Example sentences of "it is [adv] know that [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It is widely known that there are harmful effects from inhalation of outfall from a lead works ; for children who ingest it by licking lead-painted toys ; and for families whose drinking water is supplied through lead pipes .
2 It is well known that we remember best what comes first and what comes last in any period of study or reading .
3 It is well known that they always develop their more satisfying choreographic ideas when working with a group of dancers whose abilities they know .
4 ‘ Lady Isabella , ’ Cranston said smoothly , ‘ it is well known that your husband had strange tastes and foibles .
5 Rolls-Royce spokesman David Preston said : ‘ It is well known that our sales have been 50 per cent down on what they were in 1990 so any reduction is welcome . ’
6 It is well known that you do not reason as other men .
7 It is well known that he organized the transportation of Dürer 's Rosenkranzfest ( a painting full of Habsburg symbolism , including the portraits of Maximilian I and Pope Julius II ) across the Alps from Venice , with four bearers to hold it upright .
8 It is well known that it is difficult to grow plantation rubber ( Hevea brasiliensis , originally from Brazil ) successfully in the forest lands where that species grows wild , and it grows best in Malaysia ; cocoa , which is also native to the New World , grows best in West Africa , cloves from Indonesia , in Zanzibar , and so on .
9 My friend says I should not have been taking this drug during my pregnancy and that it is well known that it can cause these problems .
10 My friend says I should not have been taking this drug during my pregnancy and that it is well known that it can cause these problems .
11 It is well known that I am a prize fighter by profession …
12 It is well known that I disliked what was in the first three-year letter of intent , but I wholly approved of the principle .
13 But it is well known that there is a prejudice against awarding the bigger gongs to those who have fled England : especially for Switzerland .
14 It is well known that there has been widespread acceptance of restrictive trade measures falling outside the formal GATT rules , e.g. voluntary export restraints and anti-dumping legislation .
15 It is also known that there are people in mental handicap hospitals who are not and have never been mentally handicapped .
16 Sir , the pond in D thirty nine has been shown to be a breeding place for the Great Crested Newt , but it is also known that it migrates to other ponds , several others , but does not necessarily breed there , but chooses at Skelton .
17 Hyenas have always been thought of as scavengers but it is now known that they are also vigorous nocturnal hunters .
18 This was a time of panic , in which one farmer alleged that a thousand of his sheep had been killed by these parrots ; but it is now known that they rarely kill sheep .
19 The details of the legend 's growth are obscure , but it is now known that it was developing steadily in northern Spain and southern France in the centuries between the eighth and the eleventh .
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