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be known to exist
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Seven copies of the original book are still known to exist.
best known
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He’s perhaps best known for his role in ‘Midnight Cowboy’.
better known
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Potter is better known for his TV work.
collectively known as
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Rain, snow, and hail are collectively known as precipitation.
for reasons best known to sb (= used when you do not understand someone’s behaviour )
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For reasons best known to herself, she decided to sell the house.
formerly known as
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Kiribati, formerly known as the Gilbert Islands
generally regarded/accepted/known etc
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The plants are generally regarded as weeds.
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a generally accepted view
internationally famous/recognized/known etc
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an internationally famous sculptor
known to man
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This is one of the worst diseases known to man.
little known/understood etc (= not known about by many people )
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a little known corner of the world
no known cure
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At present is there is no known cure for this virus.
popularly known as
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is popularly known as the Mormon Church.
sb/sth has never been known to do sth (= used to say that something is strange because it has never happened before )
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Max had never been known to leave home without telling anyone.
variously described as/known as/called etc sth
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the phenomena variously known as ‘mass culture’, ‘popular culture’, or the ‘public arts’
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I might have known/guessed etc
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All those years I might have known her!
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Although I might have known you'd arrive just as drinks were being ordered!
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Dear little Papa, as I might have known!
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If you'd had a big fat bottom I might have guessed.
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It was nothing I might have guessed.
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Of course, I might have known that you'd have some clever way of dealing with everything, though.
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Ooh! I might have known it!
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Some years before, I might have guessed Bond's enigmatic presence in the scene.
I've known sb/sth to do sth
if (the) truth be known/told
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After all, I am not so different from anyone else, if the truth be known.
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He could never, if the truth were told, stand against his wife.
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He looked lonely, if the truth were told.
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I bet they did it worse than us if the truth was known.
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I puzzle a lot, if the truth be known.
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I suppose if the truth was known, I was narked at being pushed around.
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Nearly thirteen and a half if the truth be known.
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You'd rather have a day out at York racecourse than at Headingley if truth were known, wouldn't you?
let it be known/make it known (that)
make yourself heard/understood/known etc
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As we will soon see, the inability to make oneself understood properly was at the root of the crisis in Vicos.
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But only one side was making itself heard.
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Hardly a practicable solution when she didn't even know if she could make herself understood.
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He makes himself known with a tiny, metallic clink-clink-clink from within the bushes.
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I yelled to make myself heard above the deafening roar of the wind and the sea.
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To leave was to admit defeat in this peculiar ritual of making myself known.
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Yet lay people had almost no way of making themselves heard in Rome.
make yourself known (to sb)
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He makes himself known with a tiny, metallic clink-clink-clink from within the bushes.
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Jaq daydreamed about a subsequent year when Baal Firenze had first made himself known .
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My superior self was working out a way to approach and make myself known .
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To leave was to admit defeat in this peculiar ritual of making myself known .
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With that you will make yourself known .
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Your five minutes only start when you make yourself known .
otherwise known as
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Global warming is otherwise known as the greenhouse effect.
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Area 17, for example, is otherwise known as the primary visual area.
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During that pilgrimage, they lived in tents and booths, otherwise known as sukkot.
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It is otherwise known as delegated legislation.
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It was a control on monetary hanky-panky, otherwise known as inflation.
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The best explanation for this is the so-called rebound effect, otherwise known as acute tolerance.
sb/sth is not known to be sth
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This species is not known to be vicious.
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It is not known to be propagated vegetatively at all and can only be reproduced from seeds.
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■ ADVERB
best
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Pecorino, Feta and Manchego are the best known of the remaining ewes' milk cheeses.
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One of the best known is Richard Long.
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The best known is County Pot.
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Malaria: discovery by committee Perhaps the best known of all recent antimalarial drugs is chloroquine.
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Pat Young is one of the province's best known fashion mavericks.
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The best known of them was Dornford Yates, author of the now unreadable but once hugely read Berry and Co stories.
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Bracken is probably the best known of the ferns.
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The topic of sexism in language is probably the best known of all feminist linguistic concerns.
better
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His career shows many parallels with that of the better known Charles Turner Thackrah, but evidence of association is lacking.
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In addition, prefixes are used to indicate that a particular rug was woven by a sub-group of a better known major group.
commonly
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Here are some of the most commonly known services.
internationally
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The 48-year-old professor, an internationally known languages expert and former vice-chancellor of Essex University, is due in court in October.
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I am credited as the internationally known journalist and writer.
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Several of the professors were internationally known figures who lectured to large audiences and engaged in public debates over controversial issues.
little
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But it is not so easy for the new or little known candidates.
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Although they are little known and infrequently seen, they are enormously abundant.
well
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There are at least five well known approaches: 1 Tell and sell.
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The opening was a well known variation of the Ruy Lopez.
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Other even less well known players?
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Sainsbury's were well known Wholesale Grocers with a head office at Trowbridge.
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There followed the address of a well known gentlemen's club in Victoria.
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Joseph Haydn, whom he revered above all other contemporaries; and a few others less well known today.
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There are 1446 main shopping areas covering all well known centres down to the level of small local centres.
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Despite this problem we found only the well known associations between endometriosis and age and parity.
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address
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Patients were contacted at their last known address .
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General Accident may cancel this policy by sending seven days notice by recorded delivery to your last known address .
fact
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His little screen recapitulates the few known facts .
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It is a well known fact that designers plant a line of bollards when they do not know what to do.
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It is a generally known fact that here our bow is at a very high tension.
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The proceedings taken under these Acts provide many of the known facts concerning enclosures and depopulation.
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Much of this chapter is hypothesis, but hypothesis based on known facts .
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It's a well known fact , however, that good design lasts for ever.
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Any obscuring of the world as the known facts show it objectively to be betrays a weakness in me.
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This is supposedly a well known fact in certain circles.I heard it from a segment of this circle.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a known drug dealer
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It was also in Edessa that the oldest known church was built, then destroyed in A.D. 201.
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Pat Young is one of the province's best known fashion mavericks.
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These are the truly intractable pains and they are called intractable because they respond to no known form of therapy.
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This work organised the known theory of permutation groups and its relationship with Galois Theory.
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Typically for the period the quantity of finished products is far greater than the known examples of production sites.
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What might be acceptable would be to sample known previous offenders.