Example sentences of "[det] be [verb] about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When viewed at high magnification with an optical microscope or scanning electron microscope , much is revealed about the plating technique which is simply not visible on the surface of the object . |
| 2 | Much is written about the slowness , uncertainty and perverseness of the planning system and there is no shortage of examples . |
| 3 | Much is known about the metal artefacts produced in the British Bronze Age , but until recently very little was known of the copper sources exploited ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 4 | A Bank spokesman claims that " not much is known about the relationship between macroeconomic measures and environmental impact . " |
| 5 | Not much is known about the course of the Council , although there are two surviving eye-witness accounts , one of which describes all the razzmatazz of a great occasion — crowds , the pope on a dais , festivities , the day-long ceremony of the re-dedication of St Maria in Trastevere , the processions with flags , flares and lights . |
| 6 | Before much was known about the structure , trivial names were the only way to identify compounds . |
| 7 | Even less is known about the assessment of efficiency in family practitioner services . |
| 8 | However , rather less is known about the operation of these committees , or the reasons for their introduction or revitalisation . |
| 9 | Less is known about the role of other kinases in LTP . |
| 10 | Even less is known about the usefulness of books which are located and borrowed , and it is quite likely that many of the titles thought to have answered a subject enquiry are not in fact found by the reader to be very useful at all . |
| 11 | More is said about the subject of safety in the ALs of working and playing . |
| 12 | More is said about the importance of visiting on page 279 . |
| 13 | Get togethers , huddles , working parties , visits , chats and the like , become the occasions when more is learned about the school . |
| 14 | Apart from his name nothing more is known about the publisher other than he lived in the village and the preservation society are hoping local people reading the re-print will be able to give more details . |
| 15 | Nothing more is known about the proposal , and by 1859 the company were no longer operating from there . |
| 16 | He said he would seek a meeting with senior planning officers to establish if anything more is known about the company behind the proposal . |
| 17 | More is known about the process of integration in bacterial cells , and a plausible mechanism has been constructed . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , a reliable treatment of this sort will be impossible to devise until more is known about the gut flora . |
| 19 | Because so much more work has been done and so much more is known about the business way of accounting , having alternative methods leads to confusion . |
| 20 | May I say that it seems incredible that , in the light of all that is known about the unreliability of uncorroborated confessions in police custody , there should be those in Northern Ireland who are attempting to defend that practice in relation to the notorious Castlereagh ? |
| 21 | And what grades do not do is tell all that is known about the student 's performance or abilities . |
| 22 | Although substantial information has recently accumulated on how IL-6 interacts with two distinct receptor molecules on the surface of target cells ( 15–16 ) , as yet very little is understood about the signal transduction pathway which mediates its effects . |
| 23 | Very little is revealed about the impact of these changes on the social life and social relations of farm families and farm communities . |
| 24 | But so little is agreed about the cause of the disorder that endogenous opiates may well be involved . |
| 25 | When so little is known about the firing technology it is difficult to generalise ; the Cassington kiln was a type of updraught kiln similar to Roman types . |
| 26 | In addition other researchers ( Raggatt and Weiner , 1985 ; Ribbins , 1985 ; Shipman , 1985 ) express the view that little is known about the initiation and progress of policy making in LEAs . |
| 27 | Very little is known about the way such dialogues are sustained . |
| 28 | Little is known about the history of these crops ; their domestication is thought to have occurred in the African savannah , but the date and precise location are unknown . |
| 29 | Emily Grundy ( 1986 ) has rightly stressed how little is known about the epidemiology and aetiology , let alone prevention and treatment , of some of the major disorders affecting the very old , such as dementia . |
| 30 | Yet little is known about the influence parents , brothers and sisters have upon young people 's social identities . |