Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv] known " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had once given a few lessons to a nun at a convent not far from where I lived , so that I was slightly known there . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I was well known as the chief editor of the Black Papers on Education ( 1969–77 ) , supposedly traditional and right wing in their views of education . |
| 4 | And er I was well known if I might say and proud of this Michael . |
| 5 | Rowland Compliance Testing [ which was formerly known as Power Certification Limited ] has established a substantial portfolio of quality blue-chip customers throughout the country , and is poised for substantial growth . |
| 6 | Mary was posted to a notorious station in the Fens , called Sledgwick , which was universally known as HMS Sledgwick because it was practically under water and everyone wore gumboots and walked about on duckboards . |
| 7 | This fact , which was well known in his own lifetime , did not prevent his succeeding Kaunitz as Chancellor in 1792 . |
| 8 | He started on the play which was eventually known as The Family Reunion in early 1936 , having first completed " Burnt Norton " . |
| 9 | Some interesting pink Champagnes are made in this village which was once known for its long lived red wines . |
| 10 | Plotting the line on a map , he found that it passed straight through Westminster Abbey , the site of which was originally known as Thorney Island from a conspicuous mark : a hallowed clump of hawthorn . |
| 11 | Poor old Pengam Moors , the one-time Cardiff Airport which was originally known by the curious name of Splott , is also extinct and remembered only by a pub called The Old Airport . |
| 12 | Birlik , which was originally known as the Democratic Party of Uzbekistan , claimed 54,000 members at the end of last year . |
| 13 | About the year 1858 he introduced the steam-jacketed receiver which was subsequently known in the navy as ‘ Cowper 's Hot-Pot ’ . |
| 14 | Do you not think that almost regardless of the reply and whatever that reply contained , with what we now know with the benefit of hindsight about Liechtenstein , which was actually known by I M R O there 's not for the benefit of hindsight that was n't known at that time , should n't I M R O have refused immediately to license any organisation that was controlled out of Liechtenstein in those circumstances ? |
| 15 | ‘ Between 30 October 1984 and 9 January 1985 each of the first four plaintiffs entered into a mortgage debenture charging its assets to secure repayment of moneys advanced to it by the first defendant , which was then known as Johnson Matthey Bankers Ltd . |
| 16 | it is clear from the statement of claim that the er plaintiffs retained the defendants from about the ninth of September to act in relation to the purchase of this wine bar which was then known as er the plaintiffs were obtaining finance from the National Westminster Bank in order to purchase this business and the plaintiff Mr had been engaged in long standing discussions with his bank from the earlier part of nineteen eighty five with a view to er agreeing financing facilities for the purchase of the various opportunities that preven present themselves and er he will say and that he makes clear in his witness statement erm that he certainly had understood that from these negotiations the National Westminster Bank were prepared to provide the financing that he required to run this business . |
| 17 | The Maronites complained that areas of the country had fallen under Palestinian control , especially the Arkoub , which was now known as Fatahland . |
| 18 | It was acknowledged that dock identification was unsatisfactory but the identification of a person through a name which was only known by hearsay was almost equivalent to a dock identification . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Having booked herself in at a hotel where she was well known , she returned to the hospital and sat with her daughter throughout most of the evening . |
| 21 | But she was well known , whe was well known all over . |
| 22 | ‘ She was well known in Aspull and it had been said she had a heart of gold . ’ |
| 23 | Carol Clark 's double life , she was also known as Kate or Charlotte , has complicated the police hunt for her killer . |
| 24 | Mehetabel , or ‘ Hetty ’ as she was generally known , received the same education as her brothers , and is said to have been able to read Greek at the age of eight . |
| 25 | Old Mother Jacobsen — as she was affectionately known all over the island — was in her late nineties , and she was blind . |
| 26 | She paid close attention to the teaching of her assistants , and was always solicitous about the welfare of her students , among whom she was affectionately known as ‘ The Raisin' . |
| 27 | Venturous , or the " Big V " as she was affectionately known by all who served on her , was the Department 's most successful post-war cutter for both sea-going ability and success in revenue control . |
| 28 | A long term resident of the Bishop 's Castle area , she was widely known and respected . |
| 29 | Rixi , as she was now known , proved an invaluable asset : Austria won the Europeans that year and the next , then gained a stunning victory at the first Women 's World Championship in Budapest in 1937 . |
| 30 | It was Wilde who christened her the ‘ Sphinx ’ , the name by which she was thereafter known to her friends . |