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

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1 The Korn/Ferry name is most widely known and publicly quoted of all search firms — Lester Korn is seen as the man who brought headhunting out into the open — and thus the firm can guarantee almost instant interest from potential candidates .
2 Tabasco is so well known that it is to pepper sauces what Hoover is to vacuum cleaners .
3 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 . ’
4 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 .
5 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 ) .
6 The composition of the lower continental crust is less well known but probably consists mainly of granulite , an intermediate to basic rock formed in very high pressure and temperature environments and containing mostly calcium-rich feldspars and pyroxene .
7 The story of Ostia is less generally known than that of Pompeii and Herculaneum .
8 Much of the above work is reasonably well known because the Magistrates ' Court is an open court .
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 also not known if spirits such as whisky also contain these byproducts of fermentation or whether they are removed during the process of distillation .
14 It is now well known that distant galaxies are probably about 10 times farther away than Hubble inferred .
15 The design of this study is now well known and has been analysed by other workers .
16 The policy , which is aimed primarily at larger clubs , is now widely known and there are many more similar projects in the pipeline .
17 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 .
18 It is quite well known that at Christmas British and German troops briefly fraternized and drank together in no-man's-land .
19 It is too soon to know if the initiative will touch off an Italian-style mop-up of Brazil 's mob .
20 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 .
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