Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the prevailing financial circumstances , the DES did not officially publish the Report until the end of 1977 , though inevitably its contents were widely known to interested parties by then . |
| 2 | In several advertisements by dealers I have noticed the following genera , which I have always thought were mostly known as houseplants : |
| 3 | Poor students at the university were long known as ‘ mealie students ’ because they took a sack of meal and salt lumps with them and had to make it last all term . |
| 4 | Because of their favourable prognosis , they were long known as pseudolymphomas , however , immunohistochemical methods have now shown that most of these tumours are monoclongla B cell proliferations . |
| 5 | The Action Committee office bearers were confident that the characters of those adults accused , and those of their children , as well as the sort of events that could and did occur in their community , were better known to them than to Orkney 's Social Work Department . |
| 6 | This " dark figure " is unknowable , but there is a clear enough indication that organisations of a type which would later become familiar as " trade unions " but were better known to their own time as workers ' " combinations " were well established and widespread among skilled workers in the eighteenth century . |
| 7 | is not generally known to those persons who are accustomed or would be likely to deal in those securities but which would if it were generally known to them be likely to materially affect the price of those securities . |
| 8 | ‘ Unpublished price sensitive information ’ is information which relates to specific matters relating to or of concern ( directly or indirectly ) to that company , that is to say it is not of a general nature relating to or of concern to that company and is not generally known to those persons who are accustomed or would be likely to deal in those securities but which if it were generally known to them would be likely to affect the price of those securities . |
| 9 | These soldiers were generally known as Brabançons , but sometimes as Navarrese or Basques or Germans , not so much to indicate their precise place of origin as to express the fact that they were foreigners and spoke a language which was not understood . |
| 10 | They did not know then , were not to know for many years , were never fully to understand what it was that held them together — a sense of being on the margins of English life , perhaps , a sense of being outsiders , looking in from a cold street through a lighted window into a warm lit room that later might prove to be their own ? |
| 11 | But , my Lord Mayor , Labour were not to know in the early eighties how popular the Tenants Right to Buy would be . |
| 12 | Details of the materials in the chapel were not known at the time the official report into the £60 million blaze was put together . |
| 13 | A , b , This classification assumes that the fossil groups are related to one or other of the Recent agnathans ( galeaspids were not known at this time ) . |
| 14 | Courtney 's accident happened on the very first lap when he was in the lead at Mather 's Cross between Coleraine and Portrush and he was taken to hospital although his injuries were not known at the course . |
| 15 | In 1990 , 11 per cent of female homicide victims were not known to their attackers , and experts believe these figures will increase . |
| 16 | God 's invasion plans and strategies of salvation were not known to them . |
| 17 | ‘ My son kept a diary … three weeks before he flew to Moscow he recorded that he met an Alan Millet … four days before he left he met again with Alan Millet … why now does this Alan Millet speak of our son as if he were not known to him ? |
| 18 | Users in this group were not known to be taking any drug other than cannabis ( though , like any drug user , they may have taken other drugs without official knowledge of this ) . |
| 19 | We consulted the acknowledged experts in the field , many of whom were not known to the general public ; and for the most part we did little more than synthesise their conclusions in a readily digestible fashion . |
| 20 | The ends for which the seeds , the natural causes of things , acted were not known to themselves but to God alone . |
| 21 | Thereafter , the fieldworkers were passed on from person to person within the communities ; thus , the informant groups were self-recruited in that the speakers were not known to the investigators beforehand . |
| 22 | The group were approached by two males who were not known to them , and the female was asked to enter the tent , and both youths took turns in entering the tent , where a serious sexual assault took place on the female . |
| 23 | After one year 26 per cent of patients had ceased contact with services and were not known to be resident in the area . |
| 24 | The names of the gold winners were not known until the judges ' scores , which had been sealed , were opened and added up on the night . |
| 25 | They were thus known by the name of ‘ enabling schemes ’ . |
| 26 | Both of them were already known for silences . |
| 27 | An account of anaphoric processing based on the idea that there are two broad classes of anaphoric expression was suggested by Sag and Hankamer ( 1984 ) , whose ideas were already known to , and tentatively endorsed by , Johnson-Laird ( 1983 ) in his most complete account of the mental models framework . |
| 28 | The two women closest in the world to Charles were already known to be the Queen and Camilla , whom Charles had readily confirmed was a trusted friend . |
| 29 | The descriptions are a mixture of quotations from texts which were already known at the time of writing , when Rahewin completed the work of Otto von Freising . |
| 30 | The two partners , so different in character that they were respectively known by their employees as ‘ Oil ’ ( Bridge ) and ‘ Vinegar ’ , worked tirelessly to place the business at the forefront of their trade . |