Example sentences of "be known about the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It will be impossible for all members of a governing body to absorb all that needs to be known about the vast subject of special needs and to be adequately informed at the same time about all the other endeavours which they have to promote . |
2 | There was much less to be known about the broader background against which policy had to be made . |
3 | As to which is the more stringent obligation in a situation in which more than one applies , that is for intuitive assessment in the light of all that can be known about the particular circumstances of the case . |
4 | These problems , coupled with the lack of interest amongst palaeoecologists in extreme northern and western areas until quite recently ( Birks , 1988 ) , result in comparatively little being known about the detailed floristic and vegetational history of these ecologically unique islands . |
5 | These days much is known about the socio-economic composition of the population thanks largely to the national census . |
6 | Rather more is known about the similar outbreak in the fifteenth century , Jack Cade 's rebellion of 1450 . |
7 | But little is known about the chemical ‘ soup ’ of the oceans , and therefore the type of life that first became selected and concentrated there and which would have been different from that occurring , say , in rivers or stagnant pools . |
8 | Little is known about the key processes which fix land values and lead to land valorisation as urban development occurs . |
9 | The assessments of these probabilities are made on the basis of what is known about the additional research , or the consultant , in relation to the unknowns in the project ( Moore and Thomas , 1979 ) . |
10 | The assessments of these probabilities are made on the basis of what is known about the additional research , or the consultant , in relation to the unknowns in the project ( Moore and Thomas , 1979 ) . |
11 | It is futile to inquire into the causation of verbal behaviour until much more is known about the specific character of this behaviour ; and there is little point in speculating about processes of acquisition without much better understanding of what is acquired . |
12 | Thus , despite a growing knowledge of the interaction of CytR with its cognate promoters , little is known about the specific CytR-DNA interactions . |
13 | Relatively little is known about the cellular events dictating differentiation in humans . |
14 | With the exception of a few large-scale programmes ( Giaretto , 1982 ; Sgroi , 1982 ) and a single case study ( Kolko , 1986 ) , little is known about the suggested success of specific approaches . |
15 | Less , however , is known about the second generation of Asians and the extent to which this group is challenging the internal and external forces for segregation . |
16 | Elsewhere , the relationships are more difficult to define , usually because too little is known about the individual sites ; examples include the extensive industries of Brockley Hill and Mancetter-Hartshill , while Dorchester-on-Thames also lay on the fringes of the kiln area producing Oxford wares . |
17 | While much has been written about that industry as a whole , relatively little is known about the individual firms in it . |
18 | Little is known about the evolutionary relationships between the TMP resistant DHFRs , and full biochemical characterisation may be required to resolve ambiguities says Towner . |
19 | As a consequence , very little is known about the first thousand years of Imperial history . |
20 | Nothing is known about the first 7 years of this person 's life , and whilst only scattered information exists about the middle span , we know that only at the age 42 did the Earth begin to flower . |
21 | It is hard to reconcile this interpretation with the apparent frugivorous adaptations of Kenyapithecus and the presence in the fauna of at least four other primates ( one other hominoid , one monkey and two small-bodied apes ) , but the interpretation of seasonal forest is consistent with the little that is known about the other afropithecin sites as well . |
22 | More is known about the possible costs of curbing output of carbon dioxide , the main greenhouse gas . |
23 | Little is known about the actual velocity profiles of winds near the surfaces of stars , so we can not pursue this further . |
24 | However , nothing is known about the long-term environmental consequences — or even effectiveness — of using the ocean beds as dumps . |
25 | The survey , carried out by Dr Helen McEwan and Dr Mary Campbell-Brown of Glasgow Royal Infirmary , reported that many women fear not enough is known about the long-term consequences . |
26 | Not much is known about the political attitudes of unemployed people . |
27 | Little is known about the religious beliefs of the earlier natives , and the sparse information that survives about the Saxon traditions comes from the hardly objective pens of monastic writers . |
28 | In fact , relatively little is known about the various influences on teachers ' classroom practice and the extent to which these are similar in different countries . |
29 | Every Scot knows at least part of the story of the massacre , but many are not aware of the background that led up to the atrocity and too little is known about the heinous wickedness of some of the characters involved . |
30 | SIR — Lisberger and Sejnowski , and Judge in News and Views , discussed what is known about the cerebellar control of the vestibulo-ocular reflex ( VOR ) . |