Example sentences of "was know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We performed additional analyses restricted to subjects whose history of smoking was known at baseline . |
| 32 | It was known at Cadogan 's that she had once fallen from a horse while out hunting and had broken her collarbone , but continued to follow the hounds for the rest of the day until she collapsed as they ran the fox to earth . |
| 33 | Every evening I had tea with the friend or two with whom I had arranged to mess for the " half " , as a term was known at Eton . |
| 34 | He had been employed in the 1960s by the firm , which was known at the time as Maranite Ltd , when asbestos fibre was used to make boards for doors for the shipbuilding industry . |
| 35 | It was known at the time that there was going to be opposition to them and it was an absolute recipe for debate after debate , council meeting after council meeting , committee meeting after committee meeting . |
| 36 | Just as Sgt Wilson 's thesis was channelled to me because I was known to be interested in research , so many police research departments now get allocated the task of reading the essays submitted by sergeants and inspectors for NEBS or DMS qualifications . |
| 37 | Immensely learned about all aspects of modern Irish life , she knew almost everybody and was known to them . |
| 38 | HER contacts book was known to be extensive , but who would have thought Cynthia Payne 's network stretched to Austin , Texas . |
| 39 | The search for soccer stories occupied a new breed of journalist — men like Alan Hoby , the self-styled ‘ Man Who Knows ’ , or the ‘ Man Who Knows F — All ’ as he was known to some of his readers . |
| 40 | Uncle Dickie , as he was known to the whole family , was a dynamic , tyrannical figure , full of energy , drive and ambition , who aroused strong passions in everyone who came into contact with him . |
| 41 | But behind these was known to be God 's Enemy variously named as ‘ Satan , the devil , ( a false accuser , slanderer , calumniator , ) the evil one , the ruler of this world , the prince of the power of the air , Belial , Beelzebub , the god of this world , the destroyer , a murderer from the beginning and the enemy . ’ |
| 42 | She was known to all in the French Quarter for her good looks , her own hard-luck story ( two marriages , two troubled kids , a problem with drink ) and the soft spot she had for the hard-luck stories of others , poets in particular . |
| 43 | In 1981 , when he was known to be seriously ill , Henry Fonda was voted Best Actor for On Golden Pond : his daughter and ( co-star ) Jane picked up the Oscar for him , and he died just five months later . |
| 44 | With that as its dominant posture , particular schemes could fail and it would still retain and perhaps even enhance its support , if it could claim that it pursued a course which was known to be difficult but which was still the ideologically sound thing to do . |
| 45 | The fact that she was known to be on a special complex carbohydrate diet designed to help her regain weight did n't help matters . |
| 46 | A speaker who asked questions expecting the answer ‘ True ’ sometimes incorporated an elaborated irony by which he attacked the revolution for its failure to uphold principles and policies to which he was , and was known to be , utterly opposed . |
| 47 | In 1945 , after sharing with Chain and Florey the Nobel prize for physiology and medicine , Fleming , in a speech given in Lyon , paid generous tribute to the work of Duchesne , which by then was known to him . |
| 48 | One kind of nucleic acid , DNA or deoxyribosenucleic acid , was known to be present in chromosomes , and hardly anywhere else . |
| 49 | ‘ The man , who was known to the police , was one of the knockers they 'd been keeping an eye on . |
| 50 | The assault started at 9pm on Tuesday night when a man , who was known to the victim , called at her flat , raped her and carried out what police described as ‘ a serious sexual assault ’ . |
| 51 | The aircraft was known to the German Air Force , or Reichsluftfahrtminsterium for short , as HE 100 D , since the appellation ‘ 113 ’ was considered unlucky . |
| 52 | ( This is not the present ladies ' room but is believed to have been on the first floor of the main clubhouse where it was known to be in the 1940 's at least ) . |
| 53 | He was known to be ‘ worried about Marcus ’ , but Franca had not asked him exactly what the worry was . |
| 54 | We had assumed that their affair would in some way be a violent one , because O was known to be violent , and because Boy made you feel strange when he gave himself away to you , a strangeness , and a feeling that you always wanted more , that often came out as violence . |
| 55 | Long before the sulphonamides were used as medicines , quinine was known to be a specific drug against malaria . |
| 56 | Malaria was known to be associated with marshes : it was often called marsh fever , but the connection was not understood until certain mosquitoes were recognized as carriers of the disease and as alternative hosts of plasmodia . |
| 57 | The first use of tobacco is also unrecorded , but the plant was known to American Indians and was brought to Europe in 1558 by Spanish explorers . |
| 58 | The overall loss of reading time , and even the loss of the reading habit as it was known to earlier generations , should not be underestimated . |
| 59 | This instrument was known to Ptolemy in the second century AD , and — the underlying mathematical theory of stereographic projection can be traced back at least to Ptolemy 's great predecessor Hipparchus ( second century BC ) . |
| 60 | The largest of them , Krakatoa , was known to be about nine kilometres across from north to south and the British Admiralty charts showed it to consist of several volcanic cones arranged roughly in a line . |