Example sentences of "little [is] know [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The study — ‘ Pesticides , Chemicals and Public Health ’ argues that although the levels are rarely fatal , little is known about the risks to health from long term exposure .
2 Little is known of the relative efficacy and toxicity of different strains .
3 Furthermore , relatively little is known at present about the extent to which scientists change their type of work , and the precise nature of ( and reasons for ) moves between organisations , compared with movement within organisations , or internal mobility .
4 He 's one of the most famous names in fashion but little is known of the man himself .
5 Little is known of the general effects of oil on the distribution of small cetaceans .
6 The duchess apart , little is known of their lives or even what their connection was with this village , but they should have left us £3,000 a year in charities .
7 At some stage a nine-hole course also existed on Ewelme Common but little is known of it , and other courses are likely to have come and gone .
8 Little is known of this period , but the mill had become the property of Leonard Stanley Priory by 1456 .
9 Little is known of the activities at Pitts Mill ; presumably it was run in conjunction with its neighbour .
10 Little is known of the visit other than that Mozart appeared before the Bavarian Elector Maximilian III Joseph .
11 Little is known of eruptions there , but there may have been one in the last decade , since sets of aerial photographs of the island taken many years apart show some slight changes .
12 The McGuires had another son and daughter , Hugh and Jacobina , but little is known of them and it is presumed that they both died young .
13 However , very little is known of any deaf aristocrats prior to 1750 , but there were some in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries , a number of whom achieved political renown .
14 Little is known of the history of the tower , which is part of a late 13th-century fortified manor house , but the remarkable paintings — ranging from biblical subjects to scenes of everyday rural life — tell a fascinating story of their own .
15 Little is known of his early life , except that he was the son of a judge 's clerk , of upper-middle class background , and that the male members of the family were engaged in either the legal or ecclesiastical professions .
16 Little is known of the inhabitants of the old manor house with its interesting architecture in the centre of the village , but the oddly named Hanging Grimston is within the parish , and here the Bouchier family lived in what must have been a grand castle with cottages nearby , and owned much land .
17 Newbridge , for instance , is now only a farm near Pulborough , and very little is known of its foundation .
18 Little is known of the ‘ cottage countess ’ but there is no evidence of her surprise at seeing Burghley House , or her supposed decline under the aristocratic social pressures which Tennyson alludes to .
19 There is the added attraction that , since little is known of publishing in many places , items are not always recognised as rare or significant , and are therefore comparatively inexpensive .
20 Little is known of his early life except for his recollection that at the age of nine or ten he ‘ did so offend the Lord that He did scare and terrify me with dreadful visions ’ , and that he was greatly afflicted at that time with thoughts of the Day of Judgement .
21 Little is known of this strikingly beautiful femme-fatale , except that her contribution to early aviation reporting was considerable .
22 Little is known of Aenarion 's early life .
23 Little is known of their courtship but it is said that , for a brief time , they were happy .
24 Little is known of Aenarion 's quest to the Blighted Isle .
25 Relatively little is known of the first great temples , which were built between 2000 and 1900 BC and destroyed by earthquakes in 1700 BC , except that they stood on the same sites as the later temples .
26 LITTLE is known of the interdecadal variability in the thermohaline circulation of the world 's oceans , yet such knowledge is essential as a background to studies of the effects of natural and anthropogenic climate change .
27 These molecules are involved in low-affinity homophilic and/or heterophilic recognition , but little is known of the physical basis for these interactions .
28 Instead , they reflect how little is known of the demographic processes ( such as root mortality ) that control below-ground carbon and nutrient cycling , and the relationship between root demography and the soil environment .
29 Little is known of the ecological context of the afropithecin fossils , but while the best record is again from Maboko Island , there is some doubt about the ecological interpretation of this site .
30 Unfortunately , little is known of the south wing , but it has a very similar appearance to that of the north side and suffers from the disadvantage of facing north , which precludes any possibility of the best accommodation being situated there .
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