Example sentences of "[is] known of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's one of the most famous names in fashion but little is known of the man himself . |
| 2 | Little is known of the general effects of oil on the distribution of small cetaceans . |
| 3 | Something is known of the physical nature of the change in the synapse . |
| 4 | Nothing is known of the scores . |
| 5 | Little is known of the activities at Pitts Mill ; presumably it was run in conjunction with its neighbour . |
| 6 | Little is known of the visit other than that Mozart appeared before the Bavarian Elector Maximilian III Joseph . |
| 7 | Little is known of the history of the tower , which is part of a late 13th-century fortified manor house , but the remarkable paintings — ranging from biblical subjects to scenes of everyday rural life — tell a fascinating story of their own . |
| 8 | Little is known of the inhabitants of the old manor house with its interesting architecture in the centre of the village , but the oddly named Hanging Grimston is within the parish , and here the Bouchier family lived in what must have been a grand castle with cottages nearby , and owned much land . |
| 9 | Little is known of the ‘ cottage countess ’ but there is no evidence of her surprise at seeing Burghley House , or her supposed decline under the aristocratic social pressures which Tennyson alludes to . |
| 10 | What this amounts to , in Corder 's words , is ‘ the accommodation of the structure of our linguistic syllabuses and teaching materials to fit what is known of the sequence of progressive complication of the approximative systems of the free learner . ’ |
| 11 | They seem to be inconsistent with what is known of the laws of nature . |
| 12 | Less is known of the Dani 's fate , but let us suppose that Whitley 's worst fears are justified ( 1989 : 18 ) . |
| 13 | Relatively little is known of the first great temples , which were built between 2000 and 1900 BC and destroyed by earthquakes in 1700 BC , except that they stood on the same sites as the later temples . |
| 14 | LITTLE is known of the interdecadal variability in the thermohaline circulation of the world 's oceans , yet such knowledge is essential as a background to studies of the effects of natural and anthropogenic climate change . |
| 15 | These molecules are involved in low-affinity homophilic and/or heterophilic recognition , but little is known of the physical basis for these interactions . |
| 16 | Instead , they reflect how little is known of the demographic processes ( such as root mortality ) that control below-ground carbon and nutrient cycling , and the relationship between root demography and the soil environment . |
| 17 | Little is known of the ecological context of the afropithecin fossils , but while the best record is again from Maboko Island , there is some doubt about the ecological interpretation of this site . |
| 18 | The civil zone still poses many difficult problems of chronology in the framework of what is known of the historical narrative . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , little is known of the south wing , but it has a very similar appearance to that of the north side and suffers from the disadvantage of facing north , which precludes any possibility of the best accommodation being situated there . |
| 20 | There is still much debate as to the necessity of using toxic doses of interleukin-2 : little is known of the precise mechanism by which it causes tumour regression , and many healthcare professionals seem reluctant to change from protocols that have shown some benefit in terms of survival and tumour response . |
| 21 | This reading of events gains some support from what little is known of the council 's role during April , before Gloucester and the prince reached London . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , after the Romans left in the 4th century , very little is known of the inhabitants of the area until the arrival of the Normans in the 11th century . |
| 23 | Again , a priori , we assume nothing is known of the nature of A , so that the process of finding the dominant eigenvalue and its vector is approached as usual by iterating with A on an arbitrary column co . |
| 24 | In any case , the Marko of the epic poems bears little resemblance to what is known of the historical character whose name he bears . |
| 25 | Of those families with documented familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy , however , only about half have identifiable mutations related to the β-myosin heavy chain gene , and little is known of the incidence of genetic abnormalities in non-familial cases . |
| 26 | Little is known of the relative efficacy and toxicity of different strains . |
| 27 | Nothing further is known of the episode from contemporary sources . |
| 28 | Very little is known of the ecology or adaptations of periantarctic beetles , grass aphids or thrips . |
| 29 | Although reasonable surmises may be made concerning the effect of various properties of the coast on erosion , little is known of the precise effects which they have . |
| 30 | Little is known of the Palace during the first hundred years . |