Example sentences of "[noun] were know to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those characteristics were known to that keeper or were at any time known to a person who at that time had charge of the animal as that keeper 's servant or , where that keeper is the head of a household , were known to another keeper of the animal who is a member of that household and under the age of sixteen . ’ |
| 2 | The sandstone rocks along its western side were known to be porous , but the engineers predicted that the pores would be blocked by silt . |
| 3 | ( It is interesting to note that freshwater pearls were known to the Chinese by the beginning of the first millennium B.C. ) |
| 4 | As Clarke and Morrison discuss , their data are comparable with other studies in Fiji : such losses were known to be occurring more than 20 years ago but went unheeded in the wake of development . |
| 5 | By late July about 20 dissidents were known to be in detention , several ( including Matiba and Rubia ) under security legislation which allowed for detention without charge for up to 14 days or longer . |
| 6 | Samuel , Dorothy Perkins and C and J Clark Shoes were known to be among the stores which signed up . |
| 7 | Parts of Lyppard Grange at Warndon in Worcester were known to be derelict , semi-ruinous and dangerous 2 years ago . |
| 8 | Eight thousand miners were known to be in Yanomami territory in 1989 , when they constructed a hundred airstrips to ferry in fuel , food and mining equipment . |
| 9 | Former headmen were known to be important organizers of the illicit trade in stolen cattle . |
| 10 | Hu Yaobang , General Secretary of the Communist Party , and Premier Zhao Ziyang were known to be enthusiastic about pressing ahead with further restructuring of the economy and initiating change in other areas of Chinese society . |
| 11 | Nurse Sharon Hill died when the party of tourists she was with came under fire in an area where terrorists were known to be active . |
| 12 | Suspect food was masked in a meal in which all other constituents were known to be safe . |
| 13 | This highlights another paradox of Soviet experience — the fact that the main elements of the growing economic crisis were known to Soviet officials and Western specialists long before they became part of the public political agenda on either side of the iron curtain . |
| 14 | Results obtained by experimenters whose aims were known to their subjects are mistrusted . |
| 15 | Neither the authorship nor the commission were known to Sotheby 's then , and it too had a similarly low estimate . |
| 16 | Firstly , the information about price and publication date often proves to be inaccurate when the books appear , because of their inclusion in a catalogue before the final details were known to the publishers themselves . |
| 17 | Only seventy people were known to the Inland Revenue to keep more than £6,000 net . |
| 18 | Furthermore , Sica believed that the direction of organized crime was in the hands of no more than 17 men whose names were known to the authorities , and that if those individuals could be convicted the Mafia would collapse . |
| 19 | The reason for their exclusion , despite the government 's professed desire for parent power , was that parents and governing bodies were known to be likely to reject opting out of the ILEA . |
| 20 | Also , 94% of deaths from cancers known to the registry were known to the clinic . |
| 21 | If patients were known to be moving away a letter detailing their surveillance history was sent to their doctor or next supervising consultant . |
| 22 | Most of the fertility decline was achieved with coitus interruptus and the use of contraceptive vaginal sponges with spermicides such as vinegar , alum , or lemon , together with illegal abortion , whose practitioners were known to every working-class street . |
| 23 | Certainly the Abbey were known to be large landowners in the area . |
| 24 | One can only guess who these earliest settlers may have been , but the existence of Norse as well as Gaelic place-names suggests that the islands were known to the Vikings . |
| 25 | Seven hundred and sixty individual opioid users were known to these five agencies in 1985–6 , compared with 1,135 in 1984–5 ( see Table 3.3 ) . |
| 26 | Russia had already put under its jurisdiction border troops in Tajikistan , and Tajik rebel forces were known to be receiving weaponry via this route . |
| 27 | About 1,500,000 Soviet servicemen were known to be stationed on Ukrainian territory , and 42 per cent of officers in the Soviet Army were of Ukrainian origin . |
| 28 | O'Neill 's suspect views were known to many unionists and the conservatives did not have to wait for the fruits of O'Neillism , however timid they may have been . |
| 29 | Not all the adjectives were known to Leon , but the drift was clear . |
| 30 | Much effort would be saved if these were more uniform or if , at least , there were core hours when all CABx were known to be open . |