Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] known [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is little known that poll tax collectors not only have the authority to arrest those they suspect of defaulting on poll tax and strip them naked for the purposes of search ( without any obligation to mend or replace clothing which is destroyed in the process ) , but they can also apply torture in cases where they have reason to believe poll tax is being withheld — at any rate until such time as the defaulters reveal where their money is hidden . |
| 2 | It is well known that isolation in itself , with no sleep loss , can induce hallucinatory experiences , and it seems that in this experiment the effects of sleep loss potentiated the relatively mild levels of isolation imposed on the subjects . |
| 3 | It is now known that information flow from Vl to V4 is segregated in an anatomically discrete channel so that V4 receives input from identifiable subfields of V2 which receive their input from similarly identifiable zones in V1 . |
| 4 | It was not known last night if he would be charged . |
| 5 | It was not known last night if any of the royals would travel from Balmoral to watch him in action . |
| 6 | At the same time it was widely known that unemployment relief , while inadequate , could only be paid at all as a result of direct subsidy from the Reich . |