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

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1 Although it is well known nowadays that , in addition to the noxious cereal grains , genetic factors may predispose susceptible subjects to an immune response that damages the small intestinal mucosa and the other environmental factors may triggerthis abnormal immune response , it was Dicke 's astute observations some 50 years ago that first changed the prognosis and treatment of these patients dramatically .
2 Although it is not known when he will be able to return to his £350,000-a-year job , he is expected to lead a normal life within three months .
3 They arrived on Christmas Eve 1924 , proving that high-quality electrical test recordings existed at the end of 1924 , although it is not known that any of these survive today .
4 They also plan to contact local doctors and hospitals in case the man sought medical treatment for the bites , although it is not known how serious his injuries were .
5 According to Sannia and James(1977) , the place of Parorchis acanthus ( Nicoll , 1906 ) is taken by Renicola thaidus Stunkard ( 1964 ) in America and Iceland , although it is not known whether this parasite exerts similar effects on its host .
6 Although it is not known for certain whether Yazid was present at Karbala , he is cast by the Shiites as the author of the incident , and the name is to this day a favourite Shiite epithet for a Sunni adversary — it was used in this sense during the 1980s war by the Tehran leadership when referring to that in Baghdad .
7 The company has , however , gone ahead with £1 million of research into public attitudes to nuclear power and has completed filming at least one television commercial , although it is not known when it will be broadcast .
8 The Royal Navy says it will be a routine departure for them , although it is not known yet how Cammell Laird will mark the event .
9 Although it is not known if the move will put off potential customers for the Cornmill , there are already fears an existing severe shortage of parking spaces threatens the future prosperity of Darlington 's town centre .
10 She had lived there for some time although it is not known where she lived before coming to Darlington .
11 The rights to Presley 's ‘ Sun ’ recordings were acquired by RCA Victor together with the rights to the artist , and although it is now known that the tapes in RCA Victor 's vault are not actually the 1955 originals , they are extremely good copies , and all have been reissued on compact disc .
12 Once it is generally known , ’ said Roland , ‘ that these letters exist , everyone will be at your door .
13 A trade usage will be imported if it is widely known and followed , and is sufficiently certain , binding and reasonable .
14 You probably already know what a larva is because it is also known as a caterpillar .
15 It is somewhat paradoxical that structural shift does not appear to have been a major factor in productivity growth after the war , because it is well known that structural imbalances contributed substantially to unemployment between the wars .
16 In fact , because it is not known , it might detract from the paper 's persuasiveness . ’
17 However it would appear that Hahnemann was a couple of centuries ahead of his time because it is now known that the DNA of certain viruses can incorporate itself into our own genome , our own inherited material .
18 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 .
19 While it is well known that machair may extend as much as 2 km inland in South Uist , less well known is the altitude to which blown shell sand exerts an ecological influence : the dunes at Luskentyre Banks ( NG 0699 ) are up to 35 m high , while the presence of large amounts of wind-blown shell fragments is evident from the presence of charophytes in lochs on Tairaval ( NB 1135 ) ( Angus , unpublished NCC report ) and at Mangersta ( NB 0131 ) ( Biagi et al 1985 ) , both sites being more than 50 m above sea level .
20 The sees of Ramsbury and Hereford did not fall vacant in his reign , while it is not known which king appointed Bishop Godwin II of Rochester .
21 It may also be noted that if this method is employed then the first number chosen should be by random means rather than just ‘ saying a number between 1 and 10 ’ since it is well known that choices between these limits do not come out anything like randomly — the number 7 being particularly popular .
22 Husameddin 's argument , moreover , ignores the facts that Shams al-Din is known to have been part of Molla Fenari 's name but not , so far as can be discovered , of that of his son and that the son was regularly referred to as Mehmed Sah whereas it is not known that Molla Fenari ever was .
23 North sea operators are given dispensations , not only when there are equivalent or higher alternative arrangements in place but in some cases when it is well known to the authorities that the platforms are operating at a level that would not be allowed if they were completely new platforms .
24 In addition it was decided only to examine information that is external to the company and available from formal sources even though it is well known ( and was confirmed in discussions with the companies themselves ) that a considerable use is made of internal and informal information .
25 For example , I wonder why there are no English-speaking contributors to the Panofsky centenary conference , even though it is well known that this approach was most fully developed in the English-speaking world .
26 Though it is not known how the two friends met , they were corresponding with each other by 1945 , Vaughan sharing with Minton , in the immediate aftermath of war , his mood of cynical disaffection .
27 Clérisseau 's knowledge of the Roman baths , which he had studied with Adam , would have been an asset to Cameron , though it is not known what share Clérisseau had in the preparation of Cameron 's book , The Baths of the Romans , which , after various delays , was published in London in 1772 .
28 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 .
29 Sasse , as it is generally known , is the oldest secondary school in the Cameroon Republic by a good ten years .
30 TVH , as it is generally known , was typified for me by a man called Alf Mignot , who died in 1987 in his early sixties .
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