Example sentences of "[indef pn] [is] know [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rip currents are still a subject of active research and by no means everything is known about them , in particular the generation of the cell circulation which feeds them . |
| 2 | Although a reasonable amount of material is available about the lives of these two men , nothing is known about their Muftiliks beyond the bare statement that they did hold the office ; and it is consequently impossible to make assumptions with any assurance about the nature of their Muftiliks . |
| 3 | Despite a reign of about fifty years — he died in 713 and was succeeded by his son , Aelfwald — almost nothing is known about him . |
| 4 | The answer , it seems , is that next to nothing is known about it . |
| 5 | ‘ Nothing is known about his associate in the vehicle , who remains unidentified . |
| 6 | Nothing is known about his activities until he was authorized , by Elizabeth I 's signet of 8 July 1563 , to prospect for minerals in England , which he did during that summer . |
| 7 | , John ( c. 1770– c. 1843 ) , merchant service master and Antarctic discoverer , was born c .1770 but nothing is known about his early life and education . |
| 8 | Nothing is known about his employment from 1815 to 1830 , when Messrs C. , H. , and G. Enderby proposed an Antarctic sealing voyage , and appointed him master of the brig Tula ( 150 tons ) , which was not a good sea boat , with the cutter Lively and twenty-nine men and boys in all . |
| 9 | Nothing is known about his early years and education . |
| 10 | , Samuel ( c. 1797–1848 ) , actor and comedian , is believed to have been born around 1797 , but nothing is known about his parentage or background . |
| 11 | Nothing is known about his early life , except that he graduated from the University of Seville with a bachelor 's degree in logic and philosophy . |
| 12 | We know that Wilson married , for his wife Mary helped him and continued the business for a time after his death , but nothing is known of her origins or ultimate fate . |
| 13 | Nothing is known of their breeding habits , but females are believed to be more robust than males . |
| 14 | Nothing is known of their breeding habits . |
| 15 | Nothing is known of its origins but it is engraved ‘ Reading 1892 ’ . |
| 16 | Nothing is known of its activities , but Vikings normally maintained themselves by raiding the country within a wide range of their base . |
| 17 | Nothing is known of them outside the Bible , but they were evidently a race of Goliaths . |
| 18 | Nothing is known of him until , at the age of fourteen , he took up a sort of apprenticeship with a widow near Lowestoft . |
| 19 | Nothing is known of him before 1742 when he was manager of a cotton-mill in Northampton , and took a leading part in the intellectual life of the town , as a member of the Philosophical Society and a lecturer on scientific subjects . |
| 20 | Donald is reputed to have fled to the ( Western ) Isles , and nothing is known of him during the reigns of Macbeth and Malcolm III . |
| 21 | Nothing is known of his background , other than that he was the son of John Eckford and Janet Black . |
| 22 | Almost nothing is known of his family , childhood , or early education except that his father was private messenger to George IV and William IV , and that he had one sister and two brothers . |
| 23 | Nothing is known of his father . |
| 24 | , George ( 1631–1711 ) , chemist , lacked , by his own account , ‘ the great blessings of academical education ’ , save what he had ‘ fetched out of the fire ’ in his laboratory , and virtually nothing is known of his origins . |
| 25 | The title of master was accorded him , but nothing is known of his education . |
| 26 | Nothing is known of his early life , but it is clear that he acquired practical experience of chemistry and engineering . |
| 27 | Nothing is known of his early education . |
| 28 | Nothing is known of his education except that he did not lay claim to any degree . |
| 29 | Almost nothing is known of his family life , but there were fourteen people with the name Leftwich buried in three graves in Kensal Green cemetery between 1841 and 1904 , seven of them , including William , in the same grave between 1841 and 1851 . |
| 30 | Nothing is known of his early life except that his background was in the building trades — in 1724 he was described as a bricklayer , and later as a carpenter — but by the mid-1720s he had established two connections which brought him a place amongst the innermost circles of English Palladianism . |