Example sentences of "they [was/were] [adv] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were thus known by the name of ‘ enabling schemes ’ . |
| 2 | They were well known at the Jade Cockatoo , for the seniors at Pinehurst were allowed to have tea in the town now and then . |
| 3 | They were well known in Shakespeare 's time , for in A Midsummer Night 's Dream , Titania remarks about a period of unseasonable weather : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They were certainly known during the European markets of the seventeenth century but came into disrepute in England with the collapse of the South Sea Bubble ( see Chapter 1 ) in 1720 . |