Example sentences of "[det] be [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not much is known about the political attitudes of unemployed people . |
| 2 | We know a bit more about their massive pay increases , but not so much is known about the beautiful profits , about the wonderful conditions that they 've allocated to themselves . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At the time that Alpher , Bethe , and Gamow wrote their paper , not much was known about the nuclear reactions of protons and neutrons . |
| 5 | And I expect , ’ she added with a twinkle , ‘ that before long they 'll all be talking about the little English girl who 's staying at the Hall . ’ |
| 6 | Rather more is known about the similar outbreak in the fifteenth century , Jack Cade 's rebellion of 1450 . |
| 7 | It is futile to inquire into the causation of verbal behaviour until much more is known about the specific character of this behaviour ; and there is little point in speculating about processes of acquisition without much better understanding of what is acquired . |
| 8 | More is known about the possible costs of curbing output of carbon dioxide , the main greenhouse gas . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , as more is learnt about the molecular details of viral infections , points at which viruses might be vulnerable to selective attack are being uncovered . |
| 10 | But can the same be said about the social world ? |
| 11 | Relatively little is known about the cellular events dictating differentiation in humans . |
| 12 | But little is known about the chemical ‘ soup ’ of the oceans , and therefore the type of life that first became selected and concentrated there and which would have been different from that occurring , say , in rivers or stagnant pools . |
| 13 | Little is known about the key processes which fix land values and lead to land valorisation as urban development occurs . |
| 14 | Every Scot knows at least part of the story of the massacre , but many are not aware of the background that led up to the atrocity and too little is known about the heinous wickedness of some of the characters involved . |
| 15 | As a consequence , very little is known about the first thousand years of Imperial history . |
| 16 | Little is known about the religious beliefs of the earlier natives , and the sparse information that survives about the Saxon traditions comes from the hardly objective pens of monastic writers . |
| 17 | Little is known about the actual velocity profiles of winds near the surfaces of stars , so we can not pursue this further . |
| 18 | Thus , despite a growing knowledge of the interaction of CytR with its cognate promoters , little is known about the specific CytR-DNA interactions . |
| 19 | Little is known about the evolutionary relationships between the TMP resistant DHFRs , and full biochemical characterisation may be required to resolve ambiguities says Towner . |
| 20 | Elsewhere , the relationships are more difficult to define , usually because too little is known about the individual sites ; examples include the extensive industries of Brockley Hill and Mancetter-Hartshill , while Dorchester-on-Thames also lay on the fringes of the kiln area producing Oxford wares . |
| 21 | While much has been written about that industry as a whole , relatively little is known about the individual firms in it . |
| 22 | In fact , relatively little is known about the various influences on teachers ' classroom practice and the extent to which these are similar in different countries . |
| 23 | With the exception of a few large-scale programmes ( Giaretto , 1982 ; Sgroi , 1982 ) and a single case study ( Kolko , 1986 ) , little is known about the suggested success of specific approaches . |
| 24 | Although divorce is affecting an increasing number of people , little is known about the longer term social and economic effects of the financial arrangements made at the time of divorce . |
| 25 | Equally little is known about the urban cemeteries which must exist , except for two inhumations found in 1920 near the main road leading south from the crossroads . |
| 26 | Nevertheless very little is known about the social and economic significance of different enforcement methods , the direct and indirect expense of the enforcement machinery and the impact of different enforcement procedures on debtors and their families . |
| 27 | In contrast , little is known about the biochemical cascades that are triggered by the permeation of Ca 2+ through open NMDA channels and which lead to the persistent enhancement of synaptic efficiency . |
| 28 | The natural history of cervical cancer among older women is uncertain , but ‘ that little is known about the natural history of cancer of the cervix does not seem to have been an obstacle to the introduction of screening programmes for younger women . ’ |
| 29 | This division between the life-styles of men and women is well documented , but little is known about the precise form or effect of housework attitudes . |
| 30 | Little is known about the lipid metabolism in gastric mucosal cells and its relation to the cellular function ; therefore , studies are required to determine the specific role of total mucosal phospholipids in gastric secretion and cytoprotective action . |