Example sentences of "was [adv] well know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , as he wrote in his diary : ‘ Muhammed bin Tughluk was especially well known in his generosity to foreigners for he preferred them to the peoples of India . |
| 2 | However , up to the time of his partnership agreement with Scott , he had only completed approximately ten buildings , and was perhaps better known as a writer and administrator . |
| 3 | Stuart Errington was perhaps better known as Chief Executive and Chairman of Mercantile Credit ( and at different periods Chairman of the Finance Houses Association and the Equipment Leasing Association ) , but is now Chairman of the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux . |
| 4 | That part of Parma , around Borgo delle Colonne , was apparently well known for its brothels , and I often used to see heavily made-up women in tight skirts and high-heeled shoes decorated with silver stars parading up and down ; I assume now that they were what the Parmigiani used to refer to as putane , whores . |
| 5 | Lassus 's church music was extremely well known in France where his works were published from 1564 onward by Le Roy and Ballard . |
| 6 | A man like Richard Hamilton , for instance , who 's now pretty well known in this country , was much better known on the Continent of Europe and in America , in Switzerland , in Germany , in Northern Italy — Milan particularly — much better known there than he was for decades . |
| 7 | Hobson served first with the Eastern Association regiment of Charles Fleetwood [ q.v. ] , becoming a captain , and was soon well known for preaching wherever he went . |
| 8 | He became more and more depressed , and sought consolation in the local pub , where he was soon well known as a talkative character . |
| 9 | To complicate matters further Israel was using an intermediary , an Iranian businessman called Manucher Ghorbanifar , who was already well known to American intelligence for having fabricated tales . |
| 10 | This passage was already well known to Ash scholars and had been extensively quoted . |
| 11 | The hippocampus was already well known to be a structure which , in humans and non-human mammals alike , was in some way involved with memory . |
| 12 | Roger Fenton was immensely well known in his time for his landscapes and still lifes . |
| 13 | Roger Fenton was immensely well known in his time for his landscapes and still lifes . |
| 14 | And although the Frankish nation was reasonably well known to the Roman emperors in the fourth century , its origins are equally hidden in myth . |
| 15 | ‘ There was every reason for me to suspect that the present was just such a case : the medical cause of the death was perfectly well known to the family — indeed I had sent them a copy of the pathologist 's report . |
| 16 | The arrival of the carrack and the news of her betrothal was now well known in the barony , and the valedictory Mass said for her in the church of St James in Dingle was attended by the town Sovereign and the local dignitaries and as many of the working folk of Dingle and the surrounding villages as could find kneeling space in the church . |
| 17 | A director of Courtaulds Textiles , he was equally well known in Courtaulds , where he worked for 25 years before the textiles demerger in 1990 . |
| 18 | At the time Woodchester Mill was particularly well known for the production of Superfine Saxony Broadcloth . |
| 19 | Cos I I thought the the pit was quite well known for being a poor poor payer . |
| 20 | Erm this guy that I was working for h he 's er he he was quite well known for it in the area . |
| 21 | On 5 September 1981 , they captured two young boys , the son and the nephew of a woman who was very well known for her work with ASUTRAMES . |
| 22 | He was very well known in the area . |
| 23 | Father Bob Spence , from St Augustine 's , said : ‘ Sister Paula was very well known in Darlington . |