Example sentences of "be know from [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A typical example are musical instruments , in particular lyres , which are known from four burials , Bergh Apton ( Norfolk ) , Morningthorpe ( Norfolk ) the well-furnished barrow burials of Sutton Hoo mound 1 and Taplow ( Bruce-Mitford 1970 ; Lawson 1978 ) .
2 Corals with this simple form are known from Ordovician to Carboniferous rocks , but there are differences in detailed structure .
3 Rhynchosaurs did not diversify — radiate — into so many different forms and niches as many other major groups of animals , but they are known from many parts of the world and they certainly did change and evolve with time .
4 Archaic Greek coins are found in hoards from Egypt and the Levant , as they were exchanged for goods , perhaps grain or slaves ; many hoards of Roman silver and gold coins are known from southern India because they were exchanged for luxury items such as exotic spices and perfumes , rich silks and precious gems .
5 Similar aged sites in Eurasia are also rare , but hominoids very similar to Kenyapithecus wickeri are known from 14 to 15Myr sites in Turkey , Pasalar and Candir , and Czechoslovakia and Austria ( Neudorf Sandberg and Klein Hadersdorf ) .
6 Whatever momentous steps they took in the Devonian , the lungfish and lobe fins have been very conservative since , for the living lungfish are clearly similar to their Palaeozoic relatives and coelacanth lobe fins like the living genus ( Latimeria ) are known from Cretaceous rocks .
7 A number of related fossil species are known from cretaceous rocks This species is from Cretaceous fish beds in Turga , Nertchinsk , Siberia .
8 But despite these problems the method receives powerful support from the practical comparison of the representation of coin issues in hoards and the size of those issues where they are known from mint records .
9 The Doric temple became early popular in the western colonies and many more sets of archaic metopes are known from this area than from the homelands .
10 tickets are known from intermediate stations .
11 The Dryopithecini are known from 12 to 8Myr deposits in France , Austria , Germany , Spain and Hungary , and similar fossils from Georgia through to China have also been attributed to this genus .
12 Large figurines mainly thrown on the potter 's wheel and decorated in vase-painter 's technique are known from several Greek sites in the late Bronze Age ; and this may be a line where we shall one day be able to trace continuity of production through the dark ages .
13 Such doors could have been secured by the use of a drawbar ; keys for the operation of such devices are known from some better provided for women 's graves .
14 Although both events are known from twelfth-century sources , they are likely to reflect genuine practice .
15 Some of the coarser ones have long been known from simple histological studies , but more recent mapping of the nerve tracts and individual axonal connections has required a variety of specialized techniques .
16 Projectile weapons had been known from Roman times , but much of the technology was redeveloped during the crusades .
17 But it has long been known from careful palaeontological studies that even in the thick development in the Cotswolds , there is evidence of two major breaks and a period of folding in what otherwise was a very peaceful period in British geological history .
18 Reformers often worked through sympathetic religious networks in the localities , the names of members of which were known from earlier years ; more important , petitions came increasingly from congregations and denominational organisations of an aroused dissent .
19 Kenyapithecus is known from middle Miocene sites such as Fort Ternan ( see above ) , about 14Myr , but the rest of the fossil record is restricted to a small number of indeterminate isolated teeth and fragmentary hominine jaws ( see below ) .
20 We next compare the range of past variations in solar irradiance implied by the best-fit values of β with what is known from other sources .
21 It is known from other work that economic and political attitudes and actions are channelled by the individual 's requirement for personal esteem and social approval .
22 Another witness of the charter to St Wandrille dated 1033 is King Henry I of France , who is known from other sources to have been briefly in exile with Robert at Fécamp , and according Edward the title " king of the English " would presumably have done Robert 's prestige no harm at all , as he would thus have been entertaining two exiled monarchs at the same time .
23 It is known from Egyptian history that , from 20 AD , a census of householders was taken every fourteen years .
24 In deriving more detailed criteria capable of being used , for example , to generate the required assessments , it is necessary to make use of what is known from previous research about pupils ' learning and attainment in the topic concerned .
25 However , it is known from ileal intubation studies that acarbose may induce carbohydrate malabsorption of up to 50% of the ingested carbohydrate , and that glucose absorption is least efficient from the most rapidly moving front of an ingested bolus of glucose .
26 The population base is known from 1801 ( with initial under-enumeration , see Wrigley and Schofield 1981 ) and in more detail from the first household-based census of 1841 .
27 It is known from occupational medicine , that exposure to two chemicals at once can be far more damaging than being exposed to each chemical individually .
28 In fact , what is known from these specified conditions is the attributes required .
29 The form of the Minoan town house is known from several ivory and faience plaques depicting house elevations .
30 Husameddin , however , writes that it was in Amasya , not Aksaray , that Molla Fenari studied with Cemaleddin Aksarayi , saying that it is known from several documents that Cemaleddin Aksarayi was , between 751 and 782 [ sic ] ( 1350–1 to 1380–1 ) , muderris in Amasya and kazasker under the emir of Amasya , Hajji Shadgeldi .
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