Example sentences of "[conj] [is] [adv] well know " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Catherine Lee is an artist who has surely not exhibited so extensively nor is so well known as her painter-husband , Sean Scully .
2 In recent years the evidence for the health benefits of fibre , or ‘ roughage ’ as it used to be called , has grown so strong that it has filtered through from the medical journals and is now well known to the British and American public .
3 In his early days he had been clerk of the race-course , but is more well known as the fiery Salvationist he became after his conversion .
4 As is pretty well known the double helix of DNA is right-handed .
5 Trace gases in the atmosphere are key components of the cycles of such elements as carbon , nitrogen , oxygen , sulphur and the halogens ; as is now well known , their concentrations are much influenced by biogenic and anthropogenic activities and the concentrations of such gases as carbon dioxide , ozone , methane , nitrous oxide and the chlorofluoromethanes ( CFMs ) strongly affect radiative transfer and provide a link with the physical climate system .
6 As is now well known , the thrust and outline of the proposed reforms were announced by Mr Kenneth Clarke , the then Secretary of State for Education and Science in a speech to the North of England Education Conference in early January and by way of a consultation document at the end of that month .
  Next page