Example sentences of "[det] [be] know of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not much is known of Joseph Nettlefold 's personality . |
| 2 | Less is known of sign language grammar universals than of lexical similarities . |
| 3 | Less is known of the Dani 's fate , but let us suppose that Whitley 's worst fears are justified ( 1989 : 18 ) . |
| 4 | Mr Clinton is apparently thinking of a smaller force , with total manpower cut to 1.4m and troops in Europe to around 100,000 ; but little more is known of his intentions . |
| 5 | Flight-muscle homogenates of Hyalophora cecropia and Locusta migratoria will actively oxidize fatty acids by mechanisms not unlike those occurring in vertebrate tissues ( Gilbert , 1967 ) but much more is known of flight-muscle metabolism in the species that use carbohydrates . |
| 6 | No more is known of his history . |
| 7 | Nothing more is known of him . |
| 8 | No more is known of this , and in 814 and 815 Canterbury received a number of royal land grants , but in 816 a synod at Chelsea attempted to challenge lay control of monasteries . |
| 9 | Obscure as they often are , more is known of Cnut 's foreign relations than his later years in England . |
| 10 | All that is known of Larkin 's domestic life derives from the parish registers of St Anne 's , Blackfriars , where between 1612 and 1615 the baptisms and burials of three of his children are recorded , and from his will , in which he mentioned his wife and young daughter , both named Mary . |
| 11 | All that is known of medieval warfare suggests that Lothar and his men would not have been sleeping after dawn — least of all when they knew that battle was imminent — and that Lothar 's scouts would have kept him well informed of his brothers ' moves . |
| 12 | He 's one of the most famous names in fashion but little is known of the man himself . |
| 13 | Little is known of the general effects of oil on the distribution of small cetaceans . |
| 14 | The duchess apart , little is known of their lives or even what their connection was with this village , but they should have left us £3,000 a year in charities . |
| 15 | At some stage a nine-hole course also existed on Ewelme Common but little is known of it , and other courses are likely to have come and gone . |
| 16 | Little is known of this period , but the mill had become the property of Leonard Stanley Priory by 1456 . |
| 17 | Little is known of the activities at Pitts Mill ; presumably it was run in conjunction with its neighbour . |
| 18 | Little is known of the visit other than that Mozart appeared before the Bavarian Elector Maximilian III Joseph . |
| 19 | Little is known of eruptions there , but there may have been one in the last decade , since sets of aerial photographs of the island taken many years apart show some slight changes . |
| 20 | The McGuires had another son and daughter , Hugh and Jacobina , but little is known of them and it is presumed that they both died young . |
| 21 | However , very little is known of any deaf aristocrats prior to 1750 , but there were some in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries , a number of whom achieved political renown . |
| 22 | Little is known of the history of the tower , which is part of a late 13th-century fortified manor house , but the remarkable paintings — ranging from biblical subjects to scenes of everyday rural life — tell a fascinating story of their own . |
| 23 | Little is known of his early life , except that he was the son of a judge 's clerk , of upper-middle class background , and that the male members of the family were engaged in either the legal or ecclesiastical professions . |
| 24 | Little is known of the inhabitants of the old manor house with its interesting architecture in the centre of the village , but the oddly named Hanging Grimston is within the parish , and here the Bouchier family lived in what must have been a grand castle with cottages nearby , and owned much land . |
| 25 | Newbridge , for instance , is now only a farm near Pulborough , and very little is known of its foundation . |
| 26 | Little is known of the ‘ cottage countess ’ but there is no evidence of her surprise at seeing Burghley House , or her supposed decline under the aristocratic social pressures which Tennyson alludes to . |
| 27 | There is the added attraction that , since little is known of publishing in many places , items are not always recognised as rare or significant , and are therefore comparatively inexpensive . |
| 28 | Little is known of his early life except for his recollection that at the age of nine or ten he ‘ did so offend the Lord that He did scare and terrify me with dreadful visions ’ , and that he was greatly afflicted at that time with thoughts of the Day of Judgement . |
| 29 | Little is known of this strikingly beautiful femme-fatale , except that her contribution to early aviation reporting was considerable . |
| 30 | Little is known of Aenarion 's early life . |