Example sentences of "[is] [adv] know [conj] " 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 widely known that the new repository will run on AIX and OS/2 , but it may surprise many that the thing is also up under OS/400 as well as on Ultrix , HP-UX and Solaris and that IBM has funded development work internally for it to appear on these non-IBM versions .
3 However , it is widely known that only a small proportion of such qualifying mergers are referred , and further that vertical mergers are a small proportion of the total .
4 A trade usage will be imported if it is widely known and followed , and is sufficiently certain , binding and reasonable .
5 In 1981–87 , there was a continuing process of national job loss ( Figure 5.4A ; this period of decline is little known because of delays in the availability of the data that are considered here ) .
6 Of course , Thomas Luis de Victoria is better known than Juan Gutièrez de Padilla but , as Bruno Turner points out in his informative programme note , he is ‘ undoubtedly the finest composer of the colonial period to come from Old Spain and spend nearly all his productive life in the New Spain ’ .
7 Much of Europe now has its champion to watch on that famous , treacherous stretch ; and to many , the champion is better known and better loved than any politician .
8 It 's already known that women who take the contraceptive pill are much less likely to develop it .
9 The bodega of Marques de Caceres in Rioja , northern Spain , was founded by the Forner family in 1970 , and today is one of the country 's best known and most modern bodegas .
10 NORMA Major fights a daily battle with intense personal pressures as wife to one of the world 's best known and most high-powered statesmen .
11 Many elements of the Exchequer transactions total can be predicted with a reasonable degree of accuracy by the Bank of England on a day-to-day basis : the impact of foreign exchange transactions passing through the EEA is generally known since most such transactions are settled two days later ; gilts transactions are generally settled on the next business day ; and various government sources give information on both government expenditure and expected tax receipts .
12 It may appear that this information is already known but the point at issue is whether the supervisor knows and whether reality matches assumptions .
13 It is already known that Strauss worked to a system of keys associated with particular characters and situations , but Professor Gilliam identifies his primary concern in Elektra as ‘ establishing a sense of motivic continuity in the orchestral line ’ , thus lending extra point to Strauss 's description of Salome as ‘ a symphony in the medium of drama ’ .
14 The National Trust is currently undertaking a structural survey which will reveal the full scale of the damage , but it is already known that extensive harm has been done to the brickwork , windows and terrace .
15 It is already known that the normal reader has at his or her disposal two very different procedures ( two very different sets of mental operations ) for accomplishing the conversion of print to speech .
16 But , he adds : ‘ There is an enormous advantage in building change on to something that is already known and respected .
17 There , between 1647 and 1655 Taylor wrote the books for which he is best known and kept the flame of his proscribed Church alive under the rule of parliament and Cromwell .
18 The minority still have a right to object to the court but that opposition is usually known and dealt with before the bidder becomes committed to acquire any shares in the target .
19 Answer guide : In this case the uncertainty is mitigated as the life is clearly known and it is also clear that the loss in utility relates to time .
20 It is also known that such conditions can be cured by a reduction in anxiety
21 It is also known that there are people in mental handicap hospitals who are not and have never been mentally handicapped .
22 It is also known that two of the four panel members who complained about Mrs Kemp were employees of Orkney Islands Council .
23 It is also known that the Indus Valley civilization was far more extensive than formerly realised , embracing areas as far away as the Oxus River , now called Amu Darya , in Central Asia and forming part of the Soviet Afghanistan border on its course .
24 It is also known that a similar census took place in Syria in 6 AD .
25 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 .
26 For example , there is growing evidence showing the relationship between poor housing conditions and poor health , both physical and mental , ’ and it is also known that poor housing adversely affects educational attainment , and that overcrowded conditions can lead to domestic tension and perhaps violence .
27 It is also known that whilst some companies provide only the minimum information required by law , other companies provide additional information voluntarily .
28 It is also known that hepatocytes express a series of integrin and non-integrin receptors for a series of matrix constituents .
29 It is also known that the low-rate stratum contains two-thirds of the population of households .
30 This path then is also known and in terms of accurate work , they also know the temperature now I 'm not sure if there 's a temperature effect on rotation , but it would n't surprise me if there was .
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