Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] known that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because if you do n't , ’ said Owen , ‘ I shall let it be generally known that Andrus has been giving money to the Moslems for them to use against Copts . ’ |
| 2 | If it were not known that pupil-dilation was intimately related to neurological functioning of the brain its absence in some cases of head injury might go unremarked ; but once its significance is appreciated , such a seemingly slight symptom assumes drastic importance . |
| 3 | It 's already known that women who take the contraceptive pill are much less likely to develop it . |
| 4 | He does n't usually do that ; at least , it 's not known that he does . |
| 5 | And it 's also known that breastmilk has a special value for babies most vulnerable to infection , for example those born ill or premature . |
| 6 | To the actress Joyce Carey in the crowded foyer of the Old Vic : ‘ But Joyce , it 's well known that Shakespeare sucked Bacon dry . ’ |
| 7 | It 's well known that the universe verse is infinite . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's well known that Maurice likes a night out but the media attention he gets in Britain makes it difficult for him to enjoy it . |
| 9 | This is an affect well known in some domesticated animals like sheep , it 's well known that if sheep are , if , if , if , if ewes are well fed just before they mate , they 're much more likely to er to twin than if they 're er not given extra food supplement and nowadays erm farmers wh wh who , who breed sheep for lambing er frequently feed , feed ewes a special diet just before er conception for that very reason , the rate of twinning increases . |
| 10 | I have a reputation for honesty and fair trading — and it 's well known that I do n't have any truck with shady deals , ’ she informed him bluntly . |
| 11 | But it 's now known that Mrs Law was last seen alive just after lunchtime on Sunday . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , it 's now known that two other people from the Central South region were among the one hundred and sixty seven passengers killed . |
| 13 | It 's now known that more than 100 people are H I V positive following treatment here . |
| 14 | They arrived on Christmas Eve 1924 , proving that high-quality electrical test recordings existed at the end of 1924 , although it is not known that any of these survive today . |
| 15 | Husameddin 's argument , moreover , ignores the facts that Shams al-Din is known to have been part of Molla Fenari 's name but not , so far as can be discovered , of that of his son and that the son was regularly referred to as Mehmed Sah whereas it is not known that Molla Fenari ever was . |
| 16 | It is widely known that there are harmful effects from inhalation of outfall from a lead works ; for children who ingest it by licking lead-painted toys ; and for families whose drinking water is supplied through lead pipes . |
| 17 | It is widely known that the new repository will run on AIX and OS/2 , but it may surprise many that the thing is also up under OS/400 as well as on Ultrix , HP-UX and Solaris and that IBM has funded development work internally for it to appear on these non-IBM versions . |
| 18 | However , it is widely known that only a small proportion of such qualifying mergers are referred , and further that vertical mergers are a small proportion of the total . |
| 19 | It is well known that many children in Romanian hospitals have been infected with HIV through reused needles , syringes and infected blood transfusions . |
| 20 | It is well known that they always develop their more satisfying choreographic ideas when working with a group of dancers whose abilities they know . |
| 21 | It is well known that only a great dancer-artist can suggest the development of the sixteen-year-old Aurora , happy at her birthday , into the dreamy figure the Prince meets in the woodland glade and on to her final entrance as a triumphant princess fully awake to her responsibilities as Queen-to-be . |
| 22 | It is well known that the personal characteristics of a participant observer affect their research practice ( see Hunt 1984 ; Warren 1988 ; Warren and Rasmussen 1977 ; Wax 1979 ) , and that being female brings its own problems in the field . |
| 23 | They have written that ‘ It is well known that the great Soviet pedagogue , A. S. Makarenko , succeeded in forming a genuine Soviet collective of charges only after a Komsomol organization was established in his colony . ’ |
| 24 | It is well known that trees grow by the addition of rings , usually ( though not always ) annually . |
| 25 | While it is well known that machair may extend as much as 2 km inland in South Uist , less well known is the altitude to which blown shell sand exerts an ecological influence : the dunes at Luskentyre Banks ( NG 0699 ) are up to 35 m high , while the presence of large amounts of wind-blown shell fragments is evident from the presence of charophytes in lochs on Tairaval ( NB 1135 ) ( Angus , unpublished NCC report ) and at Mangersta ( NB 0131 ) ( Biagi et al 1985 ) , both sites being more than 50 m above sea level . |
| 26 | It is well known that a type of osteoporosis , a demineralisation of the bone , occurs when vertebrates spend time in microgravity . |
| 27 | It is well known that he organized the transportation of Dürer 's Rosenkranzfest ( a painting full of Habsburg symbolism , including the portraits of Maximilian I and Pope Julius II ) across the Alps from Venice , with four bearers to hold it upright . |
| 28 | And it is well known that , being required to prepare designs for a useless and costly object by one of our leading nobility , long since deceased , one of princely fortune , but who had an extravagant passion for building , he purposely appealed to the son to advise his father to give the intention ’ . |
| 29 | It is well known that Pythagoras ' belief in the significance of numbers was supported by his alleged discovery , with the aid of a stringed instrument , that the concordant intervals of the musical scale correspond to simple numerical ratios . |
| 30 | It is well known that the Albanians , who predominate in Kosovo and in parts of western Macedonia , tend to have very large families , Such rapid rates of growth of population in areas of poverty and high unemployment are naturally a matter of great concern to the authorities . |