Example sentences of "little [was/were] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the early 1950s too little was known about rocket propulsion and missile performance for finite decisions to be taken in favour of either aircraft or missiles . |
| 2 | Until recently , little was known about the tiny and endearing Hector 's dolphin , found only in the coastal waters of New Zealand . |
| 3 | Very little was known about the type of work and the amount of time spent on farm work by the farmer 's wife so the questions in this section were aimed at trying to identify : ( a ) how important her role was ; ( b ) the level of her present skills ; ( c ) whether training could expand her contribution to the farm business ; and ( d ) whether training for the benefit of the farm as a whole could be conducted through women . |
| 4 | Little was known about the substance in those days , but this form of defence , relying mainly on the naivety of the jury , was met with the derision it deserved . |
| 5 | Very little was known about mucus at the time . |
| 6 | Very little was known about the origin of the pyrimidines and purines . |
| 7 | Most of the coastal details of these islands were fairly well known to the hydrographers of both the British and Dutch navies , but little was known about their inland geography . |
| 8 | In particular , most of the early Verkehrsberuhigung work had involved schemes that covered only a street or two with low traffic flows , so little was known about the benefits or drawbacks to the wider urban area . |
| 9 | Little was known about the requirements of certain species . |
| 10 | Realization of how little was known about the likely effects of this demographic change led to the production of the first substantial body of data in this country on the experience of ageing in industry and on the relationship of work capacity to ageing : a highly polemical debate received some empirical clothing . |
| 11 | I then went down to Athens , to the National Museum , and was very impressed by the great display of Cycladic material there , and also by how little was known about the Cyclades if one looked at the literature of the time . |
| 12 | She believed in fat babies and at the time I was born , during the war , little was known about nutrition or cholesterol , nor that heart attacks were preventable . |
| 13 | In fact , little was known about them . |
| 14 | In the early part of the twentieth century very little was known about the chronology of tribal art ( most of it was considered to be much older than it is ) , and the stylistic differences between the work of various regions had not been examined ; Guillaume himself included Oceanic work under the term tribal art , and felt that it could be extended to include Alaskan art as well . |
| 15 | Einstein spent most of his later years unsuccessfully searching for a unified theory , but the time was not ripe : there were partial theories for gravity and the electromagnetic force , but very little was known about the nuclear forces . |
| 16 | Little was known about the Algerian Hezbollah , although a group of that name had unsuccessfully applied for recognition as a political party in March 1990 . |
| 17 | Certainties about new education were few : little was known about differences of quality . |
| 18 | So extraordinary was this bird and so little was known about it , that previously naturalists had been divided as to whether it belonged to the vulture or the gallinaceous race . |
| 19 | Very little was known about these from actual remains until recent excavations at S. Giovenale by the Swedish expedition established plans from some foundations there . |
| 20 | Little was known about bacteria and viral infections , and they must have been hard to avoid without knowledge of modern hygiene standards , let alone the benefits of refrigeration and freezers . |
| 21 | Little was known about the products of many of these areas , and much research still needs to be done but Collecting Lustreware goes a long way to redressing the balance . |
| 22 | Last night , very little was known about what the three men had been doing . |
| 23 | In reporting what little was known about these discussions at the time , the Economist warned of ‘ the danger that some as yet unknown army officer , drumming his fingers in some provincial headquarters , will decide that enough is enough ’ ( 1 June 1968 ) . |
| 24 | We should remember that very little was known at that time about the ways in which the ovaries influence distant organs . |
| 25 | Much is known about the metal artefacts produced in the British Bronze Age , but until recently very little was known of the copper sources exploited ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 26 | Little was known of the microflora or invertebrate populations of the area . |
| 27 | But little was known of the nature and causation of mental disorder and so provision for treatment was minimal . |
| 28 | Little was known in English-speaking countries about the new synthetic drugs ( see Chapter 8 ) discovered in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s . |
| 29 | An earlier instruction to staff forbidding further publicity meant that little was known by press or public about this exhibition The art world condemned the decision as excessively cautious , suggesting an embarrassment about the subject of death which people never felt in previous centuries . |