Example sentences of "[be] know about [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In knowing that something is an order one knows all there is to know about its relation to its execution .
2 If you 've known Charles and Lucy for years , then you 'll know pretty well all there is to know about my background … ’
3 Unfortunately , little is known about her life , however , it is understood that she regularly for the National Geographic magazine , for whom she did some of their earliest published colour photography .
4 Unfortunately , little is known about her life , however , it is understood that she worked regularly for the National Geographic magazine , for whom she did some of their earliest published colour photography .
5 Apparently , the institute is considering building a pilot plant , but little is known about its proposals , and clearly we are a long way from that becoming a viable alternative to present-day technology .
6 Paradoxically , therefore , Water Newton is our clearest ‘ town plan ’ , yet surprisingly little is known about its development through time .
7 Based on what the PB is and what is known about its antecedents and consequences , design a method of delivering these rewards ( and of withholding them ) on a contingent and consistent basis : that is whenever CB and PB appear .
8 Although physiologically naive to suggest , as some have , that the seat of creativity lies in the right hemisphere , the latter 's contribution must be considered of unique importance , given what is known about its style of cognitive processing .
9 Fraud is an area of crime of growing economic and social significance , but little is known about its victims .
10 Although a reasonable amount of material is available about the lives of these two men , nothing is known about their Muftiliks beyond the bare statement that they did hold the office ; and it is consequently impossible to make assumptions with any assurance about the nature of their Muftiliks .
11 Considerable effort is directed at teaching primary schoolchildren about the danger of ‘ strangers ’ , yet relatively little is known about their concepts of and beliefs about ‘ strangers ’ .
12 Transducer elements based on standard electrochemical principles have dominated biosensor research , and much more is known about their make-up than for almost any other transducer system .
13 Yet when they started out few people in Britain had ever heard of them and even now not much is known about their ideas on marketing and how they put them into effect .
14 However relatively little is known about their career plans and aspirations or about the impact which non-work issues , such as their domestic commitments , household work strategies and leisure orientations , have on these .
15 Much work has been done on children 's understanding of how a person 's beliefs determine that person 's actions , but less is known about their conception of the role of motivation in action .
16 Miller and Johnson-Laird define a number of perceptual discriminations in detailed procedural terms , utilizing what is known about our sensorimotor equipment and development .
17 Nothing is known about his activities until he was authorized , by Elizabeth I 's signet of 8 July 1563 , to prospect for minerals in England , which he did during that summer .
18 Little is known about his activities in Parliament , but in 1628 he opposed the billeting of troops and was summoned before the Privy Council ; four years later he was in conflict with the authorities again over musters .
19 , Samuel ( c. 1797–1848 ) , actor and comedian , is believed to have been born around 1797 , but nothing is known about his parentage or background .
20 Little is known about his family , and his date of birth can be inferred only from the fact that he was apprenticed to a mercer in 1528 .
21 Nothing is known about his employment from 1815 to 1830 , when Messrs C. , H. , and G. Enderby proposed an Antarctic sealing voyage , and appointed him master of the brig Tula ( 150 tons ) , which was not a good sea boat , with the cutter Lively and twenty-nine men and boys in all .
22 ‘ Nothing is known about his associate in the vehicle , who remains unidentified .
23 And , ’ she said confidingly , patting Meredith 's cold face , ‘ we almost despaired when he said you were determined to find out everything there was to know about your family .
24 Not much was known about its owner at the time , he was called Colin French .
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