Example sentences of "is [adv] know [conj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It is now known that back in the ice age , glacial action had created a depression in the earth 's surface , in the area occupied by the field in which the seam was to outcrop .
2 It is well known that managers in general make very limited use of external publicly available information sources for strategic ( or , indeed , frequently for any other ) purposes .
3 It is well known that problems of identification are acute throughout the criminal law , and intent is also hard to prove in some cases .
4 It is well known that part of the price of IMF finance was curtailment of the government 's public expenditure plans , which was to increase the tension between the party leadership on the one hand and the left and the unions ( particularly in the public sector ) on the other , over subsequent years .
5 It may also be noted that if this method is employed then the first number chosen should be by random means rather than just ‘ saying a number between 1 and 10 ’ since it is well known that choices between these limits do not come out anything like randomly — the number 7 being particularly popular .
6 It is well known that products of the cyclo-oxygenase reaction , prostaglandins , and of the lipoxygenase reaction , leukotrienes , are increased in inflammatory bowel disease .
7 It is well known that filling of the gland with acinar should be avoided .
8 It is well known that responses to a stimulus presented off-centre will be faster when made by the limb on the same side of the body as the stimulus appears , that is , when stimulus and response are said to be compatible ( Fitts and Seeger , 1953 ) .
9 However , this is unlikely to cause any difficulties in the context of commercial operations : it is well known that documents of the kind on which standard terms of business are likely to be printed , such as orders , acknowledgments and delivery notes , commonly include contract terms .
10 It is well known that speakers of French have open to them a number of different ways of forming interrogatives ; for example , Coveney ( 1986 ) has distinguished five different variants of the wh interrogative , two of which are [ SVQ ] and [ QSV ] .
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