Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [was/were] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the three carriers of hepatitis B surface antigen ( all positive for antibodies to hepatitis B e antigen ) one was a general practitioner 's receptionist and two were nurses , one of whom was known through antenatal screening to be a hepatitis B carrier . |
| 2 | Ironically , he was to be hanged for broadcasts most of which were known at once as comically improbable in their boasts of German victory . |
| 3 | Reformers often worked through sympathetic religious networks in the localities , the names of members of which were known from earlier years ; more important , petitions came increasingly from congregations and denominational organisations of an aroused dissent . |
| 4 | He was one of what were known as ‘ Daphne 's hoofers ’ . |
| 5 | Scarman was critical of some of the methods employed by police forces , especially the use of special patrol groups in ‘ saturation swamp 81 ’ which involved considerable police presence and the operation of what were known as the ‘ sus laws ’ under which people can be stopped and searched simply on suspicion of misdemeanours . |
| 6 | Back in the good old days Turkey used to be part of what was know as ‘ Asia Minor ’ , or the ‘ Near East ’ , to distinguish its differences from Europe . |
| 7 | For many , including myself , this meant looking at children 's early attempts at reading in the context of what was known about the strength of their urge to find meaning , about their acquisition of grammar and syntax , and about their language awareness . |
| 8 | Built entirely of black glass , it marked the beginning of what was known as Death Row , a stretch of downtown First Avenue where most of the big funeral parlours had their offices . |
| 9 | TDS.3 began development of what was known as the Rotachute in 1941 . |
| 10 | The architects were exponents of what was known as Arts and Crafts Gothic and they produced a graceful stone-built church with a nave , 105 feet long , side aisles and a hexagonal chancel with five lancet windows . |
| 11 | She was not yet prepared to believe herself incapable of what was known as a ‘ lasting relationship ’ . |
| 12 | She had read how the town formed a part of what was known as the West Bohemian Spa Triangle , the other two being a town called Karlovy Vary and another called Františkovy Láznë . |
| 13 | In view of the evidence given yesterday should there not be a full and frank ministerial statement — which should come from the Prime Minister — of what was known inside the Government at the time about the supergun affair ? |
| 14 | This strip had been laid out by the estate gardeners into what were known as Walks . |
| 15 | These went into what was known as the ‘ junk box ’ . |
| 16 | In the past this right was frequently exercised under what was known as the " case stated " procedure . |
| 17 | By looking at the present distribution of animals and plants , and by comparing this with what was known about geological changes in the past , the evolutionist could seek to explain how the populations of the earth 's various regions had been built up through successive migrations . |
| 18 | I enjoyed conversation classes , I enjoyed doing more advanced work with what was known as the Philologic Sixth , a small group of eighteen-year-old duds who were doing languages only because they were hopeless at science , but the endless business of ‘ drilling ’ the beginners bored me into stone . |
| 19 | Roland was now employed , part-time , in what was known as Blackadder 's ‘ Ash Factory ’ ( why not Ashram ? , |
| 20 | A pair of spotted woodpeckers nested in what was known as the Little Wood below the lake and when the nuts were ripe on the copper cob trees a nuthatch came up quite close to the house . |
| 21 | If , later on , he made rather too much of his lucky escape from one of Hitler 's flying bombs , describing the eerie cutting out of the engine noise seconds before it dropped , the blinding flash , the tall plume of smoke as it came to its final resting place in what was known as Bomb Alley — the route from bases in the Pas de Calais , via Kent to the capital — it was , perhaps , understandable . |
| 22 | Within a week of the signing of the peace treaty , in April 1895 , Russia , Germany and France had joined forces in what was known as the Triple ( Tripartite ) Intervention . |
| 23 | Agriculture was beginning to change dramatically as well and after two hurricanes which almost wiped out the flourishing egg industry many farms built more substantial hen houses out of concrete blocks and the poultry were kept inside all the time in what was known as deep litter houses . |
| 24 | For more than a week before the great day we were collecting anything that would burn and literally dozens of individual fires began taking shape in what was known amongst boys as ‘ The Crot ’ . |
| 25 | This brings us to the second general point : that women were not working in what were known as " skilled " occupations . |
| 26 | The antihistamines , which became well known late in the 1940s ( see Chapter 12 ) , turned out to have several properties which would not have been predicted from what was known about histamine . |
| 27 | From there they passed to a polishing room , and thence to what was known as No 3 position , where they were fitted to the actual coach . |
| 28 | It was a ritual that distressed Anna Essinger and her staff but , given the pressure to move the children out of the camp so that others could take their places , nobody was able to come up with a better alternative to what was known as ‘ the market ’ . |
| 29 | I was always terribly shy and I was sent to what were known as elocution lessons — to get me out of myself . |
| 30 | Formerly , the system of sub-sub-delegation of authorization ( from Parliament to the Secretary of State to SIB to SRO 's and RPB 's ) hinged on what was known as the principle of equivalence ie. the principle that the rules and codes of an SRO or RPB should afford investors protection at least equivalent to that provided by the SIB 's rules ( see Schedule 2 para 3 FSA 1986 before the new changes were introduced ) . |