Example sentences of "[adv] known to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is reasonable to assume that the carer 's preference provides some part of the causal explanation ; but it is also likely that the carers ’ preferences were influenced by the severity of the sufferer 's condition , and by whether long-term institutional care was expected , already planned , or already known to be unlikely . |
| 2 | That 's a point , erm first person I 've ever known to be bored with last night at the . |
| 3 | The fear of the effects of war had been diminished by the quick struggles of the mid-century decades , but warfare was still known to be expensive and the Paris Commune had revived old fears that war might bring revolution . |
| 4 | Most people , indeed , are unwilling to talk of ‘ crime ’ when they discuss breach of pollution regulations : this sort of language is considered appropriate only where clearly blameworthy conduct exists — where there is a calculated breach of regulation , or where the polluting substance concerned is widely known to be dangerous and there was carelessness or recklessness in handling it . |
| 5 | In 1858 Wallace ( who had also read Malthus ) hit upon the idea of natural selection and wrote up an account , which he sent to Darwin , who was widely known to be interested in the species question . |
| 6 | Doctor Maingay was fifty if she was a day but was widely known to be unmarried . |
| 7 | Since the function of the is to identify something which is contextually known to be unique , it tends to signal continuity on a contextual , rather than textual level : Lawrence makes a pretence of shared knowledge with the reader , who by implication is already familiar with the surroundings , is already an inhabitant of the fictional world . |
| 8 | This is now known to be impossible . |
| 9 | Attica could not satisfy the needs of a standing navy , and inscriptions show that Athens got cypresses from Knidos in Asia and Karpathos in the Dodecanese ( Tod 110 , now known to be fifth-century not fourth ) . |
| 10 | Both this cluster of disease and another cluster in Slovakia are now known to be genetic in origin and associated with a missense mutation at codon 200 of the prion protein gene causing substitution of lysine in place of glutamate at residue 200 of the prion protein ( inherited prion disease ( PrP lysine 200 ) ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If anything , it was rather suspicious that the first assay should produce an answer so apt ; the prognostics of bishops were often known to be ambiguous in the extreme . |
| 13 | Conditions at sea were well known to be squalid and comfortless , wages beggarly , food too often no more than salt beef and weevilly biscuit , while officers were often no more than petty tyrants . |
| 14 | I now had the distinct impression that headvoice had been right all the time , that it was in fact down to me , or rather the old ‘ guilty conscience ’ ( which is well known to be capable of playing up without proper cause ) , playing tricks with my head . |
| 15 | p53 mutants are well known to be capable of cellular immortalisation , and act as nuclear oncogenes in a manner similar to c-myc . |
| 16 | The official figures showed the party membership to be around 650,000 ; the real figures were well known to be far below that number , possibly below 300,000 , with an undue proportion being middle-class activists who had taken over old and decaying working-class parties or management committees . |
| 17 | The symptoms of the illness itself , and the way in which these affect the carer , are well known to be difficult ( see Gilleard , 1984 ; Sanford , l975 ) . |