Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] know that " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , some of the most memorable features of fieldwork in the Old World Tropics from Madagascar eastwards , leeches , are so little known that their behaviour towards animals other than humans is unrecorded . |
| 2 | Some of the features of alcoholism in its terminal phase are so well known that a cartoonist has only to draw a couple of lines for everyone to know that the subject is a " drunk " . |
| 3 | How else could it be so swiftly known that a prominent member of the Royal College of Acupuncturists , say , had been picked up during the night and pinched for drunk-driving ? |
| 4 | One is surprised to discover which should be more widely known that her abstract work preceded that of Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth by ten years or so . |
| 5 | Tabasco is so well known that it is to pepper sauces what Hoover is to vacuum cleaners . |
| 6 | It is so well known that women who smoke risk giving birth to underweight babies that the labels on cigarette packets in America caution that ‘ smoking may complicate pregnancy . ’ |
| 7 | The English love affair with Tuscany is so well known that in the last century hotel porters in Siena called all foreigners English , even if they were German or Russian . |
| 8 | It is less widely known that there was a comparable ( although much smaller ) dyeing industry in Ireland based on Nucella lapillus which seems to have been known of as far away as Minehead in Somerset ( Cole , 1685 ) . |
| 9 | But it is also well known that the so-called expert witness in court may be a hired gun , willing to testify to anything for a fee , or a crackpot whose unsupportable ideas are masked by an advanced degree — often from a respectable university . |
| 10 | However , it is also well known that social stereotyping of [ h ] -loss does not apply in Scotland , Ireland , North America and colonial Englishes generally , for the reason that [ h ] is stable in stressed syllables in these varieties ( although [ h ] -loss is found in English-based Creoles ) . |
| 11 | It is also well known that the sediments build up in the summer and tend to be removed again in the winter . |
| 12 | It is also well known that languages like Japanese and Tagalog have topic markers distinct from case markers . |
| 13 | It is now well known that distant galaxies are probably about 10 times farther away than Hubble inferred . |
| 14 | It is fairly well known that Martin bought the Swedish Levin Guitar factory in the 1970s and that Levin had ceased trading by the end of that decade . |
| 15 | It 's quite well known that Little Richard was one of David 's idols , but there 's a lot of other American people who interested David , as much from the image point of view as the music . ’ |
| 16 | It is quite well known that at Christmas British and German troops briefly fraternized and drank together in no-man's-land . |
| 17 | ‘ I think it 's pretty well known that some of the ones that are going to get a particularly close look are the ones I mentioned , either because they are not being competed in by a lot of people in a great many countries , or they are expensive , and so on . ’ |
| 18 | It is very well known that dreams often contain elements — visual or ideational — that can be identified as being part of the previous day 's experiment . |
| 19 | It was enough simply to know that otters were out there somewhere . |
| 20 | It was also well known that Mrs Thatcher preferred to have people buying their own private pension scheme ; here was an area in which the state might be rolled back . |
| 21 | In Ireland it was also generally known that the rays of the sun at winter solstice sunrise illuminated the chamber of the ancient mound at Newgrange . |