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

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1 It 's already known that women who take the contraceptive pill are much less likely to develop it .
2 And it 's also known that breastmilk has a special value for babies most vulnerable to infection , for example those born ill or premature .
3 To the actress Joyce Carey in the crowded foyer of the Old Vic : ‘ But Joyce , it 's well known that Shakespeare sucked Bacon dry . ’
4 The only trouble is , it 's well known around this office that I am a Chelsea fan .
5 It 's well known . ’
6 It 's well known that the universe verse is infinite .
7 It 's well known that Maurice likes a night out but the media attention he gets in Britain makes it difficult for him to enjoy it .
8 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 .
9 I have a reputation for honesty and fair trading — and it 's well known that I do n't have any truck with shady deals , ’ she informed him bluntly .
10 She says he 's very happy and it 's very important to him that 's he 's arrived at Stoke Manceville because it 's well known .
11 It 's well known of me that I am not subject to shame .
12 Our young gallant here , ’ he waved his hand contemptuously at Geoffrey , ‘ was asked to accompany us to the parapet but it 's well known he 's terrified of heights . ’
13 So , you know what these girls are , they sort of I personally , you know , as it were a trained scientist , a certified chemist who you tend to , to take a , a slightly er diagnostic view of things , but that 's not quite right , but you take a slightly objective view of things and I , I , I , I 've been thinking to myself ah it is rotten unfair on girls because sometimes sort of between about fifteen and twenty five , but now I suppose because they 're all growing up so much earlier it 's between ten and twenty , they have a pretty monumental change , they , and , and it 's not a bundle of laughs but they can talk to their friends , they can see their friends and talk to their mothers , they can get a vague way it 's gon na affect them and they can you know , sort of , let's say twenty , twenty five settle into a routine which has variations every , during the four weeks and they vary between individuals , I mean it 's well known
14 That means imperialism means in a way they 're the French market it 's well known , and , makes itself sell at much a than in its , in its own country , so you can say that for example Thompson has a monopoly tower , most European and have a monopoly tower
15 No , I think it 's well known , actually , amongst the computing fraternity , that the best programmers are actually housewives , because basically it 's a question of housekeeping .
16 It 's widely known — because the unions have publicized it — that the Department is looking at bailing out Huerter Textiles .
17 Today it 's officially known , as it was five thousand years ago at the height of its civilization , as Thera Island .
18 But it 's now known that Mrs Law was last seen alive just after lunchtime on Sunday .
19 Meanwhile , it 's now known that two other people from the Central South region were among the one hundred and sixty seven passengers killed .
20 It 's now known that more than 100 people are H I V positive following treatment here .
21 It 's hormone replacement the therapy , it 's better known as H R T.
22 It is otherwise known as delegated legislation .
23 It is otherwise known as the Feast of St Peter and St Paul . ’
24 Desktop Sunergy Classics will run a 50MHz Tsunami ( or MicroSparc as it is officially known ( UX No 406 ) ) , and are rated at 22.6 SPECint(92) , 17.4 SPECfp(92) and around 14 MFLOPS .
25 Sasse , as it is generally known , is the oldest secondary school in the Cameroon Republic by a good ten years .
26 ‘ Once it is generally known , ’ said Roland , ‘ that these letters exist , everyone will be at your door .
27 TVH , as it is generally known , was typified for me by a man called Alf Mignot , who died in 1987 in his early sixties .
28 It is generally known , of course , that standard English enshrines sporadic residues of approximations between these vowels , for example in doublets of the type strop/strap , catch/ketch , but there has been a good deal of dispute about EModE evidence for overlap and merger in this part of the vowel-system .
29 " Many property groups have recently been in difficulties , and it is generally known in the City that the Ingard group has not been doing well .
30 On that , I think it is generally known , that we , that Telford was n't anywhere near the top of the list , and it had been taken purely on the question of the er , needs of the various areas , it 's unlikely that Telford would have succeeded , even with its reduced geographical area , but I made discrete enquiries and was told that the factor which tipped er , the Commission in favour of Telford , and this has an important bearing on what we 're going to discuss later , was the fact that Telford has been very good in taking up schemes and providing their section , and not just the Wreakin District Council , other area , other bodies in Telford , of getting good innovative schemes off the ground and providing the cash , they did n't , as some areas did , get the status , and then hardly do anything about it .
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