Example sentences of "was well know " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all SHE was the newcomer , and HE had starred alongside Michael J Fox in Bright Lights , Big City , and was better known in the movie-world . |
| 2 | However , Joseph Hepworth was better known as the editor of the British Deaf Times , which he was for some years up to his death . |
| 3 | Arthur Wilson was better known to thousands , perhaps millions , of his countrymen in Britain and Ireland as ‘ Faed ’ , the pen-name by which he contributed hundreds of articles on cycling to cycling magazines , including his own , and published books on the sport . |
| 4 | Harry ( as he was better known ) Sampson was born in Hallam , Sheffield on March 3 , 1813 . |
| 5 | He was better known as a spirited champion of atheism , so many people do not realize that he believed in God until he was eighteen . |
| 6 | Sometimes appearing as a beautiful horse , saddled ready to ride , Lutin was better known as a hearth sprite . |
| 7 | As god of the harbour , Janus was better known as Portunus . |
| 8 | But his 1775 candidate is well known — indeed she was better known and more celebrated after death than at any other time in her existence . |
| 9 | His voice was better known than that of almost any other public figure apart from Churchill and the characters of Tommy Handley 's ITMA . |
| 10 | ‘ Sting ’ , as Sumner was better known to the record-buying public , had been signed to Virgin music publishing as a complete unknown in 1976 . |
| 11 | and myself or as he was better known , came through B Seventeen Transition School at in Florida together and where the crews were formed so that the names in the Army of course are worked alphabetically , so everybody on my crew is trained with everybody on crew and their last name is just ahead erm in the alphabetic in the class that they were in , so that my navigator came from the same school , the same navigation class as . |
| 12 | Later still he was well known for his work in education . |
| 13 | In 1947 he was well known as one of the authors — in fact he was the chairman of the group and the principal author and the person in charge of publication — of a report to the Archbishop of Canterbury , now Geoffrey Fisher , on the nature of Catholicity . |
| 14 | And it was well known , too — and there was an element of guilt here — that East Germany was West Germany 's dustbin for toxic and other wastes and plain rubbish . |
| 15 | It was well known that the foreman and the shop steward in question were always in dispute , and it appeared to the majority that the foreman had , in fact , set him up to get rid of him and to settle an old account . |
| 16 | I knew the Mozarteum Orchestra because I had played with them as a pianist , and I was well known in Salzburg , so we had no difficulty in selling tickets . |
| 17 | It was well known — except apparently to Bromley , Brown and Davenport , who looked hopelessly puzzled — that Rozanov had survived his ordeal in a psikhushka partly by developing shamanistic powers . |
| 18 | According to Brian Sewell , art critic of the Evening Standard , it was well known that the Royal Collection had once contained a number of pornographic drawings by Leonardo . |
| 19 | She told Vanity Fair that it was well known in Washington that President Bush had had an extra-marital affair . |
| 20 | Richard Baxter 's view that it was advantageous for a pastor to be celibate in order to give himself fully to the work of the ministry was well known . |
| 21 | Willie Park was well known in golfing circles . |
| 22 | While Leapor may have felt embarrassed and withdrawn following her return from Edgcote , she was well known , even admired , for her writing in the area of her home . |
| 23 | But then Mrs Lawler came from a ‘ good ’ background , while it was well known that Lawler was an entirely self-made man . |
| 24 | At different times , the town was well known for its stocking frame knitters , the substantial brick works at the Mythe , as well as , during the 19th century , its large brewery , originally founded by David Jones , and later taken over by Blizard and Colman . |
| 25 | Ethel May was well known and well liked , which stood her well when she was forced to support the family single-handedly , by opening a beauty shop in her own home . |
| 26 | In addition to the sheep and wool market , Hawkshead was well known for its cattle market . |
| 27 | His liking for Israel was well known . |
| 28 | This school had enjoyed a brief period of success and national distinction in the first decade of the sixteenth century under the Mastership of John Stanbridge , who was well known when he migrated north from Oxford and whose Grammar was prescribed in the statutes of Manchester Grammar School . |
| 29 | Una Marson , the Jamaican poet , had worked with Orwell , and was well known to West Indian listeners . |
| 30 | In or about February 1983 , I received a message via my branch director that the deputy Director-General of MI5 was prepared to consider favourably an application from me for a telephone intercept on a member of the Communist Party within C.N.D. John Cox , a Vice-President of C.N.D. , was selected since he was well known as a member of the Communist Party and had been involved in C.N.D. practically since its inception . |