Example sentences of "[adv] is know " in BNC.

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1 These days much is known about the socio-economic composition of the population thanks largely to the national census .
2 The technique outlined below is known as progressive muscular relaxation and is one of the easiest to master .
3 Enough is known from archaeology to realise that in many cases chance finds of flint nodules or fragments provided the raw material for small tools .
4 Once the Proving picture is obtained then enough is known about the remedy to start using it in practice .
5 We know this because Anthony explicitly excludes information about attainment of the organization 's objectives ; he believes that not enough is known about measuring effectiveness to include it as a user need .
6 If they accept Anthony 's assertion that not enough is known about output measurement in non-business organizations , the conclusion of Drebin et al.
7 Only general conclusions can be drawn at present because not enough is known about the parameters involved in this model ; whether the Universe will expand forever or whether it will finally contract is not yet clear .
8 Although warming has been detected over the last few decades , scientists claim that not enough is known about the natural temperature variations of the region to be able to come to any conclusions .
9 The survey , carried out by Dr Helen McEwan and Dr Mary Campbell-Brown of Glasgow Royal Infirmary , reported that many women fear not enough is known about the long-term consequences .
10 In the years when this inexplicable phenomenon occurs — and it usually happens around Christmas , and so is known by the local fishermen as El Niño — the plankton suddenly vanish , the fish die and the birds fly away or are left to starve and rot .
11 Nothing further is known of the episode from contemporary sources .
12 Nothing further is known of him beyond a minor land acquisition in 1538 until , in 1540 , he suddenly emerged as a gentleman of Henry VIII 's privy chamber , a post he was to retain under the young Edward .
13 His father , according to Anthony Wood , was a shoemaker of Hereford , but nothing further is known of his parents , or of the date and place of his birth .
14 This technique of working with the sound turned off is known as silent viewing see Video Plan 3 in this chapter .
15 With both Rolle and Margery Kempe more is known precisely because both were articulate about adopting a life-style which answered to their spiritual needs .
16 Thus in one field the U- figure may be given a value of 90 per cent as take up is known to be very strong , while in another it is given a value of 25 per cent since only 1 in 4 of such applicants is thought likely to accept .
17 ‘ What I want now is to know who in the last month has been here to buy arsenic and belladonna ?
18 In the Seventies it became Tiffany 's , The Studio in the late Eighties , and now is known as The Ritzy .
19 About this time the Club was given its second trophy and which today is known as the Lovell Bowl .
20 The calendar in use today is known as the Gregorian or New Style , to distinguish it from the Julian or Old Style , and was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 .
21 In multimedia systems , the most successful type of interface today is known as the Graphical User Interface ( GUI ) .
22 what I 'm trying to help you practise , cos we 're not , we 're very good at asking closed questions in conversations but do n't very often recognize , but you know , we , we we we , we 'll zip backwards and forwards , and that 's okay , but I want you to do consciously is know what type of questions you 're asking because you can sometimes be hitting a brick wall and thinking I 'm getting anywhere here and it 's because you 're asking too many closed questions .
23 The difficulty factor here is knowing that the operation to perform using the calculator is division .
24 The type of meditation outlined here is known as REFLECTIVE MEDITATION .
25 Here is known as the retardation time and is a measure of the time delay in the strain after imposition of the stress .
26 The trick here is to know what you want to say and make sure that you say it .
27 Another one you may come across is known as ‘ snowball ’ sampling .
28 everything on there is known about that , just specific areas .
29 She tells me how her mum and dad know everything there is to know about fish , and tried to teach her .
30 Fairy Tales by Terry Jones ( Puffin , £1.95 ) CHRISTMAS BEST-SELLERS Based on last week 's sales in the children 's department of Waterstone 's in Edinburgh : 1 Rhyming Stew by Roald Dahl ( Jonathan Cape , £7.95 ) 2 Oi Get Off Our Train by John Burningham ( Jonathan Cape , £7.95 ) 3 Matilda by Roald Dahl 4 The Lion , The Witch and The Wardrobe by CSLewis ( Fontana Lion , £2.25 ) 5 Prince Caspian by CSLewis ( Fontana Lion , £2.25 ) 6 Almost Everything There Is To Know by Tim Hunkin ( Pyramid Books , £4.95 ) 7 The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter ( Frederick Warne , £20 ) 8 Budgie The Helicopter by HRHDuchess of York ( Simon & Schuster , £4.95 ) 9 The Way Things Work by David MacAuley ( Dorling Kindersley , £14.95 ) 10 Peace At Last by Jill Murphy ( Walker , £6.95 ) THE YEAR 'S BEST-SELLERS Supplied by Jane Churchill at Children 's Bookcentre in Kensington , London :
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