Example sentences of "[was/were] know in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the priests were known in Hebrew as the Kohanim — the Cohens — and it is this name ( which Leonard later signified in his poetry by references to his ‘ blood ’ ) , which exerted most influence on Leonard , primarily in his formative years , but throughout his career — consciously and otherwise . |
| 2 | Holes in the ground for preserving ice were known in Italy in 1580 , and Sir Francis Bacon died from a chill in 1626 after testing his theory that stuffing a chicken with ice would preserve it . |
| 3 | At the time the analysts and the client were somewhat concerned that it was not practicable to implement fully either of the FAOR technical solutions , as expectations had been raised about the final outcome before the implications of these solutions were known in any detail . |
| 4 | He saw this as a possible origin of the nymphs of the elements which were known in ancient times — the naiads in waterfalls , springs and streams , dryads in trees and woods , oreads in mountains and deserts , and nereids in the sea . |
| 5 | Boomerangs were known in the south of India , and many of the mythological themes of the Australian natives relate to those found in the oldest known sources of Central Asia . |
| 6 | Unaware that Henderson 's sales to Saddam were known in Whitehall , Customs investigators raided Matrix Churchill . |
| 7 | The languages of earth — English , Italian , Hindustani and Chinese particularly — were known in some variation everywhere , though it seemed the Autarch — who had come to power in the confusion following the failed Reconciliation — favoured English , which was the preferred linguistic currency almost everywhere now . |
| 8 | Both works were to be translated from Latin into the vernacular languages in the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries ; both were known in military circles ; and both may have had some influence on the formation of changing attitudes to leadership . |
| 9 | These bags were known in the district as Mac 's Packs . |
| 10 | Simone 's eyes were sparkling , and Alyssia said frigidly , ‘ I had no idea you were known in this part of the world . ’ |
| 11 | Franklin , who liked his beer , and Pam who was more witty than wise , were known in the Arden Conservative Club , where the slot machines never sleep , as ‘ lager and lime ’ . |
| 12 | Purseglove has argued that Indian crops were known in China 4000 BP and African ones in India and vice versa a thousand years later . |
| 13 | She nodded , thinking that if only one person was to know in 43 , nevertheless in this house surely several must ? |
| 14 | He was known in Italy as the ‘ King of the Joke ’ and had his greatest critical success in Ettore Scola 's film La Famiglia . |
| 15 | We now know much more about surviving hunters and gatherers than was known in Morgan 's day and , although sexual unions among them may in some cases be very unstable , in others they are not . |
| 16 | By contrast Engels 's position was that the family , as it was known in his time , had not always existed in that form , that marriage as it was known at that time had also not always existed . |
| 17 | Well-paid for his services to Gen Noriega , Harari was known in Panama as ‘ Mr Sixty Percent , ’ according to Panama 's former Ambassador to Tel Aviv , Mr Eduadro Herero Hassan , who was flown back to Panama this week by the US to help rebuild a new Panamanian security force . |
| 18 | Carol 's dancing and her sister Suzette 's acting provided the inspiration for the Minogue sisters — Danielle or Dannii as she was known in the clan was also showing signs of talent — and the pair loved nothing better than play acting at home . |
| 19 | * A small mound ( roughly ‘ T ’ -shaped ? ) of damp sand was made to raise the ball off the ground ( if required ) , for the first shot on every hole and a box of sand for this purpose was located on what was known in the earlier days as the teeing ground , but is now known as the tee , or tee box . |
| 20 | It was known in the village as the Island Area . |
| 21 | Little was known in English-speaking countries about the new synthetic drugs ( see Chapter 8 ) discovered in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s . |
| 22 | It was known in advance that the companies sampled planned for at least three years in the future , frequently for longer , and that the time between making a strategic decision and the final outcome was long . |
| 23 | The technique was known in Europe in classical times but was forgotten . |
| 24 | Lost-wax casting was known in the Middle East in antiquity and seems to have diffused from there . |
| 25 | The cromlech at Pentre Ifan in Wales was known in folklore as ‘ the womb of the goddess Ceridwen ’ and was used for initiations . |
| 26 | Thus practice and theory were often far apart , in this and in other ways , even in the classical feudalism , feudalism as it was known in the north of France between the ninth and the twelfth century . |
| 27 | Avenida Arriaga was known in former times as the Passéio Público , and there was a tradition of people meeting , talking and walking here . |
| 28 | This applies to a certain extent to the solution of the detailed stress distribution around a crack and until this was known in some detail it was not possible to predict what a crack would do when it met an inhomogeneity such as the interface between a fibre and a resin . |
| 29 | None of this was known in 1926 when Paneth and Peters attempted to join two hydrogen protons to make helium , as the discovery of the neutron only occurred in 1932 . |
| 30 | He was known in the West , he said , he was supported in his agony by many thousands , he was comforted by their distant communion . |