Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] known [conj] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 This is an affect well known in some domesticated animals like sheep , it 's well known that if sheep are , if , if , if , if ewes are well fed just before they mate , they 're much more likely to er to twin than if they 're er not given extra food supplement and nowadays erm farmers wh wh who , who breed sheep for lambing er frequently feed , feed ewes a special diet just before er conception for that very reason , the rate of twinning increases .
2 It is not known whether or not he ever returned to visit his mother during the first few years but it is certainly true that , latterly , he was not back in the county for many years .
3 It is well known that when parents talk to young children they repeat a great deal of what the child says ( and , of course , also expand it ) .
4 Mr. Speaker : It is well known that when the Benches are empty there is much else going on in the House .
5 Most commonly , mura-muras are asked to send rain , for it is well known that if one is offended he will hold up a huge bark dish to the heavens and catch all the rain on its way to earth , out of spite .
6 Scalars and vectors are in fact the simplest types of tensors , and from SR it is well known that if an equality can be proved between vectors ( or scalars ) in one inertial frame then the equality remains true under Lorentz transformations to other inertial frames .
7 It is also known that whilst some companies provide only the minimum information required by law , other companies provide additional information voluntarily .
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