Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that much was written about the moral upbringing of children during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ; but this topic was itself clearly linked with the expectation of death , rather than with the hope of a balanced and integrated life . |
| 2 | At the time that Alpher , Bethe , and Gamow wrote their paper , not much was known about the nuclear reactions of protons and neutrons . |
| 3 | Until recently , little was known about the tiny and endearing Hector 's dolphin , found only in the coastal waters of New Zealand . |
| 4 | Little was known about the Algerian Hezbollah , although a group of that name had unsuccessfully applied for recognition as a political party in March 1990 . |
| 5 | Realization of how little was known about the likely effects of this demographic change led to the production of the first substantial body of data in this country on the experience of ageing in industry and on the relationship of work capacity to ageing : a highly polemical debate received some empirical clothing . |
| 6 | Einstein spent most of his later years unsuccessfully searching for a unified theory , but the time was not ripe : there were partial theories for gravity and the electromagnetic force , but very little was known about the nuclear forces . |
| 7 | The less that was known about the political officer 's activities , the less was understood about his responsibility for events . |