Example sentences of "[noun] is [adv] known " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some species have been almost exterminated , e.g. Per.sea theobromifolia ( Lauraceae ) , formerly the ‘ mahogany ’ of Ecuador is now known from only 12 trees . |
| 2 | Whether the coffin-maker produced a bespoke outer case or took one from existing stock is not known , though logic argues in favour of the latter . |
| 3 | Given that a good deal is also known about how people successfully adapt to bereavement ( Parkes and Weiss , 1983 ) , a possible format for intervention programmes is already available . |
| 4 | A great deal is now known about such signals in a wide range of animals , from crabs and spiders to monkeys and humans . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the model does show that a good deal is now known about the illness , and this information provides both promising avenues for future research and implications for preventive intervention . |
| 6 | The environments are relatively constant , selective pressures are more or less identifiable , the amount of isolation is often known , and the entire set of interacting species is known . |
| 7 | The Cockerham trainer is well known for spreading his net far and wide in his search for success and tomorrow The Fernhill Flyer should keep the ball rolling in the Puma Claiming Stakes at Southwell . |
| 8 | The reader may think that the result is already known , but all too often different populations behave in different ways so that although there may be an expected result to an investigation it will not be a foregone conclusion . |
| 9 | The result is sometimes known as " half mens rea " . |
| 10 | Thus the metabolism of the vine is well known , and the interaction between it and the soil generally understood . |
| 11 | Ceolwulf left England himself in 796 in the company of the bishop of London ( ASC A , s.a. 794 ) but whether to go on pilgrimage or into exile is not known and he died the same year ( ASC D , s.a. 796 ) . |
| 12 | Though screening programmes for Duchenne muscular dystrophy have detected cases of Becker muscular dystrophy , whether all or any cases will be detected in this programme is not known . |
| 13 | The minority still have a right to object to the court but that opposition is usually known and dealt with before the bidder becomes committed to acquire any shares in the target . |
| 14 | Serum gastrin concentration is also known to be raised in patients with H pylori infection , and this is seen in the non-uraemic patients in the present study . |
| 15 | The history of their service to the Plantagenets and Lancastrians is well known . |
| 16 | Phage φ29 has a linear genome whose degree of supercoiling in the cell is not known , but it is probably lower than that of a plasmid . |
| 17 | The mediator for the action of ethanol on the parietal cell is not known . |
| 18 | The reason for this divergence is not known , but it may well be that the conditions used for DNaseI treatment do not allow the formation of stable complexes resistant to the action of the enzyme . |
| 19 | The principle of inverse irreversibility is often known by its more colloquial sobriquet as the ‘ Idiot child principle ’ , in deference to the long observed tendency of mothers to love best their least-promising offspring . |
| 20 | The example of the United States is well known : |
| 21 | Thus , a lease which contains a rent review clause will not be uncertain merely because the amount of the rent is not known at the date of the lease . |
| 22 | In tsxP2 , cAMP-CRP binds to two sites CRP-1 and CRP-2 in absence of CytR , and CytR binds to a site that overlaps extensively with CRP-1 in absence of cAMP-CRP ; the structure of the combined complex is not known in details ( 9 ) . |
| 23 | Similarly , if the sex of a referent is not known , the masculine rather than the feminine form is used . |
| 24 | The construction and development industry is best known for this and there were notable scandals in the 1970s which linked architects ( such as John Poulson ) , who were highly dependent on local authority orders , to key local politicians ( such as T. Dan Smith ) , who had some influence over their allocation . |
| 25 | Simultaneous records from the colon , however , have not yet been made , os that what happens to colonic pressures atthe time clustered contractions are present in the small bowel is not known . |
| 26 | The golist is sometimes known as a thesaurus and , indeed , is a form of natural language thesaurus . |
| 27 | Versace is best known for the razorsharp cut of his lightweight Cool Wool suits and for the baroque exuberance of his printed silk shirts , which combine cubist art with psychedelic putti and the goldwork of Cellini with Pop Art posters . |
| 28 | DEF is well known to us and would be a different sort of purchaser giving you the German influence . |
| 29 | The inventor of the German action is not known but it was used in a square piano signed ‘ Gottfried Silbermann , fevr. 1749 ’ This piano is more likely to have been made by Johann Gottfried Silbermann ( 1722–63 ) rather than by his more famous uncle , Gottfried ( 1683–1753 ) . |
| 30 | The place of 4-aminosalicylic acid in the treatment of ulcerative colitis is not clear , especially since its mechanism of action is not known . |