Example sentences of "nothing is known " in BNC.

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1 The answer , it seems , is that next to nothing is known about it .
2 However , nothing is known about the long-term environmental consequences — or even effectiveness — of using the ocean beds as dumps .
3 Nothing is known about the flora and vegetation of the Outer Hebrides in any previous interglacials , as no unambiguous interglacial deposits have , so far , been discovered .
4 Typical trilobites of several kinds are present in the earliest Cambrian rocks ; they must have had late Precambrian ancestors , but of these nothing is known .
5 Nothing is known of the scores .
6 Nothing is known of its origins but it is engraved ‘ Reading 1892 ’ .
7 In the old language andegari meant hawthorn , and a bush of that type probably at one time marked the external borders of the city of Mediolanum , although little or nothing is known of that first town .
8 Nothing is known of him until , at the age of fourteen , he took up a sort of apprenticeship with a widow near Lowestoft .
9 Nothing is known of its activities , but Vikings normally maintained themselves by raiding the country within a wide range of their base .
10 Nothing is known of his background , other than that he was the son of John Eckford and Janet Black .
11 Nothing is known of their breeding habits , but females are believed to be more robust than males .
12 In one half lived the miner Charles Decrucq and his family , and in the other a fellow evangelist of whom nothing is known , except that his surname was Frank .
13 Nothing is known about his associate in the vehicle , who remains unidentified .
14 To date nothing is known to their service with the RAF in India up to their transfer to the Indian Air Force on December 31 , 1947 .
15 Staining for antibodies specific to the short-wave photopigment has revealed a sparse , semiregular array of cones ; but nothing is known about the arrangement of the more numerous long- and middle-wave cones .
16 Nothing is known of them outside the Bible , but they were evidently a race of Goliaths .
17 Again , a priori , we assume nothing is known of the nature of A , so that the process of finding the dominant eigenvalue and its vector is approached as usual by iterating with A on an arbitrary column co .
18 Of the Baktrian revolt nothing is known except that the satrapy was recovered by aid of a providential wind , presumably a sandstorm blowing from the Turkish steppes .
19 On the most miniature scale of all , smaller even than the demes , were the Attic komai or villages ; even these had their komarchs , though about these officials virtually nothing is known .
20 Nothing is known of their breeding habits .
21 Nothing is known as to what has happened in Switzerland , but it does appear that in the United States , after a long course of litigation , the attempts have failed .
22 If nothing is known about the distribution of hits in the file , the cylinder index should be placed in the centre of the file area .
23 This is never the best solution ; as pointed out above , the centre of the file is the logical position if nothing is known about hit pattern .
24 Next to nothing is known about the experience of ageing with a long-term disability .
25 Practically nothing is known about the race dimension to ageing with a disability .
26 However , nothing is known about the expression of the two individual α subunit variants in human muscle or other tissues .
27 It was written by Mary Edgar to a Mrs Waddell ; nothing is known about either of them , but one would like to have known Mary Edgar who could write such a letter .
28 Of Oswald 's dealings with the eastern Angles nothing is known , but it was probably the case that Anna , son of Eni , Raedwald 's nephew ( HE 11 , 15 : III , 18 ) , was established as king of the eastern Angles with northern Anglian assistance .
29 Nothing is known of Wulfhere 's power among the eastern Angles , where the accession c .
30 Despite a reign of about fifty years — he died in 713 and was succeeded by his son , Aelfwald — almost nothing is known about him .
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