Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] known [conj] " in BNC.

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1 From there she could have travelled to France or Belgium but it is not known whether she boarded a ferry .
2 It is not known whether all the material will be permanently exhibited , because South Cambridgeshire District is one of the few local authorities in Britain not to have a local museum .
3 It is not known whether there will be a full archaeological investigation of the entire site , or even of a large part of it ; the excavation ends today .
4 Only a three-yard stretch of the theatre has been unearthed , and it is not known whether any more will be excavated .
5 The police have improved both their procedures and their training , but it is not known whether social attitudes in general have changed greatly .
6 It is not known whether the original breeding arose from mutation or selection , or , some say , by crossbreeding with perhaps a French breed or the Devon .
7 It is not known whether or not he ever returned to visit his mother during the first few years but it is certainly true that , latterly , he was not back in the county for many years .
8 Firstly , it is inadvisable to take remedies consisting of mixtures as no homoeopathic provings have been done on mixtures and it is not known whether the effects of these are different from the effects of their individual components .
9 But because the case was heard in private it is not known whether the teenager is returning to her mother or remaining with her 18-year-old boyfriend 's family .
10 It is not known whether the Minoans had any concept of reward or retribution in the afterlife , though they seem to have believed that the human soul survived death .
11 It is not known whether Lady Tynte investigated just what had happened to the bird 's genitalia but subsequent studies of female pheasants showing similar transvestite tendencies revealed that only sexual differences developing at or after puberty were affected and that the reproductive organs themselves remained unaltered ( Yarrell , 1827 ) .
12 The Greek authorities made no effort , indeed it is not known whether they had the legal authority , to allow the post mortem examination to take place before the body was released , despite the scarcity of important evidence in a case of this kind .
13 But it is not known whether TCR- β gene rearrangement or expression is required for such a transition , and no information is yet available on a role for TCR- α gene rearrangement or expression .
14 It is not known whether positive identifications have been obtained .
15 Perforated discs ( bi ) ( fig. 14 ) and the afore-mentioned zong came to designate heaven and earth , but it is not known whether this was their original meaning .
16 North American Indians , Polynesian and Micronesian Pacific islanders , Australian Aborigines , and Asian Indians are usually considered in these terms , but it is not known whether all human populations previously subject to severe ‘ feast and famine ’ conditions have a thrifty genotype .
17 The differential fee for night visits is intended to discourage general practitioners from using deputising services , but it is not known whether it has had this effect .
18 Editor , — Fritz H Schröder rightly emphasises that it is not known whether treatment of early prostatic cancer is beneficial or whether screening for the disease offers any advantage .
19 The first entry in the book ( it is not known whether this is the first book ) is " Killerow , July 17th 1718 .
20 The first entry in the book ( it is not known whether this is the first book ) is " Killerow , July 17th 1718 .
21 It is not known whether Nucella shows a similar pattern of behaviour , but the two genera are very similar in many other respects .
22 It is not known whether A " .
23 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 .
24 It is not known whether Acca 's expulsion was connected with the temporary deposition of Ceolwulf or with his subsequent restoration in the same year , or whether it was a totally unrelated crisis .
25 It is not known whether Flaubear ever ate his namesake .
26 It is not known whether addictive disease is one disease that has different drugs or behaviours of choice according to each individual sufferer or group of sufferers or whether these groups correspond to one or another of a range of addictive diseases .
27 Consequently , it is not known whether the ideal recommendation to any sufferer from any addictive disease of any kind is that he or she should be abstinent from all potentially addictive substances and behaviours .
28 It is not known whether they had any children .
29 In particular it is not known whether they have been formed in relation to present sea level , in very much the same way as it is not known whether the wavecut platform round Britain was formed entirely in relation to present sea level .
30 In particular it is not known whether they have been formed in relation to present sea level , in very much the same way as it is not known whether the wavecut platform round Britain was formed entirely in relation to present sea level .
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