexual abuse to try and extract information from women suspected of involvement with the armed opposition , or even to punish women merely for living in areas known to be sympathetic to insurgents . |
| 22 | War weariness was increasing the unpopularity of the Whigs , and although the Tories were happy with Queen Anne , the prospect of the succession of the House of Hanover , foreign Lutherans who were known to be sympathetic to the Whigs , was not particularly appealing to them . |
| 23 | Soya based formulas should only be used with medical advice when a baby is known to be allergic to cow 's milk formula , as soya protein is just as allergenic as cow 's milk . |
| 24 | My gardening activities are , perhaps , slightly unorthodox , in that I make a point of growing plants whose flowers are known to be attractive to insects , plant flowers and vegetables together , tidy and prune only as much as is absolutely necessary , encourage plants , even ‘ weeds ’ , that give continuous ground cover , and rigorously exclude poisonous chemicals . |
| 25 | I have occasionally been known to be kind to an old lady and I do n't kick every stray dog that comes across my path . ’ |
| 26 | In this new life which had been thrust upon her , she felt that she must surround herself with a little group of servants whom she knew to be loyal to her . |
| 27 | Mrs Huntley sighed ; her brother whom she had loved , but knew to be self-indulgent to a fault , had done his niece real harm by leaving so much of his money away from the girl who had confidently believed herself to be his favourite thing on earth . |