Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] [adv] know that " in BNC.
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| 1 | How else could it be so swiftly known that a prominent member of the Royal College of Acupuncturists , say , had been picked up during the night and pinched for drunk-driving ? |
| 2 | ‘ I think it 's pretty well known that some of the ones that are going to get a particularly close look are the ones I mentioned , either because they are not being competed in by a lot of people in a great many countries , or they are expensive , and so on . ’ |
| 3 | It 's quite well known that Little Richard was one of David 's idols , but there 's a lot of other American people who interested David , as much from the image point of view as the music . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | It is also well known that the sediments build up in the summer and tend to be removed again in the winter . |
| 7 | It is also well known that languages like Japanese and Tagalog have topic markers distinct from case markers . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is quite well known that at Christmas British and German troops briefly fraternized and drank together in no-man's-land . |
| 10 | It is fairly well known that Martin bought the Swedish Levin Guitar factory in the 1970s and that Levin had ceased trading by the end of that decade . |
| 11 | It is now well known that distant galaxies are probably about 10 times farther away than Hubble inferred . |
| 12 | It is so well known that women who smoke risk giving birth to underweight babies that the labels on cigarette packets in America caution that ‘ smoking may complicate pregnancy . ’ |
| 13 | It is less widely known that there was a comparable ( although much smaller ) dyeing industry in Ireland based on Nucella lapillus which seems to have been known of as far away as Minehead in Somerset ( Cole , 1685 ) . |
| 14 | In Ireland it was also generally known that the rays of the sun at winter solstice sunrise illuminated the chamber of the ancient mound at Newgrange . |
| 15 | It was also well known that Mrs Thatcher preferred to have people buying their own private pension scheme ; here was an area in which the state might be rolled back . |
| 16 | It was enough simply to know that otters were out there somewhere . |