(imp. & p. p.) Could; was able; knew or known; understood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thereafter she took what she could get on screen, a reliable member of the Dickens-and-other-period-pieces squad in The Old Curiosity Shop (1979), David Copperfield (1999); Les Misérables (1998); and – a fine creation – the 19th-century traveller Fanny Trollope, complaining about a squalid lack of couth in America, in a 1992 TV series.
Known
Definition:
(p. p.) of Know
(p. p.) of Know.
Example Sentences:
(1) National policy on the longer-term future of the services will not be known until the government publishes a national music plan later this term.
(2) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(3) Low birth weight, short stature, and mental retardation were common features in the four known patients with r(8).
(4) Ethanol and L-ethionine induce acute steatosis without necrosis, whereas azaserine, carbon tetrachloride, and D-galactosamine are known to produce steatosis with varying degrees of hepatic necrosis.
(5) Although measurements are easily obtained with a tape measure, the validity of these measurements is not known.
(6) From these data it is possible to predict theoretically the apparent temperature difference as seen by an infrared scanner or radiometer with a detector of which the spectral detectivity, D (lambda), is known.
(7) They broke in with a battering ram: an armoured vehicle known as a Bearcat.
(8) Infection with opportunistic organisms, either singly or in combination, is known to occur in immunocompromised patients.
(9) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
(10) PBOP was as effective as polymyxin B nonapeptide (PMBN), the known very potent permeabilizer.
(11) Angle closure glaucoma is a well-known complication of scleral buckling and it is of particular interest when it occurs in eyes with previously normal angles.
(12) It is a place that occupies two thirds of our planet but very little is known of vast swaths of it.
(13) It has 61% homology with tRNA(Leu)(anticodon m5CAA) and 63% homology with tRNA(Leu)(anticodon UAG), the two other known yeast tRNAs(Leu).
(14) The mtRF-1 could translate all of the known termination codons in the rat mitochondrial genome.
(15) Groups of inbred female mice of strains CBA or C3H were infected genitally with a pathogenic human strain of Chlamydia trachomatis (N.I.1, serovar F) known to produce salpingitis and infertility in mice.
(16) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
(17) The method used in connection with the well known autoplastic reimplantation not only presents an alternative to the traditional apicoectomy but also provides additional stabilization of the tooth by lengthing the root with cocotostabile and biocompatible A1203 ceramic.
(18) These results do not support the view that in the rat pheromones from adult males enhance puberty in females, contrary to what is known to happen in the mouse.
(19) The only localized tumors known to produce elevation of CEA above the levels observed in non malignant diseases are carcinomas of the large bowel and the pancreas.
(20) This condition may be caused by the prolonged, repetitive elevations of gonadal steroids and other hormones known to suppress gonadotropin-releasing hormone secretion that are elicited by their daily exercise.