Example sentences of "[was/were] well know [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the inland wonders of the North American continent were well known to hunters and fishermen , it was the railroad which brought areas of the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada within reach of people of more moderate means . |
| 2 | All sorts of additional class niceties were well known to travellers , even if they were not hallowed by signposts . |
| 3 | Her reservations about the senior civil service as a whole were well known in advance . |
| 4 | They were well known in Shakespeare 's time , for in A Midsummer Night 's Dream , Titania remarks about a period of unseasonable weather : |
| 5 | Key figures in the early evolution of the corporations included Nigel Broackes , Chairman of the London Docklands Development Corporation ( LDDC ) , and Basil Bean , Chief Executive of the Merseyside Development Corporation ( MDC ) , who were well known within City and market institutions . |
| 6 | Roy Bradford who had been a member of the Executive stood as an Ulster Unionist in East Belfast but without the support of UUUC , and Tom Conaty who was well known as Chairmen of the Central Citizens Defence Committee ( CCDC ) stood as an Independent in West Belfast and identified himself as a Catholic representative . |
| 7 | Mrs. Dolman was well known to Mum through the Mothers ' Union , the only son Roger was a Standard Seven boy and he had four younger sisters including one who was about a year old . |
| 8 | The tight-lipped , sandy-haired man holding out his hand was well known to Delaney . |
| 9 | Una Marson , the Jamaican poet , had worked with Orwell , and was well known to West Indian listeners . |
| 10 | George Garratt was a sparkling outside-right who hailed from Newcastle and came to the Palace in the summer of 1908 from West Bromwich Albion , after formerly playing with Aston Villa ( where , of course , he was well known to Edmund Goodman ) and Plymouth Argyle . |
| 11 | She told Vanity Fair that it was well known in Washington that President Bush had had an extra-marital affair . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ She was well known in Aspull and it had been said she had a heart of gold . ’ |
| 14 | The story of the twins was well known in Fleet Street and it was really only a matter of hours , or at best days , before a newspaper decided to cash in on it . |
| 15 | It was well known in college that , barring some accident , Mr de Chavigny would take a First in his PPE Finals . |
| 16 | Willie Park was well known in golfing circles . |
| 17 | He was well known in Hochhauser and several times they were stopped and she was introduced to yet another friend , another business or civic colleague . |