Example sentences of "[be] [adv] know that [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Husameddin 's argument , moreover , ignores the facts that Shams al-Din is known to have been part of Molla Fenari 's name but not , so far as can be discovered , of that of his son and that the son was regularly referred to as Mehmed Sah whereas it is not known that Molla Fenari ever was .
2 However , it is now known that UVA rays also have a profound effect .
3 But it 's now known that Mrs Law was last seen alive just after lunchtime on Sunday .
4 It is questionable whether the spaying of cows was widely practised at that time , but it is well known that London dairymen were only interested in a continuous milk supply .
5 It is well known that survey data is subject to a variety of sources of measurement error such as misreporting , recall errors and telescoping of past incidents to give a false historical record .
6 As for the directors of early-music ensembles , it is well known that David Munrow and Christopher Hogwood first met in Cambridge .
7 On the financial side , it is well known that airline pilots are amongst the best paid professions and until the redundancies of the early 1980s changed the picture somewhat remarkably few of their number were prepared to accept a civil servant 's salary after having enjoyed a very good standard of living .
8 Party chairman Chris Patten , who repeatedly urged caution , was not to know that Treasury forecasts of recovery were baseless .
9 ( He was not to know that Charles Olson , after next to no apprenticeship at all , would recklessly try to emulate him . )
10 When the plans were made it was not known that Myrtle Mott would be unable to teach during the year or that one of the days selected would coincide with an invitation for the N.D.T. to appear in Scotland .
11 It was also known that Mrs Thatcher 's closest advisers , Charles Powell and Bernard Ingham , were implicated in the leak , and it seemed improbable that the Prime Minister should have been totally ignorant .
12 It was also known that Douglas Wilder , the first black Governor of Virginia , was considering mounting a challenge which , with the probable absence of the Rev. Jesse Jackson from the contest , was likely to attract support from minority groups .
13 It was well known that Sir Dennis Rooke made it clear to the right hon. Member for Worcester ( Mr. Walker ) that the privatisation of gas should be on his terms , and those were the terms on which gas was privatised .
14 The clinching argument that Mr Dixon made about informing his father of his literary success was that probably Hank would need help in investing discreetly the earnings of the book , and it was well known that Mr Stych was an astute businessman .
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