Example sentences of "[pron] is known about [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Comprehensive evaluation of company performance over these broader activities is not available , but the little which is known about individual companies suggests that financial objectives were more important than they might appear on the surface .
2 At present little or nothing is known about these patients .
3 It was possible to establish plausible relationships between what is known about normal language acquisition , especially learning to read , and what is known about developmental disorders of language , especially developmental dyslexia .
4 It was possible to establish plausible relationships between what is known about normal language acquisition , especially learning to read , and what is known about developmental disorders of language , especially developmental dyslexia .
5 Most of what is known about acute aluminium poisoning comes from studying patients treated for kidney failure by dialysis .
6 But what is known about these genes , based mainly on biochemical evidence , is that their catalytic protein products are likely to play critical roles in the transducing pathways that stimulate cells to grow and adopt specific phenotypes of functional importance .
7 Most of what is known about social development is based on the study of encounters between a child and one other person , yet much of a child 's life takes place in groups of more than two persons — within the family , the neighbourhood peer groups , the pre-school group , and so on .
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