Example sentences of "known of [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little is known of fetomaternal cell transfer at much earlier stages of pregnancy , though there is growing evidence that NFEs occur in proportionately greater numbers in the maternal circulation at earlier gestations . |
| 2 | I 've never myself known of any adult getting away with going over 107 . |
| 3 | Flight-muscle homogenates of Hyalophora cecropia and Locusta migratoria will actively oxidize fatty acids by mechanisms not unlike those occurring in vertebrate tissues ( Gilbert , 1967 ) but much more is known of flight-muscle metabolism in the species that use carbohydrates . |
| 4 | All that is known of medieval warfare suggests that Lothar and his men would not have been sleeping after dawn — least of all when they knew that battle was imminent — and that Lothar 's scouts would have kept him well informed of his brothers ' moves . |
| 5 | ‘ But if he 'd known of this outrage , ’ said Philip , looking from one to the other of them with searching eyes , ‘ the boy would have told me in Isambard 's presence . |
| 6 | and et all ( 362 , 355 & 359 ; 1993 showed that these organs ( among others ) are sites at which the virus multiplies during the often long latency period in AIDS , but more will have to be known of this process before it can be the basis of a routine assay . |
| 7 | Mid-water regions of oceans are always the hardest to explore and model ; very little is known of this region of arctic waters . |
| 8 | Many of its contemporaries , such as Coverdale and Swaledale , which never transferred to large-scale factory production , have recently been revived , but Wensleydale is the best known of this group . |
| 9 | ‘ Poor Tom would have been so very unhappy if he 'd known of this situation , ’ she 'd sniffed while fumbling for a handkerchief . |
| 10 | Little is known of this period , but the mill had become the property of Leonard Stanley Priory by 1456 . |
| 11 | This must be because he did not know any observations of it : Darwin was interested by every possible form of moral behaviour in animals , and if he had known of restrained fighting , he would have written about it . |
| 12 | Little is known of precise wage levels before the beginning of the nineteenth century , but retrospective evidence suggests that Manchester 's spinners were earning between 30 and 38s ( £1.50 — £1.90 ) in the 1790s , twice as much as the weaver exampled by Eden . |