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

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1 It is not officially known whether this is attributable to the greenhouse effect or natural climate variability .
2 Indeed , it is not even known whether some substances which contaminate water are harmful or not .
3 It is not widely known that Old FF keeps a diary .
4 For example , it is not widely known that there were turntables at both Bishop 's Castle and Stretford Bridge in the line 's early years , though they seem to have been little used and the railway gained its reputation for unusual working practices right from the start .
5 Apart from the load attempted suicide places on health service facilities , it is not yet known whether the high levels of the behaviour in recent years will subsequently be reflected in an increase in the numbers of completed suicides .
6 But it is not yet known whether the teenager is returning to her mother or remaining with her 18-year-old boyfriend 's family .
7 Its site was evidently occupied beforehand — the outer walls near the main entrance in the eastern corner extend across the remains of earlier houses — but it is not yet known whether a temple stood there .
8 It is not yet known whether any revision coming out of the move will be in place for the coming or the following campaign .
9 It is not yet known whether toothed whales regularly use such a weapon .
10 It is not yet known whether research would confirm these hypotheses of the character of certain distinct twentieth-century paranational cultural formations , though they provide an initial basis for considering the contradictory character of the history of the avant-garde movements : that they represent sharp and even violent breaks with received and traditional practices ( a dissidence or revolt rather than a literal avant garde ) ; and yet that they become ( in ways separable from the important facts of their dilution and commercial exploitation ) the dominant culture of a succeeding metropolitan and paranational period .
11 It is not yet known whether a claim in tort can be framed in terms of loss of chance .
12 It is not yet known whether Russia will attempt to salvage the nuclear submarine that sank off northern Norway in April 1989 .
13 It is not yet known whether the dormant bacteria can return to the infectious state .
14 It is not yet known if other symptoms of jet-lag are reduced and there is little clear evidence that they adjust the body clock that controls body temperature and performance rhythms .
15 However , it is not yet known if NC protein has an additional role during reverse transcription and/or prior to proviral integration .
16 Although it is not yet known if the H2T cell line expresses TGF α , these findings go some way to support the hypothesis proposed by Korc and others that TGF α may have a role as an autocrine growth stimulator in pancreatic cancer .
17 It is not yet known if hypobiosis occurs in Oe. radiatum .
18 While Dutch administrators have been working on plans to transfer part of the former Daf into a new company known as New Daf , it is not yet known if the rescue package will help save jobs at the five Leyland Daf plants in Britain .
19 It is not generally known that among the sculptured panels at the top of the Library facade , there is one featuring two children fingerspelling at each other the first two letters of the alphabet .
20 It is not generally known that nearly 90% of the 3,500 or so complaints received yearly are cleared up by the secretariat without the need for disciplinary action .
21 It is not generally known that there are more than 1,000 applications a week at the Home Office for political asylum from new arrivals .
22 Perhaps it is not generally known that David Farrington 's research on criminal careers suggests that the single most effective crime prevention policy is nursery education , which is denied to so many children in inner city areas .
23 It is not commonly known that within the Church of England there are some fifty recognised communities of monks or nuns .
24 It is n't even known where on Krakatoa the eruption was centred , but the chances are that it was Perboewetan , since the lava flows in the crater looked extremely fresh when they were examined in the nineteenth century .
25 But it is also well known that the so-called expert witness in court may be a hired gun , willing to testify to anything for a fee , or a crackpot whose unsupportable ideas are masked by an advanced degree — often from a respectable university .
26 However , it is also well known that social stereotyping of [ h ] -loss does not apply in Scotland , Ireland , North America and colonial Englishes generally , for the reason that [ h ] is stable in stressed syllables in these varieties ( although [ h ] -loss is found in English-based Creoles ) .
27 It is also well known that the sediments build up in the summer and tend to be removed again in the winter .
28 It is also well known that languages like Japanese and Tagalog have topic markers distinct from case markers .
29 It is very well known that dreams often contain elements — visual or ideational — that can be identified as being part of the previous day 's experiment .
30 It is quite well known that at Christmas British and German troops briefly fraternized and drank together in no-man's-land .
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