Example sentences of "be known about [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few facts are known about William Smith except that he was bound apprentice to Benjamin Slade in London in 1709 . |
| 2 | But if you made a list of the things that are known about Matthew , it would be very short : first , he was one of the twelve apostles ; second , he had been a tax-collector ; third , when he was converted , he gave a party for all his old friends ; fourth , there is a gospel which has his name on it . |
| 3 | The modes which he adopted were such as to licence elisions and lacunae , to enable him to leave out bits of his life — a procedure which would seem to be connected with his scepticism about what can be known about people by biographers . |
| 4 | 1991 , 27 , 145 ) that nothing seems to be known about Clara Taylor during the years 1921–26 , when she was headmistress of the Northampton School for Girls . |
| 5 | I mean there is quite a lot seems to be known about Wilson , and he himself , erm , wrote a lot in enormous correspondence and so on , and many of the points they make , are erm , are fairly well validated . |
| 6 | He was quoted as saying that without more being known about assessment in history it was difficult to register the true significance of what was being proposed . |
| 7 | What is known about Jane is that she lived in a cellar in Wisbech , earning her living by reaping in the fields in the summer and spinning wool and flax in the winter . |
| 8 | Little is known about cuckoos in their African winter quarters . |
| 9 | Of his ealdormen , a certain amount is known about Eadric of Mercia , who according to the late eleventh-century Worcester monk Hemming was nicknamed Streona — the Acquisitor . |
| 10 | Little is known about Philip Henry Thomas 's life and career before he settled down in Lambeth with his Newport-born wife Elizabeth , grand-daughter of Alderman William Townsend ( 1795–1877 ) on her father 's side and a sea-captain named Marendaz on her mother 's side . |
| 11 | Since then so many ethologists have studied these birds that more is known about dominance in hens than in any other species . |
| 12 | In fact , little is known about drought 's most likely victims , who often live beyond the reach of the aid workers ' vehicles . |
| 13 | This is never the best solution ; as pointed out above , the centre of the file is the logical position if nothing is known about hit pattern . |
| 14 | While the impact of deep recession after 1979 on the conurbations and inner cities has been widely recognised and researched , far less is known about conditions in those labour markets outside the main cities where one or two dominant companies have declared major redundancy programmes in the course of restructuring . |
| 15 | Most of what is known about Leapor derives from a letter by her friend and mentor , Bridget Freemantle , to a gentleman in London , probably John Duncombe though possibly John Blencowe . |
| 16 | If they accept Anthony 's assertion that not enough is known about output measurement in non-business organizations , the conclusion of Drebin et al. |
| 17 | There are two people in the world who know all that is known about Christabel LaMotte . |
| 18 | Sharing a home with relatives ( other than parents ) before marriage is another phenomenon which was more common in the past than in the present ( Anderson , 1971 ; 1980 ) Very little is known about circumstances under which young people now may go to live with a non-parental relative , although Gill Jones ( 1987 ) has shown that it still happens for a substantial number , especially those designated as working class on occupational criteria . |
| 19 | These four limitations of the research literature on mothers ' experiences of poverty — the lack of up-to-date evidence , the lack of data on women , the variability of measures of low income/poverty , and the eclipsing of ‘ race ’ and other dimensions of difference among women — set limits on what is known about mothers in low-income households . |
| 20 | Much more is known about Ealdred that most Anglo-Saxon churchmen , partly because both the ‘ D ’ version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Chronicon attributed to Florence of Worcester [ q.v. ] were written in his former dioceses not long after his death . |
| 21 | Nothing is known about Smythson 's marriage , but his son John Smythson ( d . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , very little is known about Brough , Dorn , Willoughby and Bourton , and defences have yet to be proven for the latter pair . |
| 23 | Much is known about Bath , where the hot springs were almost certainly venerated in the pre-Roman Iron Age . |
| 24 | Nothing is known about Purney 's early education except that he spent a year at Merchant Taylors ' School . |
| 25 | Comparatively little is known about memory for complex movements . |
| 26 | Partly because it is not routinely recorded , relatively little is known about cohabitation and the extent to which it may become an ordinary setting for childbearing before or instead of marriage . |
| 27 | Very little is known about wages and prices or the standard of living before the Industrial Revolution : this project aims to explore some of this ground by the systematic collection of data from estate records , tax rolls , JPs ' records , merchants ' papers and other sources . |
| 28 | Much less is known about children with only mild illness . |
| 29 | In this chapter , we will look at what is known about children 's use and understanding of explanations . |
| 30 | The analysis needs to be related to what is known about children 's learning and the curriculum experienced by the pupils . |