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

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1 It is widely known that the new repository will run on AIX and OS/2 , but it may surprise many that the thing is also up under OS/400 as well as on Ultrix , HP-UX and Solaris and that IBM has funded development work internally for it to appear on these non-IBM versions .
2 It is well known that the personal characteristics of a participant observer affect their research practice ( see Hunt 1984 ; Warren 1988 ; Warren and Rasmussen 1977 ; Wax 1979 ) , and that being female brings its own problems in the field .
3 They have written that ‘ It is well known that the great Soviet pedagogue , A. S. Makarenko , succeeded in forming a genuine Soviet collective of charges only after a Komsomol organization was established in his colony . ’
4 It is well known that the Albanians , who predominate in Kosovo and in parts of western Macedonia , tend to have very large families , Such rapid rates of growth of population in areas of poverty and high unemployment are naturally a matter of great concern to the authorities .
5 But it is well known that the provision of advice services nationally is uneven and as the best.known generalist advice agency , the CAB feels that it would be failing the wider community if it did not consider what barriers may be preventing people from approaching a CAB for advice .
6 It is well known that the majority of dementia sufferers living at home receive the main part of their care from family , friends and neighbours ( see for example Bergmann , 1978 ; Levin et al , 1983 ) .
7 It is well known that the movement was part of a complex colonizing process which began in the early 1880s in the East End of London , whereby members of the upper classes lived among the poor , providing them with a variety of educational , recreational , and welfare services .
8 Secondly , it is well known that the impact of the rediscovery of poverty in the 1880s helped to bring about a much more complex analysis of poverty and its causes , which in turn looked toward the State to begin to solve the problem .
9 It is well known that the belief in citizenship was derived from the writings of T. H. Green , the Oxford Idealist philosopher , who more than any other figure made the connection between philosophy and educational theory and practice .
10 It is well known that the plastic used on original Fenders used to fade from white to a sort of greenish grey , and this type of scratchplate has been on offer as a cosmetic retro-fit for some time .
11 The last category is anyone under the influence of alcohol , as it is well known that the mental faculties of such people are often impaired , even if only temporarily .
12 It is well known that the UKCC has to this date been a bastion of conservatism , its appointments being made through the patronage of the secretary of state or the national boards .
13 It is well known that the authorities are aware of only a small proportion of crimes , and that administrative processing of those crimes further distorts official statistics .
14 It is well known that the Princess wanted ‘ out ’ of the Royal Family , but to her fellow passengers it was also clear she is only now coming to terms with the fact that she really is out — and quite alone .
15 It is well known that the DTI is concerned about the impact of regulation on very small companies .
16 However , it is well known that the motivation of the person concerned is an important ingredient in successful independence .
17 In Britain it is well known that the 1968 Donovan Report identified bargaining structures as a major strategic variable in determining the effectiveness of industrial relations .
18 It is well known that the substantial cost of re-equipping the many US registered airliners with electronic digital flight data recorders was behind this opposition .
19 It is well known that the extension of Community competence to new areas has largely been achieved on the basis of Articles 100 and 235 of the EEC Treaty .
20 In the building trade it is well known that the cost of building a new building may be less than the cost of modifying an old one .
21 It is well known that the absolute velocity is given by where is the velocity measured relative to the rotating frame at a vector distance r from the axis of rotation .
22 It is well known that the pressure inside a star resists the gravitational collapse , and yet it now looks as if pressure can , by virtue of contributing to a component of the stress-energy tensor , hasten gravitational collapse .
23 It is well known that the Government have received an offer to privatise search and rescue services .
24 It is well known that the appraisal has been carried out and that the information is with the Minister .
25 It is well known that the Education ( Schools ) Bill , which seeks to privatise the schools ' inspectorate , is a matter of great controversy .
26 It is well known that the volatile Nowozielski has had more than the normal share of ups and downs with the notoriously conservative Board of the Lyric .
27 It is well known that the inhibition of NO synthesis with L-arginine analogues induces a sustained vasoconstriction and causes an increase in systemic arterial blood pressure .
28 It is also known that the Indus Valley civilization was far more extensive than formerly realised , embracing areas as far away as the Oxus River , now called Amu Darya , in Central Asia and forming part of the Soviet Afghanistan border on its course .
29 It is also known that the low-rate stratum contains two-thirds of the population of households .
30 It is already known that the normal reader has at his or her disposal two very different procedures ( two very different sets of mental operations ) for accomplishing the conversion of print to speech .
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