Example sentences of "it is [adv] known [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is well known that teachers undertake a number of tasks which appear to be additional to their contractual duties and so voluntary . |
| 2 | It may also be noted that if this method is employed then the first number chosen should be by random means rather than just ‘ saying a number between 1 and 10 ’ since it is well known that choices between these limits do not come out anything like randomly — the number 7 being particularly popular . |
| 3 | It is well known that things can happen in the mind that can not happen elsewhere . |
| 4 | It is well known that products of the cyclo-oxygenase reaction , prostaglandins , and of the lipoxygenase reaction , leukotrienes , are increased in inflammatory bowel disease . |
| 5 | It is well known that girls and boys tend to choose different books , and indeed that teenage boys tend to drop voluntary reading altogether . |
| 6 | It is well known that responses to a stimulus presented off-centre will be faster when made by the limb on the same side of the body as the stimulus appears , that is , when stimulus and response are said to be compatible ( Fitts and Seeger , 1953 ) . |
| 7 | It is well known that parents tend to treat their children as they themselves have been treated by their own parents . |
| 8 | However , this is unlikely to cause any difficulties in the context of commercial operations : it is well known that documents of the kind on which standard terms of business are likely to be printed , such as orders , acknowledgments and delivery notes , commonly include contract terms . |
| 9 | It is well known that managers in general make very limited use of external publicly available information sources for strategic ( or , indeed , frequently for any other ) purposes . |
| 10 | It is well known that problems of identification are acute throughout the criminal law , and intent is also hard to prove in some cases . |
| 11 | It is well known that money-lenders typically charge exorbitant interest rates which are insensitive to interest rates in the organised money markets . |
| 12 | It is well known that Pythagoras ' belief in the significance of numbers was supported by his alleged discovery , with the aid of a stringed instrument , that the concordant intervals of the musical scale correspond to simple numerical ratios . |
| 13 | And it is well known that children who have been read to in their preschool years have a general advantage when the learning of reading begins . |
| 14 | It is well known that trees grow by the addition of rings , usually ( though not always ) annually . |
| 15 | Indeed it is well known that societies which were very poor , by all later standards , allotted very significant time , energy and resources to the production of what would now be distinguished as art-objects . |
| 16 | It is well known that speakers of French have open to them a number of different ways of forming interrogatives ; for example , Coveney ( 1986 ) has distinguished five different variants of the wh interrogative , two of which are [ SVQ ] and [ QSV ] . |
| 17 | It is also known that hepatocytes express a series of integrin and non-integrin receptors for a series of matrix constituents . |
| 18 | It is now known that smokers are more likely to develop a cerebral thrombosis ( stroke ) than non smokers . |